Roxi




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How to shop at a thrift store
It took me
1 week
It made me


How to find a babysitter
It took me
3 months
It made me
happy!


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Only check my facebook once a day (read all 2 entries…)
We have decided...

to only check fb after the kids are in bed at 7, for an hour or less. I’ll be starting today.



Only check my facebook once a day (read all 2 entries…)
What time?

Morning or before bed? For how long? As it is now, I check it several times a day and then get off right away if nothing is going on. This is an improvement, since I used to leave it up all day long.



Make changes to take the focus of Christmas away from consumerism
Christmas 2011

We moved to Arizona in 2008, and this Christmas we will be flying home for the first time since then. I am pretty much considering that to be our Christmas present, although I feel like with young kids that doesn’t quite cut it. Making changes to our traditions is on my mind, to minimize the effects of the consumerism that is all around us every year at this time.

I got some ideas on how to do this from this article:
http://exconsumer.com/category/consumerism-minimalism/

Here are some of the things I am thinking about trying to implement to replace or enhance the traditions we already have for Christmas:
Take trip to IL every Christmas
A day of Christmas baking (gifts?)
Framed pictures
Coupons for things like free babysitting, etc.
Lights festival
Go sledding/ice skating
Focus on the experience and memories rather than gifts
Charitable giving, doing nice things for family, friends, and strangers
Go to the movies
Limit gifts from Santa to a certain #?
Haircuts, gift certificates to buy clothes, books, music
Concert tickets



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