New Toys and Time to Work on the Garden
Happy March, everyone! It certainly started like a lion this year. It was 50 degrees and beautiful yesterday, and today we woke up with an inch of snow and blustery 20 degree weather. Winter in the northeast, I guess. You never know what's going to happen from day to day. Every year, we try to do a No Spend January, when we only spend on bare necessities like food and toiletries. It helps us to reset our thinking, after a long holiday season of shopping and spending. We did very well this January. Not only did we not buy anything unnecessary, we also worked on eating down our pantry and spent very little on food too. The other nice thing about a No-Spend-January is that it gives us a lot of time to think about what we do want to buy or spend our money on. It's so easy to impulse buy something you think you need, and you may later find out that you didn't need it at all, or that something cheaper would have done...