Second blog post today! I don't have my laptop yet, but some amazing friends let me borrow theirs. I.am.blessed.
I've been going through some serious blog withdraw. So many things floating in my head and I keep thinking, "I should blog about that." Only to remember that my laptop is still out of commission. Ipractically totally and completely whine to Hotsauce daily about it.
Well, here's just a little story that I think you should take into consideration. If you're trying to get your Emergency Fund up to $1,000 or trying to get some of your snowball (aka debt) paid off and can't seem to make your money last to the end of the month you have a few options. Either you can try to cut spending (eliminate that $4 coffee everyday, get rid of your cable T.V. and your iPhone) or you can bring in extra income. Not exactly rocket science I know.
I know because I'm not a rocket scientist and I get it.
Hotsauce and I are trying to make as much extra income that we can without having to get extra jobs outside the home. As you know, we have a friend staying with us to bring in a little extra each month. I have also had a garage sale and sold things on a local online garage sale (Local friends check out Oelwein For Sale on Facebook). In addition I've opened an online store called "Turkey Bottom Haven".
Turkey Bottom Haven has items that Hotsauce and I have bought along the way that needed some love. We take a lot of items that most people would just junk and upcycle it to something beautiful. After we finish a project I almost always find myself emotionally attached to it. Hard to believe right?
Sometimes I even find myself bargaining with Hotsauce in order to keep it. He has a very gentle and tender way of saying... "Heck to the N-O."
Perhaps the most difficult thing that we have let go of was this:
A wonderfully distressed yellow chalkboard. The reason that it was so hard? It was Bean's crib. And after Saucy Pants and Chubba were born so close together Saucy was in this crib, while Chubba was close by in another crib.
I didn't want to give it up.
But, it had sat in the basement for so long and I kept telling myself that I if I "live like no one else, then I will live like no one else."
I want to be free. This is just a thing. I have other reminders of when my Turkey's were babies. So when the time came to sell it I was completely at peace about it.
And I was overjoyed when the lady who bought it told me that it would be a part of her daughter's wedding! This chalkboard that meant so much to me was a part of (what I hear was) a beautiful wedding! I lurve that!
And better yet? The completely talented photographer from the wedding loved the chalkboard so much, that she purchased it after the wedding. Perhaps we will one day see it in one of Fonda Photography's pictures soon! If we do, it will again have a special memory in the life of some other family. I lurvesauce that!
I went back and looked at all the items on Turkey Bottom Haven that I have sold and so many of them I thought, "I'm going to miss you when you're gone!" In reality, I barely give most of them a second thought, other than to praise God for blessing us so richly.
So today I celebrate letting go! Holding on only keeps me trapped where I am.
What do you need to let go of?
I've been going through some serious blog withdraw. So many things floating in my head and I keep thinking, "I should blog about that." Only to remember that my laptop is still out of commission. I
Well, here's just a little story that I think you should take into consideration. If you're trying to get your Emergency Fund up to $1,000 or trying to get some of your snowball (aka debt) paid off and can't seem to make your money last to the end of the month you have a few options. Either you can try to cut spending (eliminate that $4 coffee everyday, get rid of your cable T.V. and your iPhone) or you can bring in extra income. Not exactly rocket science I know.
I know because I'm not a rocket scientist and I get it.
Hotsauce and I are trying to make as much extra income that we can without having to get extra jobs outside the home. As you know, we have a friend staying with us to bring in a little extra each month. I have also had a garage sale and sold things on a local online garage sale (Local friends check out Oelwein For Sale on Facebook). In addition I've opened an online store called "Turkey Bottom Haven".
Turkey Bottom Haven has items that Hotsauce and I have bought along the way that needed some love. We take a lot of items that most people would just junk and upcycle it to something beautiful. After we finish a project I almost always find myself emotionally attached to it. Hard to believe right?
Sometimes I even find myself bargaining with Hotsauce in order to keep it. He has a very gentle and tender way of saying... "Heck to the N-O."
Perhaps the most difficult thing that we have let go of was this:
A wonderfully distressed yellow chalkboard. The reason that it was so hard? It was Bean's crib. And after Saucy Pants and Chubba were born so close together Saucy was in this crib, while Chubba was close by in another crib.
I didn't want to give it up.
But, it had sat in the basement for so long and I kept telling myself that I if I "live like no one else, then I will live like no one else."
I want to be free. This is just a thing. I have other reminders of when my Turkey's were babies. So when the time came to sell it I was completely at peace about it.
And I was overjoyed when the lady who bought it told me that it would be a part of her daughter's wedding! This chalkboard that meant so much to me was a part of (what I hear was) a beautiful wedding! I lurve that!
And better yet? The completely talented photographer from the wedding loved the chalkboard so much, that she purchased it after the wedding. Perhaps we will one day see it in one of Fonda Photography's pictures soon! If we do, it will again have a special memory in the life of some other family. I lurvesauce that!
I went back and looked at all the items on Turkey Bottom Haven that I have sold and so many of them I thought, "I'm going to miss you when you're gone!" In reality, I barely give most of them a second thought, other than to praise God for blessing us so richly.
So today I celebrate letting go! Holding on only keeps me trapped where I am.
What do you need to let go of?
Kelly, how special !! It almost made me cry. Treasure all your "turkeys" as they will be gone from the "nest" way to soon. Just one correction. Fonda only borrowed the chalkboard. I will never get rid of it and plan to mount it by the door to our garage as a message board and to remind me of Lucys special day. !!
ReplyDeleteI guess I misunderstood what Fonda was telling me! I'm so glad that you'll get to hang onto it and the memory of Lucy's day for a long time. I saw pictures that Fonda took and they are stunning!! Also I'm sure that your grandkids will have fun drawing on it too!
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