Christmas Spirit Extended: Downsized & Donated Items to my @hivecebubloggers Family! | Hive Cebu Bloggers Mini Meet Up

Have you ever downsized and realized how much stuff you have, and most of these are no longer used on a regular basis?

We plan in moving out from our current two-bedroom place to a smaller one, even a studio unit! The smaller the better, fewer things, less space to keep up the cleaning. A I mentioned in my previous blog, we don’t have a helper anymore and my baby is allergic to our cats, so not having our place fully cleaned every day made him suffer for a few nights now. So we are now in a process of downsizing a lot of our things.

I sent a message on a group chat to see who can drop by at my place to get the items. At first, we planned on selling the stuff but we have so much stuff that I do not have to luxury of time to deal with the buyers and wait on every person to pick up the stuff. To be honest, I was a little upset at first that my partner all of a sudden decided to just get rid of so much stuff yesterday because I could have planned better in distributing the items but we were both stressed looking at our messy place. Who else has six fans at home and still has air conditioning (this was even before the typhoon)? And we don’t even use the other four fans on a regular basis. It was just stuck in the backroom and now that we still don’t have electricity in our condominium because the generator has problems so, we don’t even use any of the fans anymore.

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So, we gave away four fans, one of the fans is an industrial fan, my partner decided to donate it to the lobby guards who work for our building, that way they all can use it. Plus, it would be hard to sell because of its price and really giving it to people that we personally know is a lot more rewarding to us. These people had been helping us with different stuff since we lived in our condo.

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We had so many random stuff, baby’s stuff toys, and even toys that he got for Christmas which he won’t be able to play with yet coz it’s way too advanced for his age and we don’t want to keep it in the cabinet for a long time.

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_{Make Ups}

I had random make ups that I know I haven't touched since pandemic and I still bought a new one this Christmas just because. Even am already being frugal my my spending compared before and I mostly spend things for my baby now.

_{Our Version of Bath Tub in the Philippines!} 😅

I bought four of these bins since we didn't have tap water, but thankfully the city water truck finally delivered water to our area. So, I disposed of three of the bins and one saved one for my baby's bath. Look, isn't he so cute in his new version of the baby tub! Lol, But even if we have running water, we cannot afford to waste it so thankfully took rinsed off before he got in the bin before I used that water to take a bath.

Mini Meet Up | @Hivecebubloggers 6th Month Bday!

If you missed our article posted on @hivecebubloggers page and my Twitter post, we had reached another milestone!

"Our little community is already six months old now, and we're so glad to have spent six months together with each of you, Hivers! Although we're not celebrating it as fancy as the past celebrations due of the recent onslaught of a super typhoon, we're hoping to celebrate more days, months, and years as a Hive Community. A few years ago, our founder had no idea that a simple hobby of blogging will generate such a lovely community and family. We're glad everything have been working out, and we have no plan on turning back"

Although I didn't managed my time to make some good food because my partner and I were so busy cleaning up and putting way the stuff. And these was all I could afford yesterday...

I had been craving this since after the typhoon! =D

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But wait we have a cake!!! Yay!

At least my partner baked us something since still we the box of cake mix that we bought for New year but we just a dessert from a bakery so we didn't have to have a lot of dirty dishes, we had canned blueberry sauce in the cabinet. This tells us that we don't mind not eating real food as long as we have some dessert, ehehe.

@sassycebuana and @gwenfinity came first and after a couple of minutes, @cheerupwithjl arrived too. It was really nice to catch up with these amazing people since we haven't seen each of ever since the typhoon and you all know how we love to always gather even just for coffee time.

Before the left, I also distributed some goods that my partner had bought,its all noodles and one can. I didn't even feel like giving it away but I think it's better than nothing. Became I read felt the tough time became I had not been able to eat some good food since the new years eve. At least we had pizza for new year, lol!

These goods were donated by @filipinajourney. That was really nice of her to even drop the goods at my place. ❤️

Later the afternoon, @asasiklaude and @jeennicious and they were able to brought some stuff too and some goods.

I will be seeing again my @hivecebubloggers family on the 15th of January, and hope I can fund the goods to distribute some more goods In my own little way. The same day, we will also do a Hive Promotion and will keep you posted on this activity, @cheerupwithjl is now working on organising this event. We were able to discuss this activity while my baby was busy with his colouring book, haha. Phew! Motherhood and Hive life!

Huge thanks to all the hcbc contributors, you all know who you are! ❤️

Special thanks to @theycallmedan for the massive support, to @justinparke and @wil.metcalfe for the constant support to our @hivecebubloggers members!

Of course, thank you so much for all your little upvotes, it means a lot to me and to my HCBC family.

Xo,
Gil