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My $26.45 Weekly Minimalist Meal Plan (Week 4)

Hello, hello everyone! Happy Meal Plan Monday! This week’s menu will be a continuation of this month’s Minimalist Meal Plan Monday’s.

Here’s a recap of the five categories I use to help me create minimalist meal planning for the past three weeks:

Consistency: The goal of minimalist meal planning is to consistently prepare and present my family with home cooked, healthy meals each day this month.

Cost: Posted meal plans are based on seasonal sales cycles with attention paid to both frugality and minimalist efficiency. This weeks menu reflects our budget of $160.00 monthly for a family of three.

Power Consumption: I wanted to plan meals that do not require vast amounts of energy zapping stove-top and range preparation. A little food for thought: did you know that it costs an average of 18-24 cents an hour to run a gas range, 24-30 cents an hour for an electric range, 16-20 cents an hour for a microwave oven, a mere 3-5 cents an hour to run a toaster oven or convection top. With this in mind, I will be gearing this month’s meal planning to encompass dishes that utilize minimalist power consumption standards. Meals this month will utilize my toaster oven and convection stove top for all my baking and needs.

Streamlining: I was a little apprehensive about whether or not my family will be turned off of the idea of food simplicity. I quickly realized that my family love whatever I cook them, and with this in mind extreme food plan simplicity will give me an extra hour each day to devote to spending time with my family and not in my kitchen. In order to streamline my meal plans, to have a true minimalist food strategy I am going to assign each day of the week with a single meal.

Here’s what I purchased this week:

2 Swiss Mix 100 Serving Tubs, $3.31 (regularly $12.81 each)
5-pounds Organic Carrots, $2.51
5-pounds Cole Slaw Mix, $1.51
Driscoll’s 2-pound Strawberry tub, $2.51
2 2-gallon bottle pack of white vinegar, 2.51
Total: 15.66

2 bags of organic Celery, $0.49 each bag
BOGO EarthBound Farms Spring Mix tubs, $3.99 (used 2 1.00 peelie coupons & $0.25 from checkout51)
Iceburg lettice head, $0.69
Mango, $0.59 (submitted for $0.25 back from iBotta)
BOGO Ronzoni Pasta, $1.50
2 Manager’s Special mushroom packs, $0.79 each.
Halos bag, $3.00
Total: $10.32 after rebates

2 Whole Wheat Loaves, $0.84 each (double bagged for deep freeze)
3 Loaves of sliced rye bread, $0.50 each (double bagged for freezer)
Tony’s Pizza, $2.50 each (submitted for $0.50 iBotta rebate)
Smithfield marinated pork roast, $3.21 (submitted for $2.00 iBotta rebate)
Total: $6.39 after rebates

Soap refill, $1.00 (submitted for $0.50 mobisave credit)
Speed Stick deodorant, $1.00 (submitted for $0.50 mobisave credit)
Jenny-o Turkey Bacon, $1.00 (submitted for $0.50 mobisave credit)
Total after rebates: $1.50

Weekly total: $33.87

To create your own minimalist meal plan, think about which dinners are your family’s favorites that don’t take too much effort to prepare.
Consider which do you prefer to cook?
Think comfort meals. Think simple and keep it basic.
When creating your meal calendar this week assign one meal to each day of the week, taking into account school, work, and activity schedules. Leave your least busy days for meals that take the most amount of time to prepare.
Leave one day open each week for creativity in the kitchen, for ethnic, slow-cooked, heavy on the ingredient, new to you from Pinterest meals for weekends or Tuesday and Thursdays when poser usage rates nationally tend to be 20-30% lower on average. Focus on energy, your own and your household power usage as well!
Themes can be your best friend in minimalist cooking plans. Think Meatless Monday’s, Meatball Monday’s, Taco Tuesdays, Tofu Tuesday’s, Stirfry Wednesday’s, and Slow-Cooker Sunday’s!
Adjusting two meals a week to meatless options can help lower your grocery budgets by a quarter each month. This month we will be trying to expand Meatless Monday’s to also be Meatless Thursday’s as well.
This month breakfast, snacks, and lunches will be standardized. We will be having sandwiches for lunch, cereal and smoothies for breakfast. And yes you could do without snacks and increase lunch and breakfast portions, but I find smaller meals several times a day work better for my health, and so that’s how we will be rolling.

So what does this leave me with? My monthly minimalist meal plan will consist of default meals streamlined around items already on-hand that require less than a half hour to prepare, and cost under $5.00 per meal to create. Also worth noting, before I venture out to the market I first shop from my pantry and cabinets, only add weekly sales that are 60% or more below cost, and then create easy meals around these ideals. With this in mind you’ll find my menu for this week below.

Monday
Breakfast: Cereal with almond milk and strawberries.
Lunch: Turkey and cheese sliders, with Crystal light lemonade.
Snack: Grapes and String Cheese.
Dinner: Three bean vegetarian chili, steamed corn, and corn bread.
Dessert: Greek yogurt, granola, and blueberries.

Tuesday
Breakfast: Cereal with almond milk and strawberries.
Lunch: Turkey and cheese sliders, with Crystal light lemonade.
Snack: Grapes and String Cheese.
Dinner: Taco Tuesday.
Dessert: Greek yogurt, granola, and blueberries.

Wednesday
Breakfast: Cereal with almond milk and strawberries.
Lunch: Turkey and cheese sliders, with Crystal light lemonade.
Snack: Grapes and String Cheese.
Dinner: Chicken, carrot, broccoli quinoa bake, with Crystal Light lemonade.
Dessert: Greek yogurt, granola, and blueberries.

Thursday
Breakfast: Cereal with almond milk and strawberries.
Lunch: Turkey and cheese sliders, with Crystal light lemonade.
Snack: Grapes and String Cheese.
Dinner: Bakes Zucchini, Greek yogurt, and quinoa gyros, with Crystal light lemonade.
Dessert: Greek yogurt, granola, and blueberries.

Friday
Breakfast: Cereal with almond milk and strawberries.
Lunch: Turkey and cheese sliders, with Crystal light lemonade.
Snack: Grapes and String Cheese.
Dinner: Meatball hoagies, side salad with Greek Yogurt dressing, and Crystal Light.
Dessert: Greek yogurt, granola, and blueberries.

Saturday
Breakfast: Cereal with almond milk and strawberries.
Lunch: Turkey and cheese sliders, with Crystal light lemonade.
Snacks: Grapes and String Cheese.
Dinner: Chicken mole, served with steamed rice, corn, and Crystal Light.
Dessert: Greek yogurt, granola, and blueberries.

Sunday
Breakfast: Cereal with almond milk and strawberries.
Lunch: Turkey and cheese sliders, with Crystal light lemonade.
Snack: Grapes and String Cheese.
Dinner: Crockpot cheddar, chicken, and broccoli rice, with green beans and Crystal Light lemonade.
Dessert: Greek yogurt, granola, and blueberries.

Cost of food shopped from pantry and freezer: $26.45

So that’s all, everyone! I’m hoping that this streamlined plan will leave me feeling anything but restricted. With my family eating well and meal planning becoming more automated, I’m thinking of bringing back Family Game Nights! Incorporating minimalism into my weekly meal planning will help me be a few steps closer to realizing my minimalist dream. That said, if this streamlined plan doesn’t work for my family this month I can always change my plan again!

I’m ready to take back an extra hour from my day, each and every day this month. I’m ready to devote more time on creative endeavors, taking advantage of work opportunities, spending time with my family, and not slaving over a hot stove.

So, that’s what we will be having this week. I’d love to hear what’s on your menu as well!

Here’s to Monday meal plans,

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How to Make DIY Natural Laundry Detergent

Over the past year I have been gradually transitioning my family towards a more natural lifestyle. Some parts of natural living has been pretty hard, such as converting the entirety of our OTC couponed medical aids stash into a holistic medicine cabinet. But one of the easiest transitions? Making my own natural, homemade cleaners. And the easiest of all to make? Natural Laundry Detergents.

For our family the switch was a no-brainer. Conventional laundry detergent is loaded with chemicals like sulfates, fragrances, phenols, paba, stabalizers, bleach compunds, benzoxazolyl, diaminostilbene, disulfonate, and even worse, 4-dioxane, a polysorbate-20 compound known to contribute to lung distress in newborns and young children. Worse still, some brands even contain petroleum distillates, which are linked to cancer and lung disease.

Fortunately, making your own laundry soap is an easy process, and gives you the peace of mind to know exactly what you are washing your families laundry with! My version of natural laundry soap recipe is awesome all it gives me peace of mind in knowing I am washing my families with natural, eco-friendly laundering products.

I also love the frugality of this product. As I can make a year’s supply of detergent for under $30.00. The best part? This detergent is completely customizable, is allergy-safe, can be made scented or non-scented, is good for both standard and HE machines, and can also be converted into liquid detergent too! With Natural detergent, your not paying for water, your paying for quality laundry detergent.

Washing Soda (Arm and Hammer Brand available at most stores)
Borax (20 Mule Team Borax available at most grocery stores)
Bar Soap (Dr. Bronner’s, Ivory, or other natural, unscented bar soap)
Oxy Booster (from the Dollar Tree)
Epson Salts (from the Dollar Tree)
Essential Oils
Scent Boosters (optional and from the Dollar Tree)

Please note, though there has been a lot of speculation as to the safety of Borax, through my own research I have found that the ingredient is a naturally occurring mineral made up of sodium, boron, oxygen, and water. Borax is also used in most of the natural soaps commercially available on the market today including Seventh Generation, Mrs. Meyers, and Method. I feel comfortable using Borax, of the mule team box variety, because this product is comprised of sodium tetraborate or sodium borate and not boric acid or hydrogen borate. This is a common misconception in many naturalist forums. Further, Borax is an alkaline, and some even report drinking it in small doses medicinally as an aid in rhumatory artheritis, to clear yeast infections of the skin, acne, and as a no-poo alternative to shampoo.

Another ingredient I use, Washing Soda, sometimes called sodium carbonate or soda ash, is made from common salt and limestone or found as natural deposits. If you can’t find this ingredient locally, you can make your own from from baking plain baking soda for one hour at 400 degrees, and stirring occasionally until the baking soda turns into a grain. with this tutorial.

I also use Zote laundry soap bars, which are made of pure organic oils to help break down organic stains, and Dollar Store Oxy Booster, to boost my blends stain-fighting power. And to scent my blend I use both Epsom salts, sprinkled with essential oils added to my blend, and for added scent boosting scent boosters from the Dollar Tree. Both boosters are optional.

Ingredients in Laundry Soap:

3 Boxes of Arm and Hammer Brand Washing Soda, $2.98 each
3 Boxes of 20 Mule Team Borax, $2.98 each box
4 Bars of Zote Soap, $0.98 each
2 Tubs Oxy Booster (from the Dollar Tree), $1.00 each
1 2-pound bag of Epson Salts (from the Dollar Tree), $1.00
40 drops of Essential Oils per pound of Epsom Salts, price varies
2 1-pound tubs of Scent Boosters (optional and from the Dollar Tree), $1.00 each

Materials used to make the laundry soap:

5 Gallon Bucket, with lid (on hand)
Scoop (on hand)
Gallon Mason Jars (on hand)
Glass mixing bowls (on hand)

Cost for one year’s supply of natural laundry detergent: $25.82, roughly about $0.05 per load!

Natural Laundry Detergent

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My recipe for easy, DIY, Natural Laundry Detergent.

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15 min

Total Time

20 min

Ingredients

3 Boxes of Arm and Hammer Brand Washing Soda
3 Boxes of 20 Mule Team Borax
4 Bars of Zote Soap
2 Tubs Oxy Booster (from the Dollar Tree)
1 2-pound bag of Epson Salts (from the Dollar Tree)
30 drops of Essential Oils per pound of Epsom Salts
2 1-pound tubs of Scent Boosters (optional and from the Dollar Tree)

Instructions

In one bowl, grate the bar soap into a bowl. Set aside.
In a different bowl, add your Epsom salts and 30 drops of each essential oil you are using. Combine the ingredients with a fork until well blended.
Add the washing soda, Borax, oxy booster, scent boosters, Epsom salts, and grated soap to your bucket.
Place your lid on your bucket and gently shake your blend until well mixed together.
From this point, you can store your blend in your bucket.
We transfer our blend to glass 1-gallon mason jars for easy storage throughout the year.
Use 3 tablespoons per load for regular wash; adjust accordingly.

To make liquid Laundry Soap

Put 4.5 gallons of really hot tap water in a 5-gallon bucket
Pour eight cups soap mixture into 5-gallon bucket. Stir well.
Cover and leave overnight.
Use 1/8 cup per load.

By Niki Roberts (TheLadyPRefers2Save.com)

The LadyPrefers2Save https://theladyprefers2save.com/

So, folks that’s how I make my detergent. Have you tried making your own laundry detergent? What ingredients did you use? Do you prefer more eco-friendly options? I’d love to hear about it.

Here’s to more sustained living,

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100 Addition Items I No Longer Own as a Minimalist

Hello again, friends. For the past two weeks I have documented the numerous items my family no longer lives with as minimalists in my post The 100 Things I No Longer Own as a minimalist and The 100 More Things I No Longer Own as a minimalist. In each post I discussed that my end goal for becoming a minimalist was not simply to disinfect my home of affluenza, but to rid my life of distraction, discontentment, and to create my own version of Joie de vivre. I did this by challenging myself to go the contrarian route and list the first 100 things I no longer own.

This post wasn’t simply a list of things that I have gotten rid of because I wanted to immolate the life of anyone else, but a chronicle of the things I parted with in life to help me keep down from the Joneses. And I must say that it felt so cathartic to be able to document this personal minimalist progress in my life!

And so here is a list of 100 additional household items my family happily lives without:

Leftover wrapping paper- Recycled.
Business Card Holder- Unused, as I keep only a handful of my own cards in my tote. Donated.
Tea Infuser Pot- Unused. Donated.
Excessive mugs- 4 dozen Donated.
Receipts I didn’t need- Recycled.
Old t-shirts: Donated.
Dried flowers: Composted.
Silk Flowers: Dust magnets. Donated.
Overstretched hair ties and hair bands: Composted.
Old magazines: Donated to husband’s school library for art class collages.
Shoes that don’t fit or didn’t intend to wear: Sent to Thredup for store credit, in all 61 pairs donated.
Old cell phones- Sent to Gazelle.
Wooden spoons- Composted.
Salad Spinner- Donated.
Terra Cotta Taco Holders- Donated.
Earrings where I’ve lost one out the pair- Donated.
Scarves I never wear- Sold to Thredup for store credit.
Items of clothing that were too small for me- Donated.
Glass platters- Donated.
Old towels- Donated to animal shelter.
Old make-up- Tossed as it couldn’t be recycled. Replaced with natural options.
Plastic clothes hangers- Donated.
Expired cooking sauces- Composted.
Old college text books- Sold on half.com or donated to public library
Out-of-date medicine: Donated to Veterans Hospital.
Dried-up nail polish- Tossed. Replaced with natural options.
Electric Jewelry Cleaner- Unused and sold last Autumn.
Tea towels- Donated. We only use re-usable kitchen towels.
Paper towels- Used up our stash and not repurchased. See above.
Pet steps- Donated.
Polaroid Camera- Donated.
Mini Fridge- Sold last Autumn as it was never used.
Dust buster- Unused, sold last Autumn.
Corn cob holders- Donated.
Scratched non-stick cookware- Donated. We only use cast iron and stainless steel.
Swimwear- We rarely go swimming.
DVD’s- Sold to Amazon for store credit. We digitized our entire collection.
Hot Pot- Sold last Autumn, as it was unused often.
Plug-in holiday lights- We only use solar and battery light strands. Donated.
Calligraphy pens- Donated to my husband’s school.
Necklaces- Aside from a handful of precious stone, metal, and heirlooms, all else donated.
Fiber optic Cables- Donated.
Bed Skirts- Donated.
Empty bottles of cleaning products- Recycled.
Spare buttons- Donated.
Bath mats- One kept per bathroom in white, all else donated.
Malt glasses- Donated.
Espresso cups- Donated.
Flat bed pillows- Donated.
Comforters- We only use quilts now. Donated.
Old party invitations- Recycled.
Full tea service- Sold last Autumn.
Bike pump- Donated.
Electronic keyboard vacuum- Donated.
Jewelry Boxes — My jewelry hangs on an organizer. Donated
Trick-or-Treating Pumpkins- Recycled.
Old Holiday cards- Digitized and then recycled.
Post Card collection- Digitized and then recycled.
Bobby pins- Donated.
Crayon maker- Donated.
Containers missing their lids- Recycled.
Unused stationary, stickers and sticky notes- Donated.
Ripped jeans- Those not purposely worn for fashion, donated.
Old Phone cases- Donated.
Old Electronic chargers- Donated.
Old spices- Composted.
Worn-out bath sponges- Composted.
Ribbons and bows for gift wrap- Recycled.
Ribbon maker- Donated to my husband’s school.
Old lunch boxes- Donated.
Kids Book Shelf- Donated to local library.
Old coffee sacks- Donated to husband’s school’s art classes.
Loom- Donated to husband’s school.
Old files- Digitized, shredded, and recycled.
Old Playbills- Recycled.
Baby Bullet- Sold last Autumn.
Broken Christmas decorations- Recycled.
Fairy lights- Donated to women’s shelter for holiday decorations.
Ice trays- We have an electric ice maker. Donated
Expired food- Composted or tossed.
USB cables we never use- Donated.
Outdated software- Donated.
Floppy disks- Donated.
Shoe racks- We paired down shoes for capsule wardrobes. All others donated.
Glass cereal bowls- We kept a single dish set. Everything else donated.
Promotional T-shirts- Donated.
Old cereals- Composted.
Old bank statements- Digitized, shredded, and recycled.
Old utilities bills- Digitized, shredded, and recycled.
Box fans- Donated.
Unused Ethernet cords: Donated.
Mix tapes- Donated.
Bibles- We each kept one study, one devotional Bible, and our family Bible. All others donated.
Backgammon- Donated.
Basketballs- Donated.
Unused plungers- Donated.
Books we won’t read again: Sold on half.com, Amazon, or donated to public library.
Old DSL box- Donated.
Milk Steamer- Donated.
Electric knife- Donated.

Well that’s it folks, 100 additional common household items we no longer live with as a family. Items donated that help us step one foot closer to realizing our family dream of small, sustained, affordable minimalist living. Be sure to stay tuned for next Tuesday’s list of last of this series of the household items we no longer live with.

Here’s to living with less,

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My $26.45 Weekly Minimalist Meal Plan (Week 3)

Hello, hello everyone! Happy Meal Plan Monday! This week’s menu will be a continuation of this month’s Minimalist Meal Plan Monday’s.

Here’s a recap for those new to minimalist meal planning. There are the five categories I took into consideration when setting up this month’s minimalist meal plan:

Consistency: The goal of minimalist meal planning is to consistently prepare and present my family with home cooked, healthy meals each day this month.

Travel: I wanted meals that could be planned monthly in advanced and shopped for locally (I live in a small town with limited mass shopping or chain retailer options) either weekly or monthly, depending on need. As I shop in reverse, buying groceries on rock bottom pricing and then shop from my pantry, this keeps weekly food costs low. And in terms of monthly shopping as a minimalist, this week was the first week this month I purchased additional groceries which can be seen below:

Vanilla Bean Flavored Espresso, $1.00 (Submitted for $0.25 iBotta credit)
Hillandale 8-Count Eggs, $0.50
Hills Black Beans, $1.00
2 Mucinex 6-packs (each pack sells at Walmart for $4.98 each, a savings of $7.98)
Tie Farms Frozen Broccolli, $1.00 (Submitted for $0.25 iBotta credit)
2 Pict Sweet Steamables, $0.50 each
Total: $6.00 after rebates

1 bags of Celery, $0.49 each bag
BOGO Borden Shreds, $1.99 for both bags
White bread loaf, $0.49
Vowell’s Kosher Salt Canister, $0.39
10 pounds bag of red potatoes, $1.50
Oreo Singles, $0.69 each (Submitted for $1.00 off two from Checkout51)
18-count eggs, $1.50
2 Vowell’s brand gluten-free pasta, $0.69 per bag
Total: $6.43 after rebates

Value brand strawberry yogurt 4-pack, $1.00
2 bags of Carrots, $0.69 per bag
Sweet potatoes, $1.58 per bag (submitted for 20% back with Saving Star App)
2 Dr. Thunder 2-liters, $0.88 each
Value brand wipes, $0.88
Value brand Unsweetened Almond Milk half gallon, $2.68
Value brand toilet paper 4-packs, $0.58 each
Smithfield marinated pork roast, $5.01 (submitted for $2.00 iBotta rebate)
2 Suave body washes, $1.29 each (submitted for $1.00 iBotta rebate)
Organic Blue Agave, $3.98 (submitted for $1.00 iBotta rebate)
Ajax, $0.88 (submitted for $0.20 iBotta rebate)
Zote bar, $0.98 (submitted for $0.50 iBotta rebate)
Antacids, $0.88 (submitted for $0.50 MobiSave rebate)
Total: $17.08 after rebates

To create your own minimalist meal plan, think about which dinners are your family’s favorites that don’t take too much effort to prepare.
Consider which do you prefer to cook?
Think comfort meals. Think simple and keep it basic.
When creating your meal calendar this week assign one meal to each day of the week, taking into account school, work, and activity schedules. Leave your least busy days for meals that take the most amount of time to prepare.
Leave one day open each week for creativity in the kitchen, for ethnic, slow-cooked, heavy on the ingredient, new to you from Pinterest meals for weekends or Tuesday and Thursdays when poser usage rates nationally tend to be 20-30% lower on average. Focus on energy, your own and your household power usage as well!
Themes can be your best friend in minimalist cooking plans. Think Meatless Monday’s, Meatball Monday’s, Taco Tuesdays, Tofu Tuesday’s, Stirfry Wednesday’s, and Slow-Cooker Sunday’s!
Adjusting two meals a week to meatless options can help lower your grocery budgets by a quarter each month. This month we will be trying to expand Meatless Monday’s to also be Meatless Thursday’s as well.
This month breakfast, snacks, and lunches will be standardized. We will be having sandwiches for lunch, cereal and smoothies for breakfast. And yes you could do without snacks and increase lunch and breakfast portions, but I find smaller meals several times a day work better for my health, and so that’s how we will be rolling.

So what does this leave me with? My new monthly minimalist meal plan will consist of default meals streamlined around items already on-hand that require less than a half hour to prepare, and cost under $5.00 per meal to create.

Cost of food shopped from pantry and freezer: $26.45

So, that’s what we will be having this week. I’d love to hear what’s on your menu as well!

Here’s to Monday meal plans,

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DIY Organic Daily Shower Cleaner

Hello again, savvy savers! With many of us elbow-deep in Spring cleaning projects and chores, I thought that this would be a great time to post the recipe for one of my favorite go-to organic cleaners, $0.25 DIY Organic Daily Shower Cleaner!

What sets this cleaner apart is that like it’s commercial namesake, this blend is natural, organic, and safe for all members of your family to use daily. Here’s how to make it:

DIY, Organic Daily Shower Cleaner, Only $0.25!

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Hello again, savvy savers! With many of us in the midst of Spring Cleaning Chores I thought this weeks Tutorial Tuesday's Post should center around cleaning! This week I want to share with you all my DIY, all-natural, organic Daily Shower Cleaner Recipe! This blend is super simple to make, and smells as great as it cleans! With a $0.25 price tag for a month's worth of uses, this will be your new go-to daily shower cleaner, too! Here's how to make it:

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Prep Time

5 min

Total Time

5 min

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups water
1 cup white vinegar
1/2 cup rubbing alcohol
1 teaspoon castile soap
15 drops lemon essential oil
15 drops tea tree essential oil
15 drops lavender essential oil
Spray bottle

Instructions

Mix all the ingredients together in a quart-sized spray bottle.
Shake well.
Spray onto shower surfaces every day after use.

Notes

Please note, my blend, and any other daily shower cleaner, is designed as a maintenance spray, so I would suggest starting with a clean shower first. It won’t remove built-on grime by itself, it’ll just slow down the process. Enjoy!

By MissLaughsLot (@LDYPrefers2Save)

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