Category: month in review
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October Empties
This was a month of a slight pivot back to lower waste hygiene products. Which felt good to be back to my normal routine. Also, in September I actually made use of the fact that I’ve been holding on to my empty containers for the whole year and used some of the smaller ones to…
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What I Read in October
In October, I did the seemingly impossible, I read two non-fiction books. Which is (and was) nearly impossible. I was lucky that Bourdain is so readable and fun because Miss Dior was a tome. It took nearly 7 weeks of lunch hour reading to finish it. Miss Dior by Justine Picardie This was a very…
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October in Review
I was so surprised when I was going through my camera roll for this at how many hiking/outdoorsy pics there were. This is my most outdoorsy month ever in my life. It was really nice though, we had pretty great weather for October in Northwestern Ontario. We don’t have any snow and I am extremely…
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What I’m Buying in October
The one thing about writing these posts basically mid-month is that I’ve already bought nearly everything on this list and now I need to stop shopping, especially since I accidentally ordered the wrong item because I’m an idiot who doesn’t pay attention and only noticed after it shipped and now I can’t change it. Anyways:…
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Financial Fitness Check-In: September 2022
I need to preface September 2022’s check-in by saying that this was the first time I have taken a proper vacation since pre-pandemic, maybe even since 2018, and that I had been saving for months for it. It’s also the first vacation I’ve ever taken with like real adult money. So saying I spent moneyyy…
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September Empties
If I have noticed anything writing these posts it’s that I follow a cycle, extreme waste reduction to hyperconsumption to feeling guilty about spending so much on beauty products and consuming so much plastic packaging, to not buying anything and then it starts again. And I am definitely in a not buying anything phase, even…
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October State of the Union
This post idea literally just occurred to me. I was thinking about how I DNFed (did not finish) the only book I attempted to read in the month. I think in the future I will combine all of monthly recap style posts, the monthly empties, the what I reads in…, the financial fitness check ins,…
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September in Review
September was a fantastic month, an absolutely insanely busy month but it was so fun and fulfilling and I really needed it. Also today is Truth and Reconciliation Day, if you live on settled land please take the time today to think about the loss and suffering that Indigenous Peoples endured for colonization to occur…
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Financial Fitness Check-in: August 2022
This was a bit of a weird month, it felt like I didn’t do anything, go anywhere, or buy anything, but I somehow spent a ton of money?? Some of it is for future stuff, like travel tickets for while I’m home, but most of it is bills and food. This was also one of…
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August Empties & Expireds
This month is a little different, I went to use one of my favorite lipsticks early on in the month (or maybe in late July), and was appalled by the stench coming from it. And it, not quite burned, but it definitely tingled on my lips when I had it on and it doesn’t normally…
Laura Caeris - Thoughtful Millennial 