Day Number One.

October 9, 2008. It started before now but today will be officially day 1. My goal is to live more simply. Create a budget and stick to it, reduce clutter, eat better foods and help my family be strong and healthy.

In May, we started using cloth diapers. It's been a little bumpy getting to where we are now and since we've outgrown most of them we need to get more, but we are doing the best we can and our goal is to be 100% cloth by May next year. I will also start making clothes for the children in the hopes of saving money and hopefully creating items that look good and are well made.

I hope to have a garden in the spring which we can use for most of our veggies and herbs. I also would love to be able to can food, but that's more long term right now. I will keep making dinners and snacks from scratch and hope to be able to use whole foods with the money we're going be saving.

We will create a budget and stop all unnecessary spending.

If all goes well, we will be able to take a family vacation somewhere fun in 2 years!


***We have WAY too many clothes. Goal #1 will be to reduce the clothing to about half. We have already donated 5-6 big trash bags of clothes and I can see 4-5 more to go. Definitely way too many clothes! (Laundry here is rough!)