General Lifestyle
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Stepping in to 2026
All of a sudden, 2026 is here. A whole new year, a chance to leave the last one behind, ‘new year, new me’ and all of the other nonsense people say when December 31st turns into January 1st. I’m not necessarily one for New Years Resolutions, but I do like challenges and I appreciate an excuse to take stock and reevaluate where needed. One of the things I am really looking at this year is money. I want to spend less and save more. And while it seems simple when you say it like that, it never quite seems to go that way! Use It or Lose It in 2026…
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Getting Reacquainted with Life
Look, I’ll admit it – I’m a terrible blogger. I go in all guns blazing and then life happens and I forget about it for the best part of a year. There are mixed reasons for this – so let’s just start at the start! I ended 2024 feeling pretty on top of the world – things were starting to feel like they were balancing out and I was in a good place in most aspects of my life. Then a series of things went wrong. I lost one of my freelance roles in the first week of January, had to take my dog to the vet multiple times in…
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Welcome to Make Life Feel Better!
I’m sure I’m not alone in being the kind of person who has started blog after blog over the years. Some of you might remember me as a fashion blogger from a life before I started Make Life Feel Better, others as an activist, some as a planner, and I’ve even poured my heart out in far too many old LiveJournal posts that I’m too scared to look up and find out if they actually exist anymore. Most who are here won’t know me as a blogger at all, but as someone who shares what they’re eating every day on TikTok in videos that begin with the annoyingly repetitive “my…
