Washing Clothes By Hand: Week 1

I have been giving up on my laundry for some time now, it has been cluttering my apartment and bringing me down. We don't have a washing machine in your apartment and not even in our apartment building. We need to go down the street with heavy bags, wait in the laundromat for 2 hours washing the clothes, we can't leave because people steal the clothes and I can't stay there by myself because I get harassed.

I had no idea what kind of picture I should add with these posts, fountains it will be!

So doing laundry took so much time and both of our times that it just never really happened, and it was just too heavy lugging the bags of laundry back and forth. Then one evening when I was doing nothing I got a great idea! I should wash our clothes in the sink. Now I have washed our clothes in the sink for a week and it is amazing!

So, how much did I manage to wash in a week?

I ended up washing 10 sink loads!

Socks: 61	Hoody: 1
Underwear: 29	Shirt: 1
T-shirts: 16	Dress: 1
Towels: 4	Pillowcase: 1
Tank-tops: 3	Tights: 1
Jeans: 1	Washcloth: 1
Cardigan: 1	Shorts: 1

Certain things shocked me, things like why do we have so many socks? And why does it seem that we never have any socks?

I was as well so surprised by how easy it was to wash the clothes in the sink and how much I actually enjoyed it! I plan on doing it for a month (3 more weeks) and see how I feel about it then.

Bisous

My Monthly Goals: February 2014

What is wrong with me? I have no motivation to do anything and days seem somehow just go by so quickly without me noticing. However, I am quite exited for February! This February I plan on having a Frugal February! So be prepared for some frugal blog posts and some money saving ideas! I as well plan on being super frugal this month! Therefore, my goals for February are most about not spending money!

1. Be on a Spending Ban!
2. Have 15 days of no Spending
3. Write down everything I spend
4. Spend no more than 100chf on groceries per week
5. Finish all the food in the freezer
6. Only watch 1 hour TV per day
7. Finish washing all the laundry
8. Keep a food diary for 10 days
9. Take pictures of a new place in Geneva
10. Post one vlog

I have so many things I need to do and I just sometimes don't know where to start!

Bisous

*Review: Montagne Jeunesse - Pulped Pomegranate Passion Peel Off - Deep Cleanse, purify and protect!

I love face masks, and I really really love pomegranate! So when I was sent this Pomegranate peel off face mask from Montagne Jeunesse I was really exited to try it out!

Montagne Jeauness describe the peel off face mask very nicely:

Pulped Pomegranate, Passion Flower, Raspberry, Grape, Cranberry & Vitamin E are Anti-oxidants that help protect skin, while pores get a deep clean peel-of!

However, the second ingredient is Polyvinyl Alcohol and the third one is Alcohol Denat! Not something I would want to use frequently on my face!

You should keep the mask on for 15-20 minutes, but after 10 minutes the mask started peeling from my face, I left it on for 5 more minutes and peeled the mask off. It didn't completely come off so I had to wash the last bit off.

It doesn't say that the mask is moisturizing so I wasn't expecting it to moisturize my skin but at the same time I didn't expect it to dry my skin out. But sadly it did.

I as well have to mention the annoying packaging since I am listing the things I didn't like about the peel off mask first. I find it hard to hold the packaging with one hand and trying to get some product out and using the other hand to spread the mask on my face. The packaging is just too clumsy and too big!

I want to end with the things I actually liked about the face mask!

I loved how it smelled. Really sweet and fruity scent, perfect to use in the summer. At the same time the scent wasn't overpowering or did it smell at all like alcohol!

I as well was happy with how it made my pores look, I was expecting to see my pores get smaller and the mask really did make them smaller! I don't know if it is because it dried out my skin or what it was. I noticed as well that the active breakouts that I had felt less irritated and seemed to have gotten smaller as well.

I'm not sure if I would buy this face mask again since it did dry out my skin quite a lot and I work hard on keeping my skin moisturized!

Bisous

P.S. What is your favorite Montagne Jeunesse face mask?

Being in a rut and getting back on track

For me, being in a rut is draining. It seems like the endless of nothingness just starts to chip away from my whole being, and slowly bit by bit I stop doing the things I enjoy and the nothingness keeps on growing.

I have now been in a rut for a very long time, I can't pinpoint what made me get stuck this time or even if there was something that made me put the brakes on. But bit by bit I stopped doing the things I love. I stopped blogging, I stopped reading, I pretty much stopped everything. I can't even remember the last time I baked! I stopped being as happy as I could be and became consumed with nothingness.

I know that this time it wasn't failure that brought me to this place, but it might have been more the fear of failure. The fear of failure is something that hinders my life the most. I have an amazing support net of family and friends that would never hold my failure against me but there is still that nagging voice in my head that keeps on telling me that I will fail.

I needed a good kick in the but to get back on the horse. I started by cleaning the apartment, something that I feel to be a necessary step in getting everything in motion again. Vacuuming the horrible feeling of nothingness away. Organizing both the clutter of the apartment and the clutter of my mind.

This year I want to focus on being a better person to others, but mostly to myself. The things I tell myself daily I wouldn't say to my worst enemy (if I had one). It isn't even something I would think about another human being (and definitely not an animal) but to myself it seems that there are no boundary of mean things I can say.

Bisous

P.S. I finish choosing the winners and pack all the giveaways prizes tomorrow!