we are going to be millionaires

After much anticipation I finally got to work on my “Less is More” life project over this past weekend (baby steps). I went through 3 of my 4 closets and have managed to start a small bag of clothes that I will hand down to my little sisters to look through, and then Ill let them do the donating of whatever items they deem not suitable (pun master flex) for them to wear in front of their friends... I threw away 4 pairs of shoes (because let’s be honest, who wants used shoes?) and I started to finally get rid of all my half used bottles of shampoo (if any of you are FB friends of mine you may recall the issue I had last year with my semi-hoarding of half used bottles of everything). I did finally figure out how I actually end up with this ridiculous collection though (which was a major breakthrough for me), I figured out that I hate half empty bottles laying around, so I stock them away and bring out the full bottles for viewing and using… Apparently doing this for a year at a time will give you a pretty hefty hoard-like collection of half used bottles. Its weird, I know… I’m working on it (possible 2013 New Year’s resolution: Stop hoarding half empty bottles of everything)

Next on the list is getting rid of our cable! I am actually quite excited about this one… We pay $130 bucks a month for cable and other than my nasty addiction to terrible reality TV, I only use cable for sports and now that the Steelers blew it Football season is over I am completely ok with ridding myself of the cable box (that damn thing only works half the time anyway). With this kick we will save $1560 bucks this year!! Pretty freaking cool if you ask me =)

I am also all about some repurposing and refurbishing! I found this adorable desk online (super cute huh?), but this beauty would break my wallet of a whopping $1,095 buck-a-roos (Its cool to say “buck-a-roos” right?). So instead, I took a different approach. I bought this 1940’s cutie on Craigslist for $17 bucks:






















Along with this chair for $5 bucks at the local flea market:




























I then turned it into my own little adorable desk:




























{process of this refurb soon to be released}












Altogether I made this "knock off" for about $23 buck-a-roos (there I go again, I need to stop that, it sounds ridiculous)!
Sure it’s not set up in a cute pink room and may not look exactly the original one (which was a tad too whitish for me anyways), but what do you expect when you just saved yourself $1072 bucks! Jeesh…

So basically what I am saying here is that I have already saved Jamie & I $2,632 bucks this year(that’s how it works, right?) and it’s only the second week of January! At this rate we should have exactly one million dollars saved up by 2013. That’s my projection and although I am no mathmetician, I am pretty sure that’s a number is 100% accurate.

WOOHOO!!

How are your New Year’s Resolutions coming along?

Its ok if you don’t answer me, it’s really hard to top mine. Unless you are curing cancer or fighting world hunger, in that case, you win.