Are you an imperfect homemaker? Do you struggle to keep your home clean and organized? Could you use some practical ideas and inspiration to manage your time better?
Stephanie from Keeper of the Home, Beth from Red and Honey, and I are hosting an Pinterest Party tonight from 9-10pm EST and we’d love for you to join us. We’re imperfect, too, and we’d love to share some things we’ve found that have helped us with our homemaking struggles.
Go RSVP here and we’ll send you details in a bit about where the party will be hosted, how to participate, and how to enter the giveaways.
Yes, not only will there be great content and practical ideas, there will be giveaways — and you won’t want to miss them! We’re giving away a Berkey water filter, a Kitchenaid, and a Vitamix!
It will be fun, upbeat, encouraging, and filled with lots of practical tips and ideas for managing our homes and lives, loving our families well, and having more organization and joy in our lives.
Come join us! You can pop in for a few minutes or stay the whole time!
This past year, I’ve turned down thousands of dollars in paid opportunities.
Some of you might think I’m crazy to do so. And when our business expenses are up and our business income is down, I sometimes will question those choices, too.
But then I quickly remind myself of why I’ve said no. For instance…
- I’ve said no to credit card companies who want to pay me to write posts about their offers… because, in good conscience, I just can’t bring myself to endorse credit card companies.
- I’ve turned down many opportunities to add more ads to the sidebar, header, and footer of my blog… because while advertising helps to pay the bills, I am adamant about keeping it to a minimum on the blog.
- I’ve turned down many lucrative opportunities to add pop-up ads to the blog… no matter how much the advertiser wants to pay me, I can’t bring myself to put something on my blog that I know will just be annoying to most readers.
- I’ve turned down numerous requests for me to write an underwritten post on a topic that isn’t in line with my core beliefs or that might possibly compromise my integrity… or even just that might pay well, but offers no benefit to my readers.
- I’ve turned down many partnership opportunities because it would suck my time and keep me from being able to make my family and writing here a priority.
Please know, I don’t judge or criticize other bloggers who have made different choices than me in this regard. I’ve seen some of the above work well for different bloggers with different audiences, but for me, I am 150% committed to always putting my specific readers and their specific needs first in making blogging decisions.
And not just my readers take precedence, but more importantly, my relationship with the Lord, my husband, and my kids.
If it’s not a win for you, if there’s not any value for you, if it means I must neglect my family or lose my health and sanity in the process, I don’t care HOW much a company wants to pay me, it’s not worth it.
I also am very careful what I choose to heavily promote or highly endorse. I want you to know that my words have weight.
Almost every month (or sometimes more than once a month!), I get asked to be a part of a Bundle Sale — where a bunch of authors put all their downloadable books together into a package and offer it for a special sale price and then split the earnings. I have said no to every single one of these but two so far: The Healthy Living Bundle Sale and the Ultimate Homemaking Bundle Sale.
Why? Because I know that your resources are limited, your budgets are tight, and I can’t be highly recommending that you buy a new Bundle offer every month.
I’ve specifically chosen to promote the Healthy Living Bundle Sale and the Ultimate Homemaking Bundle sale because I know the folks who run those sales very well, have worked with them closely for years, and believe that they are offering you a top-notch bundle at an incredibly low price.
They are the real deal. And all of the amazing testimonies from my satisfied readers who have purchased from them in the past are proof of just that.
I tell you all this, because through Monday only, the Ultimate Homemaking Bundle is available. This is a never-before-offered Bundle packed with 99 different resources. And I am participating in this sale because I firmly believe it is worth every penny of the price and much, much more.
Over the past few weeks, I've gotten a sneak peek at the ebooks, e-courses, and free bonuses and have been so inspired and motivated by what I've read and learned.
In fact, The Ultimate Homemaking Bundle is a complete library of carefully selected eBooks, ecourses, audios, online conferences, and printable packs designed to help you turn your house into a home… without all the overwhelm.
It’s 99 resources in all. (A total value of $984.74.) It includes:
- ✔ 76 eBooks
- ✔ 6 eCourses
- ✔ 1 audio download
- ✔ 2 online conferences, and
- ✔ 14 printable packs
Now please note: There is a LOT of information in this bundle. It could feel overwhelming if you were to try to read all the ebooks, go through the ecourses, sign up for the freebies, and implement all the changes and ideas the authors tell you to make.
I want to encourage you to NOT read all the ebooks. That information overload could just produce major stress and guilt.
Instead, I encourage you to look at the list of ebooks and e-courses and pick 10-15 that you feel would be highly beneficial. For instance, here are the ebooks I want to read ASAP:
There are many more ebooks that I hope to read in the future, but I'm trying to pace myself and not be overwhelmed with ideas and information.
It's better to baby step your way along and actually make small and steady changes, than to try to overhaul your life overnight and end up stressed and burnt out.
Want to win a FREE bundle?
To help manage your home and life better, I'm going to give away an Ultimate Homemaking Bundle to two readers here in the next 24 hours. Here's how to enter to win:
1) Head over here and pick out two ebooks in the bundle that you'd love to read.
2) Then, come back here and leave a comment on this post telling me which two ebooks you'd love to read.
I'll choose and post two winners tomorrow afternoon and will buy you each a copy of the Ultimate Homemaking Bundle!
So, after a rather, um, eventful travel day back from our trip to Maine with my extended family today (read all about it here), we saw this sign at the Starbucks at the airport.
And frugal me flipped just a little bit that I didn’t know about free coffee at Starbucks!! That just felt like a travesty!
However, I had not seen this free coffee at Starbucks deal advertised online nor did anyone email in and tell me about it. I just Googled it and it looks like some news sites did advertise it, but it doesn’t appear like it was widely advertised.
I know they’ve offered it in past years on Earth Day, but they always advertised it pretty heavily. So now I’m wondering if it were just at select locations or if Starbucks purposely didn’t really advertise it? Anyone know?
Did anyone else find this deal at your Starbucks today?
