Secret of Successful Skinny Living

Here it is:

KISS

Keep It Simple, Sweetie.

De-clutter.  Get rid of the excess.  Here's what I have in my life:

-- one home
-- one car
-- one bank (three accounts under that one roof.. checking, savings, convenience for money inflow)
-- one wardrobe (I live a tropical one season life)

The two back to back hurricanes in September, 2017 changed my diet and my grocery shopping list.  With no power for two months and daily ice runs to keep minimal foodstuffs fresh, I learned to live lean.  I shop with a list and usually stick to the list.  My favorite recipes are 5 ingredients or less.

Keeping it simple means for me less time spent on maintenance and more free time for fun.

Penny Pincher

International Women's Day - 3/8/2019

Today is a day for all women everywhere on earth to celebrate.  The Google doodle for today celebrates women in 14 beautifully illustrated inspiring quotes from women.  Go see it for yourself.

Google doodle for International Women's Day

Here's my personal wise saying for all women:

Never be less than you are for anyone.

No false modesty, no hiding your light under a bushel.  Be proud of who you are and what you have accomplished.  And above all, control your own money.  As my dear friend Susan said: "She who makes the gold makes the rules."

Penny Pincher

Catastrophe

As defined in my favorite holiday movie (Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck) catastrophe is a word from the Greek, meaning: NOT good.  In tarot cards, it's #16 in the majors, the tower.  Again, NOT good.  It's an event of little warning with dire consequences.  Like an earthquake or tsunami.    Cutting to the chase, my windows 10 laptop DIED.  Catastrophe.

One minute I was happily surfing the net, the next my computer (for NO apparent reason) shut down.  WTF??  When I attempted to restart, the machine tried repeatedly to repair itself, to no avail.  DEAD.   FRIED. TOAST.  OMG.  Visions of all that lost data danced in my head.  O.M.G.

When I began writing this post, I was unaware that people in Alabama were about to be hit by devastating tornadoes.  Losing homes and lives.  In the overall scheme of things, my dead computer is mere fly shit.  I already have a new laptop on order, and will spend a day reconstructing my Quicken data.  I'm a paper hoarder, so have everything I need to get the job done. Would that those hit by the tornadoes would fare as well.  As a survivor of two hurricanes in September, 2017, my heart goes out to those who have suffered losses.

Penny Pincher