On Mondays, I will be running an original post from either myself or a Revolution member involving snowflaking in some way, shape, or form - from ideas, to implementations to thoughts about methods or anything else imaginable. If you are a Snowflake Revolution member and have a topic you’d like featured, contact me!

For snowflaking to be effective, it needs to be frequent. There are different levels of frequency of course, and different abilities at different times. Sometimes snowflakes can fall like a light flurry, and sometimes they create a blizzard. But why many times, people get frustrated with snowflaking or don’t see progress being made, is because of the frequency. Small amounts do add up, but one snowflake a month is simply, one snowflake. If a single snowflake falls, most people don’t even notice it, and it melts before it builds up to anything significant. This can be said for financial snowflakes as well. If you make a $2 overpayment to your credit card once a year, you’re not going to see any difference at all. That’s an extreme example, but it illustrates the point that small amounts do add up, but the emphasis is on the plural “amounts”.

Make sure that you’re considering the frequency of your snowflaking when evaluating your overall progress. If you do not have the ability to snowflake frequently, track the total amount over a longer period of time to see progress. Each extra amount does make a difference, but the smaller the amounts, the more of them added together it will take to feel a satisfying change in your financial position.

Don’t let frequency be your enemy. Try to find one way to add more frequent snowflakes to your pile, be it a small source of alternative income, a continuing way to be frugal, or another place where you can find a snowflake in your budget that can recur over time. Just make sure to keep your snowflakes classified as snowflakes!