The Odd, Tangled and Organized Life

I had a profound epiphany today. I'm listening to this podcast, Pure Hustle Podcast, at work. They are starting to review Dave Ramsey's "Total Money Makeover". As you know, I'm going through the baby steps right now. I was on Step #2 (snowballing your debt), but I slipped back to Step 1 with the office remodel. With a little bit of Step 2. I'm still using the minimum payment from the accounts I have paid off to pay down the next credit account, but everything extra after that goes into the savings account. The things they talked about in their podcast are things I want. I want to be able to buy a car with just cash - no interest payments. I want to be able to live within my means and save money. I want to be debt free and working for things I want, rather than work to pay off credit cards and loans. That's why I'm working so hard with the side hustles. Selling on Etsy, selling on eBay, DoorDash, etc. I want to pay off my debt as soon as I can and b...

Happy Saturday! Another weekend and another chance to sell things. I sold my son's bed mattress and box spring this week. Another thing out of my house! Can you tell I'm a little excited? I have spaghetti sauce cooking in the slow cooker and the house is cleaned. Doing laundry right now and getting ready to list things. Some great changes to my debt countdown - $30 to $19k. Yay! Definitely going a little slower than I'd like, but I'm still moving in the right direction. Still working on replacing what I spent in the savings account. Only $660 left to replace. This week I didn't do much in listing or cleaning. I got an order for 30 soap savers! Just waiting for the buyer to pay. I gave him a wholesale discount. Had to buy some cotton yarn to make a few white ones. Right now the buyer is balking at the shipping price, but there is nothing I can do about that. They won't fit in a flat rate envelope. I also didn't work DoorDash this week. Trying to decid...

Hello! Happy Friday (almost Saturday)! Whew! I thought the weekend would never get here. Seriously. Working hard at the day job. Hustling on the side and selling stuff. I actually sold a few things this week. Sold a basket, some Precious Moments and some more water balloons! Not all of it went into savings, but a bit did. I am only $680 short in my savings account from where I was. Slowly getting my craft room back together. Put up some shelves in my son's room so I can organize better in there. Going to get serious with the reselling and selling of my crafts. Going to take more pictures. Better pictures. Listing on all sorts of sites. I actually opened a 2nd Etsy shop just for the other stuff I'm selling. I can sell vintage (older than 20 years) and craft supplies, which I have plenty of. And I have the other Etsy shop for the craft stuff I make. Keeping track of where I am listing things and for what price. So you'll see some new sections on the blog if you are foll...