On My Mind

On my mind today is the myriad of little things that I could do, that I tend to overlook. Things that could save me money, or save time or energy, or improve the comfort of my home. Little things add up to big things over time. I read a post of Rhonda Jean's the other day where she said that some of the immigrants to Australia paid off their mortgages earlier than others due to their having grown and preserved their own food in their own backyards. A $25-50 savings per week adds up to $32 - 65,000 over a 25-year mortgage (well, and it is more than that if you include the savings on interest!)

That spurred me on to look for more of the "little" things to do, to save, to change for the better.

It was such a gorgeous day today, the perfect temperature with the perfect breeze and perfect little white fluffy clouds bobbing across a perfect blue, sunshiny sky. And I was inside doing laundry. For a moment.

In the garage, all in a tangled mess, sat the clothesline, which was taken down two winters ago and not brought back out after the new baby's arrival. Today was the day to make that small change.

It really only took about ten minutes (and a speedy massacre of several hundreds of baby spiders) to locate the post hole, the post, and to get the line all untangled.

A quick wipe-down with a scrubby sponge to get the garage grime off, and the shiny beauty was ready for service.

But the laundry door needed attention also: not having been opened for a year or two, it was full to brimming with spider nests -- ewwwwww!!! So a sweep-down with the straw broom (at full-arm's distance, yuck) and a kickback of the wild grape vines (and poison ivy, but we won't mention that) and it was good to go. The gorgeous sunshine was in my laundry room, and I was out of the laundry room in the sunshine, hanging up my laundry.

Such a small insignificant thing, but you know what?

It made my day.

And it was a tiny useful thing that will keep adding tiny savings as we go along.

It doesn't have to be big, it doesn't have to be perfect. It all counts.

Did you have a small challenge today? A tiny success? I'd love to hear about it. God bless!