Yes, several things:
- Cut your hair yourself? No need to pay huge amounts of money for some fringes and "degradees" - start slowly and get lost.
- Buy a long evening dress at Zara, H&M or Mango - great stuff out there, for very affordable money. After all it is mad to spend huge amounts of good cash if you do not walk the Red Carpet in Cannes on a regular basis. And then the girls there always rent their clothes....
- Find a seamstress ( and then please share the adress...) and get going to design your own dresses? Look out in magazines and make a lookbook for yourself alone.
- Promise never again to buy coloured loo paper? White is the colour to have. Basta.
- Give 5/10/20/ $/ £/ Euro for a good cause in your area ( easy to be found out if you ask...) and once a month give an afternoon to help out there. You know where the money goes to and the feeling of doing something good will do you good as well.
- Think about purchasing a real carpet? They should be as big as you can squeeze in your living room and not, I repeat, not 1 meter long and 50 cm wide. Go to auction houses, there are thrown out there at a prices which make me weep.
- Start painting and pottery and gardening in your sparetime instead of going only to the gym? So much more refreshing and food for thought too.
- Invent a new signature dish and cook it at least once a week? I learned only late in life that I have a son who for years and years lives on Nutella,bread and milk but loves Curries in all varieties. Off we go!
- Promise NOT to use Botox. It ALWAYS shows.
- Use organic oils to moisturize your face instead of super expensive face creams? So much more natural and cheaper - and great value in skin maintainance too. Go in an organic shop and have a look for Macadamia or Sesame oil, Hazelnut or Wheat germ. Mix your own stuff.
- Laugh more?
- Hear your old Charles Aznavour and Yves Montand Cds on a rainy sunday afternoon while cleanining up your desk?
- Sleep with open windows and let the light and birds wake you up at dawn - use the time as "Me-Time" before the rest of the house has to get up. ( Ok, better advice for summer, but until then I will forget).
- Throw out all bedlinnen made of polyester? Gasthly stuff. Nobody wants to sleep in it. Money is no excuse ( I only say: Ikea...). This is a horrid mistake in good taste.
- Edit your summer clothes, now, as the winter months have started.
Get rid of everything, which does not fit/please/talk to you any more, is not in pristine condition and make ROOM for thought, not old clothes!
- Allocate Beauty in all its forms a much more prominent place in your life? Every day of your life counts.
Anyway, your life and happiness lies in your own hands.
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