Just by my title you might be cringing, or rolling your eyes, or something.\u00a0 And if you\u2019ve been following me a while, you hopefully will realize that I\u2019m not here to tell you what to do \u2013 I do aim to challenge the way you think about things.\u00a0 It\u2019s your life after all and no one but you is living it.\u00a0 Similarly with organizing principles, it\u2019s about finding what works for you \u2013 taking the pieces and creating your own version.<\/p>\n
Therefore, here\u2019s one of the things I\u2019ve learned for myself \u2013 there are times and places to spend more money.\u00a0 We hopefully all know that it\u2019s wise to watch what and how we spend our money (though some statistics show few of us keep a budget).\u00a0 Yet, as with so much of what I talk about \u2013 I encourage you to be mindful.<\/p>\n
Coming from parents who have tendencies toward being frugal, I can struggle to spend a couple of dollars for a treat.\u00a0 Once a year, chocolate oranges are available \u2013 around Christmas and I patiently wait for opening the stocking since my husband knows how much I love them.\u00a0 This year he wasn\u2019t home and I walked into a store and happened to see them.\u00a0 I almost walked away, yet this is a treat I enjoy once a year, so why not?\u00a0 I bought myself two and savored every bite \u2013 those few dollars were well spent.<\/p>\n
From an organizing perspective, I probably make my strongest suggestion during the whole process for their waiting to purchase supplies \u2013 those desirable containers and tools for helping with organization.\u00a0 This doesn\u2019t come from a frugal point of view; it\u2019s purely practical though it most often saves time and money in the long run too.\u00a0 If you buy a neat organizing tool before you\u2019re ready to use it, let alone know if it\u2019s going to meet your specific needs \u2013 it often becomes clutter.\u00a0 If you wait until you know what you need and can use it \u2013 you can bring it home and put it to use immediately.<\/p>\n
When my husband and I moved into our new home, our first house, we bought a stud finder.\u00a0 We knew nothing about our walls or what kind of stud finder would be best for us and we went with a fairly inexpensive one.\u00a0 It turned out to be useless.\u00a0 Yet, this doesn\u2019t mean the highest end product is the answer either.\u00a0 It does mean that it\u2019s worth considering what your needs are \u2013 both for yourself and future.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not always easy to know what is the worth spending the money on \u2013 when I first got my iPad, I picked up a stylus to use with a handwriting program.\u00a0 It worked, though too often it was frustrating and inconsistent.\u00a0 After talking with my husband, I purchased a different model that works really well.\u00a0 I appreciate its quality and have begun eliminating paper clutter from phone messages by using my stylus and iPad.<\/p>\n
As you can see, this isn\u2019t about a suggestion that will fit all of you \u2013 it\u2019s about your life and stuff.\u00a0 Yet, it is about thinking about the things that have value and use in your life \u2013 and not scrimping on spending the money that will help support you.\u00a0 Living on either extreme rarely serves anyone.\u00a0 Therefore, when and where does it make sense to spend some more money for your needs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019ll admit it \u2013 I can have a hard time spending money, it often feels frivolous, yet there\u2019s a \u201cgood\u201d spending that\u2019s productive. This is extremely personal \u2013 what are the things that add value to our goals and lives?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,8,18,5,22,15,17],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personaldevelopment","tag-behavior","tag-discipline","tag-goals","tag-household","tag-productivity","tag-resources","tag-spaces"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7p82c-mi","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}