I've never been a person that spent a lot of money. Maybe it comes from growing up in a small town where the nearest mall was an hour away. Or maybe it comes from the fact that the more money I didn't spend, the more money I had.
Either way, this whole "being on my own" thing is sort of new for me. I work a part-time job-- actually a couple of them-- and then I spend my time doing yardwork and going to the library and reading: very cheap hobbies.
One of my goals for this summer, though, was to: 1. standardize our living room furniture so it matches, has a theme (besides "we got these for free, aren't they ugly"), and 2. put together my wedding photo album. This was until I realized just recently, that I cannot afford to do either. I do not make enough money, especially when I leave work early because it's slow or when I take off work to travel.
So what shall I do instead? Um. Hmmm...
Then today it hit me: why am I so worried about my furniture matching if I can't even keep my house clean?! Whether I have ugly furniture or beautiful, classy, "themed" furniture, it's gonna look ugly if it has papers, junk, and dust everywhere. And if I can't even keep my house clean when it's just Kevin and me (and Toby), how will there be hope for me when I have kids messing the place up?
So these are my new goals: 1. clean our living room. keep the kitchen clean. put my clothes away once in a while. remember that just because I'm "in the middle of something" doesn't mean I have to physically be "in the middle" of the project 24/7. Putting things away is part of doing things. And 2. maybe I'll put together a scrapbook of the pictures I do have printed out. High school, mid school, girls' camp. These are fading fast into the realm of "things I don't remember doing," so it will be nice to have the pictures with labels before I go completely senile.