hi everyone and welcome to my home today's Saturday and I thought I would
share with you my goals for this year now this video is gonna be my goals for
my home and my home life my lifestyle and then tomorrow of course is heart to
heart and that I'm going to share with you my personal goals but today we're
going to talk about goals now everybody seems to want to talk about New Year's
resolutions and I really don't do that very often but this year I thought I
would share with you some goals that I have and maybe they're gonna be goals
that you have as well back on other years and I seen the goals that I made
other years and I actually fulfilled those goals but this year it's gonna be
some different so what are some things that I'm working on well I have some
books with me and I'm gonna share with you these books because this is just
gonna give you a little bit of an idea of where I'm coming from so the first
goal I have is the zero waste the zero waste movement it was something that was
brought into attention a few years ago now of course I can't go zero waste but
I think I want to work on it again this year last year I did very well and I
reduced my waste to about half of our household waste here on the homestead
and I'm really excited about that so I have about half the waste that I
normally did and so this year I'm hoping that I can recycle reuse just a little
bit more I'm gonna share with you next week some ideas that I have that I'm
going to recycle and I'm gonna make things out of things that you would
throw away and that's really what I want to work on we don't have any trash
service here and so we would do be psycho a lot but I think it would be
great to just be very much more aware of what we bring into the home next thing I
want to work on is learning to make 80% of the non essential non-food items so
when you go to the grocery store what do you buy that's not food could you make
it could you make it instead of buying it now of course you will need some
ingredients on hand but I'm starting to read books like this where you can
actually have recipes for all kinds of things that you normally would buy in
this store I think this is great I've done this again in
years past and I'm up to about 60% now compared to 80 so I was buying 80% of my
items that weren't food and now about 60 I'm hoping to get at about 40 to 50% so
we're gonna do a lot more of making your own shampoo of course I have countless
videos though on laundry soap fabric softener scented beads for your laundry
all of these things then I'll also have Lysa but we're gonna work on other items
maybe even some makeup or things that you can make at home really excited
about that as well that's another goal of mine for this year and in my videos
and just learning next thing is about buying food I'm a foodie and I love
going to the grocery store and finding all different kinds of food but I don't
need to do that it is non-essential as far as my life is right now and so as
you all know I get food that was going to be in the dumpster and I'm really
reclaiming that food and I did a video I did a video on Aldi and $50 and how it
was such a sticker shock to me now that video is the last of my food haul videos
because from now on we're going to use it up use it up so you're gonna see a
lot of videos on the depression-era cooking using it up using it up using it
up I have a lot of food I'm able to get a lot of food but I need to use it up
and I need to not go to the grocery store and use that as my recreational
time I know it sounds very strange to go to the grocery store to have that your
recreational time but for me it is I love going to the grocery store I love
the bright lights I love seeing all the different kinds of
food and I love the fresh food of it but you know what I don't need to and that's
an expense that I don't have and I don't need to have it and so I could take that
money and I could lay it aside and save it for hmm maybe my retirement you'd be
surprised how much money you spend on food and I'm gonna share with you not
spending on food but in January first I'm not spending on food now I may get
milk and a few a few essential items maybe like two things a week but that's
it you know if I'm gonna be claiming all
this food let's eat it and let's enjoy it another thing we're gonna learn is
using scraps from your kitchen to regrow your own food now if I've done this in
the past on many videos but there's so much more we can do and this is where I
was talking to all of you about how we can use food that we could regrow it and
we can be grown in our apartment so this is going to be a lot of fun we're gonna
work on this as well so I think this is gonna be really exciting because we're
gonna show you how you can me grow food and I can show you how you're going to
be able to just have something green growing in your house even in the winter
time but not least making your house a home and we're gonna have books like
this inspirational books where we're just gonna teach every day how to turn
your house into a home I'm all about turning your own living environment into
a beautiful home no not beautiful when I talk about looks
on the magazine or I'm not talking about beautiful when it's what society would
say I'm talking about a homespun way of living I'm talking about making your
home a warm and inviting place that you enjoy so these 2020 goals for me are
just goals for my household so what else am I gonna work on well spending I'm not
gonna spend as much but I do love my thrifty Thursdays I've had quite a few
people this year ask me about my thrifty Thursdays they
don't quite seem to understand it my thrifty Thursday is usually as you know
are under eight dollars so it's usually about five but people would say well if
I would save that money I could have a lot of money at the end of the year but
what they don't realize is two things if we deny yourself everything in life
we will become depressed there is a balance there's the balance of too much
and not enough and you need to have a healthy balance in life you can't
restrict yourself of everything you need to enjoy some things in life
and I enjoy my thrifty Thursdays it gives me a way to be with my girls and
we just have a lot of fun we do a lot of laughing and we just love to see all the
different things at the thrift store but then it also pays me so my five dollars
or eight dollars I can turn that into actually it's free for me because I make
a video on it and my 50 Thursdays are quite popular with it I know a lot of
people who ask me well what in the world do I do after all these 50 Thursdays
with all the items that I get most of the items I get are what you would call
consumable items so I'll get coffee filters and use them for my salve
solution or I'll get different things that you all see different vintage
baggies and different vintage things like that that I actually use so a lot
of my items are consumable items and every once in a while if I get something
I don't use it I will donate it back to the thrift store because simply I got my
money out of it so these are my goals for 2020 zero waste not buying food
eliminate as much as I can of the non essentials make them myself
instead of buying them at the store turning my house into a home and living
life to its fullest and you know I think that we're gonna have a lot of fun we've
had a lot of fun in the years past and you know it's just always something what
we're learning one thing I am gonna continue to buy his books and the reason
for my books are simple I get a lot of knowledge from my books and learning is
something that it doesn't have to cost you very much all of my books are used
and very cheaply bought but my books are all tax-deductible because I can use
them as education towards my youtube channel so all of my books are
tax-deductible and I need some tax deductions for my channel so it's a
win-win if you ask me I think it's great so
my ideas are gonna come from my books and whenever I have an idea for my book
you can rush the short that I'm going to give you the link of that book in case
you're interested in it as well take care everyone we'll see you guys
tomorrow and what are your goals for 2020 what are your goals that are your
house goals or goals in your life I can't wait to share with you tomorrow
what my goals are in my personal life because of many lot of mistakes this
year I want to work on those mistakes and I think you're going to be
interested in what my word is for the year what is my personal word for the
year of 2020 I hope you stay tuned tomorrow and find out because I think a
lot of you will resonate with what I have to say take everyone by
you
I know by putting out a video every single day there's a lot of videos that
you may have missed so take a look here these are the videos that I made this
week maybe some of them you might enjoy
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