This weekend has been cold and snowing. Its a crazy kind of weekend where if you do not have to leave the house then its best to just stay put.

I decided it would be best to tackle a project or two since I was staying in. Getting rid of clutter and cleaning up the place to move forward to bigger and better things in life. And one can not create, make extra money, and work on a budget with a bunch of clutter around and a dirty house. Because if your home is cluttered and dirty all you end up doing is looking at it and wishing you had more time to clean it up now. Except its impossible to do it all at once unless you had a team of people to come and help. I would say 99% of us do not have a team of people.

I made myself a goal and a promise for this year. To get my home back in order so that I can later work on either getting a second job or get an etsy shop going, sell more on ebay or all 3. I know myself well enough that I can not do any of the above until I get rid of the clutter that has taken over my home. I can not function any more than I am now. And if my time is taken up by another job or at home work then I have to do something about the clutter in order to keep myself sane.

The first thing is to clean a corner out. My husband had stuff tossed there also so we both went at it and cleaned it all out. It took all of 1/2 hr to get it done. Crazy I know but that one spot is clean of clutter and its so much nicer walking past it now.

The second thing is I cleaned my stove inside and out. Took the door apart and cleaned the glass and took the drawers out and cleaned those. I might want to cook more with a clean oven to put food in.

So two things that have been nagging at me for quite awhile is done now. Next weekend I'll work on something else. By spring I think I can have my home back in order and easier to take care of.

I also sat or rather talked with my husband about what we have to spend this week. Its not always easy to talk to your spouse about this stuff when they are used to one just taking care of the bills. But I did and we both understand what is left to spend. A small mile stone on the budget front. But this one small step was not as hard as I thought and I hope to do this ever week so that we are on the same page. Then I can move forward on paying off the debt. It does feel good to have a small plan in place for once.

Although I was more or less snowed in a lot of accomplished. I was reminded of the days where we was more tight with our money and more frugal. I remember its not all that bad, sometimes it was even fun.