30 day minimalism challenge

Hey readers, 

 I bet you are wondering what the 30-day minimalism challenge is? well, let me tell you about it.

Basically, the 30-day minimalism challenge can be done any time that suits you. The idea is to challenge you to do some sort of decluttering in your life. The lists I have produced are some easy and a bit harder.

The goal is to do complete each challenge every day. It is good sometimes to have something to aim for and hopefully by the end of the challenge you feel more organised with less clutter in your life. 

There are many benefits to cluttering with reducing stress, boosting your creativity, and making your home be a bit tidier.

Here is the list of the 30-day minimalism challenge. 

1. Purge your wardrobe. There is a good post by Simply Saving that goes into more detail on how to declutter items such as shoes, clothes, and bags. You can find out more detail here.

2. Throw out old socks.

3. Avoid spending for a day. 

4. Cook at home for the day - all three meals breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

5. Clean out your fridge.

6. Clean out your email inbox.

7. Create a morning ritual. 

8. Practice single-tasking.

9. Go through your books.

10. Spend 30 minutes outside. 

11. Evaluate your current spending.

12. Delete the unwanted apps that you don't use.

13. Write tomorrow's to-do list before bed.

14. Say no to something.

15. Turn off notifications.

16. Empty your junk drawer.

17. Clean out your car.

18. Clean your makeup brushes.

19. Recycle old receipts and paperwork.

20. Write out some new minimalist rules to live by.

21. Act of kindness.

22. Get all your errands done.

23. Ditch makeup for a day.

24. Declutter 5 items.

25. Organise your digital files.

26. Make a new dish.

27. Take a long bath.

28. Write down 3 things you are grateful for.

29. Unsubscribe from at least 4 email newsletters. 

30. Don't complain all day.

Have you tried the declutter challenge? Love to hear your thoughts in the comment section down below. 

Cheers for reading X

My Sunday photo 18/07/2021

Pop-it chocolate bar recipe.

 Hey readers,

As pop-its are very popular at the moment then you may want to try out this fun pop-it activity making chocolate with a pop-it mold.

What you will need.

* Pop-it.

* A bar of chocolate - make sure it contains milk or milk powder but not whey powder or added protein.

 * A bag of  M&Ms.

Method. 

1. Make sure you that wash your pop-it to make sure nice and clean.

2. Enough water to not boil dry but not so much it touches the bar. Make the water simmer. Place the chocolate into a bowl and put it on top of the pan and keep checking until the chocolate is melted.   (You can also melt the chocolate in the microwave in a 10 to 20-second burst).

3. Next you need to put M&MS into the holes of the pop-it.

4. Pour the chocolate over the pop-it, making sure that it is covered all over.

5. Then place into the fridge and leave for a couple of hours, until the chocolate.

6. Peel pop-it from chocolate.

Cheers for reading X 

75 fun things to do over summer.

 Hey readers,

Summer is among us and you may be looking for some ideas of fun things to do. So check out my electric list of ideas to make you want to do something this summertime. 

1. Bike rides.

2. Make ice cream. 

3. Have a picnic at the park. 

4. Do a puzzle.

5. Visit a splash park. 

6. Plant flowers or vegetables.

7. Berry picking. 

8. Take an early/late walk. 

9. Fly a kite. 

10. Go to the cinema. 

11. Try new food. 

12.  Go to an amusement park. 

13. Take a road trip. 

14. Feed the ducks. 

15. Go to the beach.

16. Ride in a hot air balloon. 

17. Make tie-dye T-shirts.

18. Learn to fly fish.

19. Have a water balloon fight.

20. Play disc golf. 

21. Visit a museum. 

22. Collect natural objects for art.

 

23. Host a bake-off.

24. Geocache. 

25. Send a postcard.

26. People watch.

27. Take a scroll through sunflower fields.

28. Make a summer wreath.

29. Eat al fresco. 

30. Try out a new dessert recipe. 

31. Make slush puppies. 

32. Pick wildflowers. 

33. Have a BBQ.

34. Sleep with your windows open. 

35. Make your own salsa. 

36. Go fishing. 

37. Take a hike. 

38. Take a canoe ride. 

39. Stay inside because it is too hot to go outside. 

40. Do a walking tour of your nearest city. 

41. Wash your car properly. 

42. Practice yoga in the park. 

43. Play minigolf.

44. Visit the library.

45. Take a walk and listen to a podcast. 

46. Take photographs of nature. 

47. Go to an outdoor film screening. 

48. Skim stones at a pond. 

49. Walk barefoot. 

50. Go to the zoo or a city farm. 

51. Mow the lawn. 

52. Eat a slice of watermelon. 

53. Find fun shapes in clouds. 

54. Camp in your garden.

55. Collect seashells.

56. Play kickball. 

57. Make s'mores.

58. Lego challenges.

59. Spend the day doing things that don't cost a penny.

60. Make a list of things when you are bored. 

61. Write a novel or short story. 

62. Blog. 

63. Vlog.

64. Buy a digital photo frame and fill it with your favourite photos. 

65. Dance like no one is watching. 

66. Print one of your favourite photos. Then enlarge it and put it in a photo frame. 

67. Watch an entire series on Netflix. 

68. Work on a puzzle.

69. Do something completely out of your comfort zone. 

70. Stargaze at night. 

71. Make a travel inspiration board.

72. Go for a scenic drive.

73. Plant a herb garden. 

74. Make a birdfeeder. 

75. Check out virtual performances. 

Have I missed something on the list that you think would make a good idea to do during summertime? Love to hear your thoughts in the comment section down below. 

Cheers for reading X

Confessions of a Crummy Mummy

My Sunday Photo 11/07/2021

Iced cold coffee recipe.

 Hey readers, 

Looking for an awesome cold beverage to have during the summer. Then you need to try this iced cold coffee recipe down below. 

What you will need.

* Coffee (granules or filtered).

* Sugar.

* Coffee syrup.

* Ice cubes.

* Milk or cream.

How to make the iced cold coffee.

1. Make a cup of coffee and add sugar (optional) put it into a jug and mix well until it has dissolved. 

2. Let the coffee cool down to room temperature and then put the jug in the fridge for 1 hour so that it is chilled. 

3. Put some ice into the glass.

4.  Pour the coffee into the glass.

5. add some coffee syrup mix together there you have your iced coffee. 

Enjoy!

Cheers for reading X 

7 reasons why I hate the school run.

Hey readers,

I hate the school run, it is a pain the ass. Let me tell you the reasons why below. 

1.The weather.

Let's face it going to pick or drop off your little darlings when it is absolutely pissing it down or raging hot is always fun said no parent ever! Your either blinded by the blazing sun or getting drowned as a rat is often the case. Then you left either sweating or soaked through and cold. 

2. People parking like morans. 

When your trying to walk to school with the kids and the bloody cars are parked on the pavement taking up most of the path so it is extremely difficult to get around when there are also other people going in the opposite direction. Not to mention when cars park in bus lanes because they can't be arsed to make the effort to walk less than probably 5 minutes away from their home or park further away in a suitable spot because it is so lazy. 

3. Kids on scooters and bikes. 

Trying to just get your kids to school is a ball ache but then you have other obstacles to deal with like maneuvering around other children who are on bikes or scooters is fun as sometimes let's just say they are not good in a straight line and it may be a cause of having to jump out of the frigging way in order to be knocked down with everyone staring at you.

4.  Getting out of the door.

Sometimes the hardest part of the school run is the actual getting out of the front door. Kids will forget something, take their time putting on their shoes, or most like mess about with their siblings so they forget that they have a short time to get out of the door and to school. Other than bedtime this time is when they go into a sloth mood and no other time will you will see your child slow right down, sod's law I guess. 

5. Dog poo.

Where I live in an urban area and quite a few people in the neighborhood have dogs which means DOG POO. Quite often owners of dogs where I live haven't got the memo that you need to pick up the poo after the dogs had a shit. Therefore not only are you trying to avoid other children on scooters/bikes your also trying to maneuver around the dog poo. There is nothing more annoying than having dog poo on your show and trying to rub the dame thing off on the grass. 

6. Realising you have forgotten something your child needs. 

There are no many things happening and if your late because you have accidentally *ahem* tapped too many times on the snooze button of the alarm and therefore resemble a headless chicken then chances are you will end up forgetting a form, pe kit, etc. You most definitely have to go back a second trip to take the wanted item in.

7 I look like crap. 

waking up early in the morning, trying to get kids ready for school you forget or don't have the time to get yourself ready especially by the end of the week where you knackered and motivation to do their bare minimum is low so you end up looking like crap but it's ok as your not the only parent at there to crap ;)

Do you resonate with how I feel about the school run? Love to hear your thoughts in the comment section down below. 

Cheers for reading X

 

Confessions of a Crummy Mummy

My Sunday Photo 04/07/2021

My youngest happy reading his book from the library that he chose :)

116 sizzling summer Instagram captions.

Hey readers,

It is summertime so check out these sizzling hot summer-based Instagram captions where it is funny or beach-related I have it covered down below.  

 

       

   Cute summer Instagram captions. 

1. Catching some rays, some waves, and some faves. 

2. You're one in a melon. 

3. Sunsets > Netflix.

4. Let’s seas the day.

5. Girls just wanna have sun.

6. You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream ... and that’s pretty much the same thing.

7. Nothing but sandy skin and summer smiles. 

8. Beach bum.

9. Getting my daily dose of Vitamin Sea.

10. Keepin' it reel.

11. Paradise found.

12. Single and ready to fla-mingle.

13. Find me in the waves.

14. Life is better in a bikini.

15. Vacation mode: On.

16. Living on island time.

17. Tan lines may fade, but friends are forever.

18. Sunshine is the best medicine.

Summer song lyrics for Instagram.

19. "It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine. It's summertime." —Kenny Chesney.

20. "Here comes the sun, and I say, it's all right." —The Beatles.

21. "I got a pocket, got a pocketful of sunshine." —Natasha Bedingfield.

22. "Summer days drifting away to, oh, oh, the summer nights." —Grease.

23. "On an island in the sun, we'll be playing and having fun, and it makes me feel so fine, I can't control my brain." —Weezer.

24. "Summer, summer, summertime. Time to kick back and unwind." —Will Smith & DJ Jazzy Jeff.

25. "Cause I got that sunshine in my pocket, got that good song in my feet." —Justin Timberlake.

26. "I ain't never gonna beat this summer with you." —Brad Paisley.

27. "Under the boardwalk, down by the sea, on a blanket with my baby is where I'll be." —The Drifters.

28. "Summertime, and the livin's easy". — "Doin' Time" by Sublime.

29. "I'm gonna soak up the sun, I'm gonna tell everyone to lighten up." —Sheryl Crow.

30. "Everybody's gone surfin', surfin' U.S.A." —The Beach Boys.

Beach pun summer Instagram captions. 

31. Girls just wanna have sun.

32. Seas the day.

33. Don’t worry, beach happy.

34. Life's a beach.

35. Happiness comes in waves.

36. Keep palm and carry on.

37. Shell yeah!

38. Tropic like it’s hot.

39. I'm an aquaholic.

40. Namast'ay at the beach.

41. We mermaid for each other.

42. Beach bum.

43. Shell-abrate good times.

44. Getting my daily dose of Vitamin Sea.

45. Beach, please!

46. Just hanging with my gull-friends.

47. A midsummer ice cream.

48. Keepin' it reel.

49. Where there's a will, there's a wave.

50. I can sea clearly now.

51. I have resting beach face.

52. Happy as a clam.

53. Sun of a beach.

54. I don't wanna be tide down.

55. Giving in to pier pressure.

56. Long time, no sea.

57. Anything is popsicle!

58. Summer is going swimmingly.

59. Ahoy!

60. Happiest in flip flops.

61. Life's wave, catch it.

62. Feelin' beachy.

63. Stay salty.

64. You, me, and the sea.

65. Hope you have a (beach) ball!

66. You used to call me on my shell-phone.

67. Single and ready to flamingle.

68. You are mer-mazig.

Funny summer Instagram captions.

69. "Summer is the best excuse for lazy days."

70. "Pool hair, don't care."

71. "Vitamin Sea."

72. "I need a six-month vacay twice a year."

73. "Ice cream is a food group."

74. "Where can I get more vacation days?"

75. "Beach, please!"

76. "Stay salty."

77. "Tropic like it’s hot!"

78. "I’m in a flip-flop state of mind."

79. "Watch more sunsets than Netflix."

80. "Summer should get a speeding ticket."

81. "Summer is here and I am vibing".

82. "Find me under the palms."

83. "Happiness is air-conditioning on a hot summer night."

84. "I prefer my footprints in the sand than the snow."

85. "Sun, sand, and pineapple in hand."

86. "The beach: where doing absolutely nothing is doing something."

87. "Shake your palm palms."

88. "A pineapple a day keeps the worries.

Summer Vacations Instagram captions.

89. I’m on island time.

90. Paradise found.

91. My office for the day…

92. Out of office.

93. Vacay all day.

94. On vacation… be back never.

95. I live here now.

96. Would you be a dear and fetch a straw for my coconut?

97. That cabana life.

98. Chaise all day.

99. Chaise the blues away.

100. Tropic like it’s hot.

101. Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.

102. It’s not a vacation… it’s a lifestyle.

Summer Quotes for Instagram

103. "I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer—its dust and lowering skies." —Toni Morrison.

104. "Everything good, everything magical, happens between The months of June and August." —Jenny Han.

105. "The summer night is like a perfection of thought." —Wallace Stevens.

106. "In summer, the song sings itself." —Williams Carlos Williams.

107. "Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air." —Ralph Waldo Emerson.

108. "One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter." —Henry David Thoreau.

109. "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." —Audrey Hepburn.

110. "Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air." —Ralph Waldo Emerson.

111. "In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different." —John Steinbeck.

112. "I wonder what it would like to live in a world where it was always June." —L.M. Montgomery.

113. "It was June, and the world smelled of roses." —Maud Hart Lovelace.

114. "I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket." —Kelle Elmore.

115. "Summer's lease hath all too short a date." —William Shakespeare.

116. "And the summer seems as though it would dream on forever." —Elizabeth von Arnim.

Cheers for reading X

8 ways to improve your self esteem

Hey readers,

self-esteem can really impact your everyday life and the way you feel about tousled. self-esteem is about the way you feel about yourself and the way you talk to yourself. 

Sometimes, it can be asked due to bad experiences and not having enough confidence to have the belief in yourself. On the other hand, if you have positive self-esteem it can help you grow as a person and boost you to take steps to do the things you want to do. 

1. Be nice to yourself.

I know this concept of being nice to yourself can be hard but if you imagine speaking to another person I bet you wouldn't speak to them the way you speak to yourself. It is important to see that you have worth and get in the habit of seeing the positive in yourself. A way to get into this habit of being nice to yourself is by writing a list of positive things that have happened to you.

2. Celebrate the small stuff.

Sometimes it is the small stuff that is important and that should be celebrated. this habit gives you a boast and acknowledges your own self-worth. 

3. Reconise the positives.

It can be hard when you are so used to focusing on the negatives that you forget that there are always positives. Even if it is just one a day it is helpful to start thinking different. Try writing something down each day that is positive that you have done and then by the end of the month look back and amaze yourself at the positives that have happened.  

4. Lower expectations.

It is ok to lower your expectations especially if they are so high you aim for perfection. Let's face perfection is so unrealistic. Be kind to yourself it is ok to do well without being perfect. 

5. Do something kind for someone.

Doing something kind for someone can boost your self-esteem because the person is thankful for the help that you have offered. It is always nice to do something for someone else who can bring joy without wanting anything back. 

6. Change the scenery. 

Sometimes it is good to get away from your regular environment because it is something exciting and can lift your mood. This can help with feeling much more positive and the way you feel especially with yourself. 

7. Mistakes. 

Remember that mistakes happen to everyone and it is ok to make mistakes. Making mistakes doesn't mean you are a failure, life is always a bumpy ride and you have to take what you can from it and learn. 

8. Baby steps.

Sometimes we expect a lot from ourselves that we can get so hung up and potentially just give up altogether. That is why it is so important to appreciate the baby steps as they are key to help you grow and feel better about yourself. I always like to remember that slow and steady wins the race. As long as you are going in the right direction then should be all that is focused on. 

What has helped you to improve your self-esteem? Love to hear your thoughts in the comment section. 

Cheers for reading X

Confessions of a Crummy Mummy

My Sunday Photo 27/06/2021

My boys earned a green-blue peter badge this week from cubs and beavers :)