02 Monday Nov 2026
Posted in Cheat sheet, Financial Living, having bad days, Planning 2026, Printables, Weekly posts
Hello! School is back. My son has an inset day so got one more day off and then back tomorrow and Autumn can be the great season to save. Here are some tips:
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Have a good week.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
21 Wednesday Oct 2026
The temperature in the UK is starting to drop and noticed other countries are adjusting to the climate and the colder weather too and not felt it until now and it is time to decide on how your going to adjust and the time will change in a few weeks and can make many feel out of zinc and my son has often become ill during the sudden change of temperature.
It is coming to the end of the Autumn Reset and it means I need to get my skates on to complete my book and finally have edited and so making the most of the time and my son is eager for me to have another shelf in my bedroom and wants to paint it for me so I hope my husband can arrange as he has said and my main focus as I have decluttered and then next year I want to sort out getting a new bed and my sons room may be put on hold but be good to get my book done and it is okay if you do not finish. Perhaps its just doing what you can what you want to focus on just one thing.
I want to put some clothes away and like to rotate my clothes and declutter if something is no longer needed and got more to get rid of and so if I can clear at least one area then this will satisfy me and please share how your Autumn reset’s gone and reflecting is good to know that I have done something and it is where I am at at the moment. If I can get my room finished to where I want it too and my book edits completed then I am happy with that and can chill and work on other projects during the winter and I am putting a vlog together of what I am getting rid of. Check out my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Carriechalloner
If you feel confident about it then sell some items some members of my family do. I prefer to recycle and donate. If it has no place then it goes and been going through my make up, skincare and books.
I didn’t realise you could sell books on Vinted too aswell as clothes. I did used to sell things on EBAY but was scammed and so this put me off. I love designing so would like to design my own clothes and notebooks. I am using on of my own notebooks and plan to sell it, not sure what platform yet, but may be at the start of January.
My Winter Wellness programme will begin at 9th December and will run until end of December then in January I am taking a month break from my blogs as such but will still do Cheat Sheets and my newsletter, but want to build a new site on my google blogger network and closing some and working on a two series of books and so be back in February once Christmas is over and end of the year, there won’t be other blogs and will still film on my Youtube channel, X and Substack.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
20 Tuesday Oct 2026
Posted in Printables, Monthly Newsletter, Celebrating, Monthly posts, Planning 2026
It is that time of the month. No not my cycle but a newsletter and share some content I am putting together like a gift guide and it is half term. The time is going so fast that I have to catch my breath and means planning for Halloween, Guy Fawkes, birthdays and then Christmas.
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I will be taking my son on his first plane ride. I will do a packing vlog I think and some of our trip to Scotland but see how it goes. I feel it is good to take one day at a time because he may not like it, but I feel he will love it and been my first plane since 2012.
I really you have a good half term and be ready for the next term ready for Christmas.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
19 Monday Oct 2026
Posted in Celebrating, Cheat sheet, Financial Living, Planning 2026, Printables, Weekly posts
So many Christmases this year will be tight with prices going up on Utilities and so it can be a worry for people.
Remember you don’t have to buy a gift for everyone and you can split the costs by having people contribute and why I budget and make sure I have money for emergencies and that a gift doesn’t have to materialistic in fact I bought my nieces one year to feed the Giraffes at Chessington and so it can be clothes not worn or a simple as a notebook what I received as a birthday gift this year.
In this weeks Cheat Sheet are tips on Saving for Christmas:
I am filming a gift guide so will be up on my Youtube channel soon. https://www.youtube.com/@Carriechalloner
I hope you find this helpful and if you have tips then please share. There is a comment section below and subscribe so you will be notified of when I post.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
05 Monday Oct 2026
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I like short tasks because like many I lead a busy life. Looking after the home, being a mum, doing voluntary work, creating books amongst other things and my son goes to sports clubs, I can feel overwhelmed so will do bits at a time and that way I don’t burn out and listen to what my mind and body wants.
So here are some quick tasks that I hope help you, that help me:
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Have a good week ahead.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
30 Wednesday Sep 2026
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09 Wednesday Sep 2026
It is good season because it is time to let things go, restart and for me is my favourite season as I plan projects, getting my home in order and getting my son ready for school and is a good time to complete and why I set up my autumn reset programme so we can finish tasks and I building up my health by exercising more and changing my eating habits with a few naughty foods, but try alternatives.
I love a soup and a roll and today by not buying so many processed foods and getting more whole foods, which has helped me spend less on my weeks shop. I am realising that it is good to have a mixture of things. It has helped me, watching those cooking on Instagram. It has helped me cook homemade meals and puddings again which can be good it all depends on what it is and I do feel better for it.
I suppose this may be the worst thing, but I like the dark mornings. I like to have time to read and since doing that I have felt so good and have list of things I’d like to do, like having a coffee up at Wimbledon Village, having a coffee in Gail’s and walking to Ashtead Village and have a coffee and so still do some walking and just good time to plan a countryfied walk and enjoying where I live.
There was a time where I’d find it hard getting up in the mornings but this morning I felt good and I like to get back wearing my tracksuit bottoms and where I have a bath, wear a T-Shirt and PJ bottoms but altering my wardrobe this autumn. I am getting rid of my current PJ’s as I prefer bottoms that have pockets and this is the same with shorts, tracksuit bottoms and Jeans.
It is good to have a clean up and I used to do Seasonal Clean ups on my Youtube channel, let me know if you want me to bring these back. The link to my Youtube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/@Carriechalloner I like having a clear out and check out recent video I did about having a health reset this year: https://youtu.be/kWeigemntCs
Doing a meal plan even if it is a scrap piece of paper, what I tend to use. I am recycling a lot this year and saving bits of paper, I am having a quiet coffee or tea. This is in the morning and I do have some mugs I use in the Autumn. Check out this blog post: Taking The Time to Just Enjoy Your Coffee Inc. Weekly Cheat Sheet and seen some nice new mugs in Waitrose so going to take a trip and may buy and change up my mugs for Autumn as in some areas I like investing in new things for the home and it is good to start a fresh and that is what makes an autumn reset for me and lets do it together and perhaps set up a group. This may be for the future but let me know what you think? You can leave a comment below.
So lets enjoy and have those nice cosy drinks and food, along with a new mindset to get those tasks you’ve not managed to finish done.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
28 Friday Aug 2026
It is the end and I hope that you enjoyed it. I hope you made changes to your life you wanted to.
I have now had a wake up call. I had a ultrasound on my stomach and it appears I have a fatty Liver and so need to change my diet and so taking action and had more of what I had last year which was my goal and so far being the summer holidays I have had seen my life grow doing a challenge check out my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carriechalloner/, took Henry out by myself to St Albans City, just me and my son and completed. Done more walking and its been good.
So I hope you found my Worksheet/Printable helpful and now my Autumn Reset will be starting to get all those projects you’ve put off for the summer and complete and will be free content but will subscribers only and begins 1st September.
See you then.
Carrie X
17 Monday Aug 2026
Please see this weeks Cheat Sheet. It will be last one done using AI to help me as I feel like I am cheating you and I don’t want that and will be back to me write them completely and this one I felt helpful with the help of AI. Let me know how you feel about them. Use the comment section below.
They are free to download and print.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
10 Monday Aug 2026
Yesterday in the coffee shop with my Husband and son I, saw this lady who wasn’t on her phone or reading or anything but enjoying her coffee. She looked a bit like Celine Dion and it made me realise that sometimes just having time just taking in the moment is much better than looking at a phone or not watching what is around you.
This made me think of a challenge. I am doing a challenge for August. Doing 100 squats a day for the month to raise money for Cancer Research: https://youtu.be/oaImghC1on0
So in September doing my Autumn Reset going to challenge myself to write my blogs, sort out my sons and my bedroom, complete the editing of my next book as the Reset will continue into October, is to do all those thing in silence taking the moment. Not have music on, tv or Youtube and enjoy my coffee. Not on my laptop or phone drinking but sit in the garden as we go into Autumn and just enjoy the moment.
On the train coming back from London, see Vlog: https://youtu.be/eZ3sHtml_8k on train I decided to not be on my phone and enjoy the journey. On the train to London looking around every one was engrossed on their laptops and phones that I realised have we lost the will to use travel to chat with people~? I think we just so concerned on what is on social media to look and chat. I feel we want to be liked on Instagram to feel adequate. So it will be a realisation for me. I am going to use my laptop to write but not with music on or a video on. Be on my phone too much and enjoy a coffee like that lady without a book or notebook and enjoy the moment better and see what happens.
This weeks Cheat Sheet which with the help of AI I have created on challenging yourself. My Autumn Reset will be the first subscriber only content, but will still be free to read and will be from the start of September to the end of October.
There are many challenges you can do and I really feel I am ready to take on more. Just to say my blogs are not written by AI and are from me, I just needed a little help with my Cheat sheets and that I have been learning from them too.
Do walking challenges. I challenge myself to walk, 4000 steps a day instead of 10,000 too much so be realistic and there are writing challenges too. I often do sprints from 10 to 30 minutes not consecutively as that is not realistic to me and there are loads you can do on Youtube but only using this to help make sure I don’t go over time.
So take sometime to just enjoy your coffee and take in the world and not have headphones in or on the phone and just be free to chat with someone. It is good to look around you and sit and not have any noise.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
