Tag: 30 days

Thirtydays

No snooze

So day two of no snooze is on the books!

In the past, I was setting my alarm for 6 a.m. Pushing the snooze until 7 a.m. Sometimes not getting out of bed until 7:15 a.m. Mind you I need to leave the house by 7:50 a.m. at the latest. So thirty-five minutes to let the dogs out, feed them, make a green drink, take a shower, get dressed, make up my face and let the dogs out again. This schedule makes for a slightly stressful morning lol. So, Tuesday, June 1st, I changed my routine. I set my alarm for 6:30 a.m., unchecked the snooze feature on my phone and crossed my fingers. I also sleep with a noise app on my phone. I set it to fade out at 5:00 a.m.

Did it work? Yes! I actually woke up at 6 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. It gave me time to lay in bed and plan my day.

I know that’s only two days but I am semi confident lol.

Wish me luck 🍀🤞🏽

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Green drinking

Wow, this thirtydays has to be THE most boring of them all lol. I have been drinking a green drink every morning before work but none on the weekends. I did add some to the Ingredient list. Ground hemp seeds, ground flax and ground chia seeds. I tried to add a banana but that was terrible. So was adding blueberries. I guess I’m not a fruit smoothie drinker. The major task has been getting up with enough time to make one. That means less snoozing and more getting out of bed lol. With that, I have my next thirtydays. No snooze. So far, this morning I was up on the first buzz. I will still continue to purge the unwanted stuff in my house. I took two more bags to Salvation Army. That is such a liberating feeling. With every bag that leaves the house I feel a little bit more organized and now with fire season in effect, there will be more donations less burning stuff lol. Not that I burn everything. Just the garbage.

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The Purge

Day? What happened? Where did April go?

The purge could take much longer than expected lol. It has really been an eye opener as to how much stuff I have. I’m still only on the second room of the house. The guest bedroom. It’s got a futon and closet full of stuff. Lots of empty boxes. Boxes for things that I’ve purchased and for whatever reason kept the box that it came in. Why? I guess if it breaks I can return it within the warranty period? Maybe keep the box to sell it later? Regardless of those reasons I have a bunch of boxes that will be going to the dump. They are way older than thirty days. Months or could be years probably lol.

The other thing I’m working on in that room? Photos. Old photo albums of trips taken with a bunch of landscape pictures along with some with people pics in them. I decided to take out all the people pictures and toss the rest. I will still need to go through all the people photos and sort them out but it consolidated them to one small box. It would be awesome to convert them to digital someday. I have to say, I really like the pictures that have the date stamped on them. It’s not like the digital photos that you can tell when it was taken. I also have a thing about people pictures. I can’t throw them out. That’s why they are in that box lol. Even if they are out of focus, ripped or of people I don’t know. That also goes for digital pics too but at least now the cloud will tell me I’m running out of space. It makes me go in and delete a few. End goal would be one or two albums with dates on the pictures and maybe where they were taken.

I took another load to Salvation Army. They will probably know me by name soon lol.

For my next thirtydays I will continue on with the purge and add in a green drink every morning. For those of you who are wondering, my green drinks are not fancy. I buy the bag of Power Greens at Costco and throw it into the freezer. It has organic baby chard, baby spinach and baby kale. It’s really the only way I’m going to get any green nutrition lol. Once they are frozen I smash them to bits. They are much easier to add to the blender that way. I add some flax seeds and chia seeds into orange juice or coconut water and blend them up. I could probably add something else but I’ve been doing it before I go to work and unless I start getting up when the alarm goes off there’s not much time for creativity 😂 that could be the next thirtydays thing. No snooze lol. That would be brutal.

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The Purge.

Day fifteen already! I have gotten rid of six bags of clothing and miscellaneous. All taken to Salvation Army. Drop off with them is super simple. I pull up, put the bags in a shopping cart and they take them away. Almost magic. Not so easy at Goodwill. They make you sort you stuff into bins. So that means tearing open the bags and sorting it out. Any small stuff at the bottom gets dumped in and potentially lost.

I have only tackled one room and my closet. While looking through all the stuff I have accumulated I come to realize that its’ worth is not in the price that I paid for it but the space it’s actually taking up. Realistically I could sell it on eBay or Mercari but I would actually have to do it. There is a ton of stuff that I could sell but I need to be honest with myself. Would I or will I store it for another 20 years and make my kids deal with it lol.

That’s one of my nightmares. Dying unexpectedly and leaving a giant house full of stuff. I don’t worry about dying. Just the stuff I leave behind.

Well, let’s move on from that morbid piece of information.

This thirtydays may take a couple of months lol.

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Thirtydays #3 Shop small

Well I’m almost finished with my third thirtydays. Shopping small. I guess I should define what that means to me. Shopping small for me is shopping local. While in Maui I did go to Costco to get some of the food staples but that puts the locals to work. The rest of the shopping was at the small shops. I loved walking along the boardwalk in the historic district of Lahaina and down the street from our Airbnb in Kihei. I know some might consider these tourist traps but well I was a tourist lol. Some of those stores you could get lost in. Not because of their size but the amount of merchandise there was to see and touch….oops sorry Krystal lol. Good thing they all had hand sanitizer going in and out. My favorite find was the quilt blocks that were hand cut from Aloha shirts. Awesome! They did all the hard work for me.

I also consider shave ice a shopping item. Ululani’s Hawaiian Shave Ice was the best. Ice cream in the center with shave ice on top. Then you choose your flavor toppings and then add the fresh mochi and haupia cream. Yum!

I love how this table has holes for the shave ice cup!

I went to a few craft/farmers markets. This is what lead to the problem of packing it all home. Hahaha. Every. Single. Trip. Oh well.

Which brings me to my next thirtydays. Spring has sprung and I am in need of a little spring cleaning. So my goal for April is to get the house cleaned out, room by room. No, I’m not going all Marie Kondo and touching everything while asking myself if the item brings me joy. 🤣 I will be looking at it, determining when I last touched it and tossing it if applicable. I’m thinking that will be much less time consuming.

Fingers crossed for April 1st😁

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No candy/chocolate

I made it. Thirty days with no candy or chocolate. Well technically 28 days lol. It was tough. Mainly because I am a total junkie when it comes to candy and chocolate. I still allowed myself sugar in my diet. I don’t know if I could completey cut sugar out but who knows. That may be my next thirtydays. Probably not the immediate next. I want to enjoy my vacation 😁.

What did I learn from this?

1. Stay out of the candy aisle.

2. Doing an annual purge of the kitchen cupboards will keep the hoarding to a minimum.

3. Just like online shopping, think before I buy it.

4. Clean out the desk drawer at work.

Now that I have conquered the second thirtydays challenge I’m on to number three. I will be on vacation in March for part of the month so I decided to choose something that would also benefit my destination. I will try to shop small whenever possible. Almost all small businesses have been affected by the pandemic and quarantine with lack of tourism and customers. I’m not saying I won’t go to Costco but I will try to find things first at local businesses. That also means probably no online shopping unless I absolutely can’t buy it local.

😃

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Well, I’ve made it three weeks without candy or chocolate. Only one more week to go. Good thing I picked February for this one.

It’s been tough. I’ve always had candy at work, in the car and hidden all over the house. Which brings me to this.

Found this on my desk😳

These were left on my desk at work. I think my coworkers may be trying to sabotage my efforts 😂. Number one, I love Peeps and Sourpatch anything are my favorites. I will be saving these for March 1st LOL.

Road trips have been a little different. Normally I stop at the mini mart for a drink and some candy but this time when we stopped at the store I walked down the candy aisle and reminded myself of the thirty days thing and got my drink and left. Lol.

Fingers crossed. One more week😁

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No candy or chocolate 😁

Well, it’s been one week now with no candy or chocolate. I’m not going to lie. I had THE worst headache all last week. This may have also been due to the fact that my doc said to cut back on the caffeine……so no Mt. Dew lol or coffee.

I went through all of my cupboards last night. Really I was just looking to throw out all of the expired food but I stumbled upon the motherload lol.

So, what did I do with it? Well, I took it to work of course and put a sticky note on it, ” free to good home” 😂🤣😝 it was either that or throw it in the garbage can but I didn’t trust myself not to go dumpster diving. Hahaha.

As to how I’m feeling. Pretty good. I think the whole withdrawal symptoms are gone. I’ve been drinking a green drink every day. These aren’t all fancy, just orange juice or coconut water, frozen power greens, flax seed and peanut butter powder. They don’t taste all that bad. My body is probably going to go into shock though lol.

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One and done😁

Well, I did it! 30 days and no online shopping. This was easier than I thought it would be but I don’t think I could do it for a whole year. I guess the big question is what did I learn from this? That I shop a lot. LOL. Online. I buy stuff that I don’t need or that maybe I could find locally. I do have a confession to make. Through out the month I did look at stuff online. I put things in my online cart. I just didn’t purchase anything. I contemplated. I researched. I deleted. I added it back in. The thirty days gave me the time to decide whether I really needed it or just wanted it. In the end there were a few things that I did purchase. Things that I will need for the foxpartyofone vacation I’m planning next month. Stay tuned for that blog update🌴😎🏄‍♀️

Today starts the next thirtydays.. I’m thinking since I need to get in shape for next month, no candy or chocolate for February. 😲 and if you know me you know my sugar is my weakness. So fingers crossed🤞

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Well, it’s January 27th and I have stuck to my guns and not bought anything online. That’s not to say that there arent a few items in my cart that I will purchase on the 1st but they are only essential items that I can’t get elsewhere. I think that having to keep things in my cart and not purchase them immediately, made me think about whether or not I really needed them. There were quite a few items that I deleted after thinking about it. My main goal is to get away from the big box online stores and look at second hand or small business like SalvationArmy, Etsy, Mercari and Ebay. Some of these stores are online but I want to feel better about who I am giving my money to.

Fingers crossed. 4 more days😁