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12-23-2011, 10:02 AM #1Registered User
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2012 goals starting next week?
Will anyone here start working on their 2012 goals next week?
We do. For me and my household, I always start next year the day after Christmas.
I am making a long list of things I would like to improve on for next year and I kinda like getting a jump start on it so I don't feel sooo pressured to start on New Year's Day...LOL.Mom to Sara Louise (11) Wife to wonderful hubby Chad
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12-23-2011, 10:11 AM #2
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Mostly home repairs and replacement of appliances and our mattress. Lots of painting if I can. A tree cut on the side of our house.
We would like to relace 1 vehicle but...
Hope DD continues for her computer certs. and we will help w/ the cost of that
Help Ds amap w/ college tuition.
Prob. have to say goodbye to a few of our older animals (141/2-12 1/2 category)
weightloss as usual
Clear out and organize the food pantry stockpile
Pay extra on the mortgage to get it almost finished
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VanVivCam: We're working on our goals. I'll be starting up a 20 Wishes Challenge thread for 2012 after Christmas. Lots to think about before then. The 20 Wishes are the 20 biggest goals a person wants to accomplish. ETA: this year's 20 wishes thread is here. For anyone interested.
2012 Challenges
Use it up Challenge
20 Wishes Challenge: 1/20
Lose-a-pound-a-week Challenge: 24/52 (since spring 2011)
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I have been working them in my head for 2012 already....I will probably spend the evening of the 31st writing them down and making a list...we never do anything for New Years Eve so I use that night to say goodbye to this year...and make the list of goals for the next!
Dh Bob
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DS (21) at Lakehead U - go Thunderwolves!
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2012 Exercise Challenge - 5,358 min
2012 Water Challenge - 7,330 oz
May No Spend Days - 0 /20
Wasted money - May total - $0
2012 Change Jar - $ 37.20
No Eat Out - 114 /365
2012 Reading Challenge - 3 /12
2012 Home Project - May - 4 totes 0 /4, organizing laundry room
20 Wishes Challenge - 3/20
12,400 /36,500 squats
2012 Coupon Challenge - $416.06
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We have been fin e tunning the 2012 budgets here...have some big goals in 2012...the $20000 extra on prinical is a huge one for Us...going to sell some jewelery to make it happen...would be awesome to hit 2013 with a principal oweing $50000.00
On Baby Step # 6
Principal amount oweing $74,408
Living like no one else,so later we can live like no one else.
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I am working on my goals for 2012 and will participate in the Twenty Wishes challenge again. It helps keep me focused and purpose driven through the year.
2012 Project Challenges:
2012 Home Project Organizational Challenge (May:paint upstairs bedroom and move mattress set in- bonus task:paint sitting room-- June: TBD!)
2012 Twenty Wishes Challenge: 0/20 complete :-)
May recipe: Something involving a grill!
Just trying to keep on keeping on!
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I plan to get back to eating better and exercising starting Tuesday. There, I've said it publicly.
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20 Wishes Challenge: 6/25
Use It Up Challenge: 0 UFOs finished
Monthly sewing challenge: Seat cover for truck, pockets on go bag
2011 Home Project Organizational Challenge: Sort eight boxes
Self-Sufficiency Challenge: Attach ledger for deck
Homesteading Skill-A-Month Challenge: Make four WW recipes 0/4
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Yep...I've already started, actually. I've got a LONG list for 2012 so my challenge will be to review that list regularly and make short-term goals to help me reach the long-term (by the end of the year) goals.
May Goals:
Only $300 for groceries this month - $206/$300
Monthly coupon/valued customer savings = $14.08
No wasted food!
Stick to budget!
Track spending DAILY
Get checkbook balanced
Save $200 toward EF: $85/$200
2012 FV Challenges: Try New Recipes Challenge: 22/52, Menu Planning Challenge: 21/52, Grocery Reduction Budget Challenge, Change Jar Challenge: $27.81 as of 1-14-12, Lose A Pound A Week Challenge: 3/48, No Wasted Food Challenge
2012 Goals
1. To pay off CC (only $917.15 left!) and never again charge more than I can pay off each month.
3.Snowball the CC and Sears card payments into hospital bill (due w/ Baby #2 via C-section in mid-January). Pay that off ASAP.4. Snowball payments into DH's student loan (as of 12/4/11 there's still $4770.84 remaining). Pay off by 12/31/12.
5. Keep our grocery budget to $300 each month.
6. Use Dave Ramsey's budget sheet and get on track with this each pay period.
7. Get and keep checkbook balanced and keep an eye (weekly if not daily) on our e-statements.
8. Get savings account up to $8,000 (incl. emergency fund)
9. Make 2 Christmas gifts per month: 0/24.
10. Get our home organized: use a receipt book, keep my coupon organizer in check, have a touch-once policy for paper (touch once and then file or toss).
11. Achieve "give or get" goal of $1500 for the board I serve on by 9/30/12.
12. Taxes filed by March 17.
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I am making out my 2012 goals as we speak. There is a lot, but hopefully we can make it
Kellie
2012 Challenges
Reading challenge 6/52
Lose a pound challenge 3/50
Homestead challenge - Clean out gazebo
Home Project challenge - Plant garden/work on bedroom
Gocery Budget Challenge - 0/300
Coupon Saving challenge - 82.23
April Goals
1. Clean out dad's apartment - partially done
2. Work on his taxes-done and mailed
3. Track expenses - have to really work on this one
4. Find more freebies
5. find ways to reduce expenses since won't have a job after this month
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I usually take the week between Christmas and New Years to really think about my goals. We've got a lot of stuff coming up next year, so I'm having a hard time deciding on what's going to be realistic to accomplish.
Loving wife to DH (8/31/03) and Mommy to Owen Alexander (9/20/06)
Baby #2 due 5/30/2012
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Have been thinking about this for a few weeks now. Will get my list together, and get it posted
Mel
Wife to DH Rick for 24 yrs
DD 27
DS 24
DD 23
and the lights of my life DGS 2(it really doesn't seem that he should be 2
Oma is not sure she is a fan of this. and DGD 6 months.
And of course the furbabies Sir Scooby, Mr. Dusty, and Luke a Duke; all furry four pawed guys, who are my constant shadows at home
2012 Challanges
2012 Crochet Corner - using up the stash ...
2012 Craft & Hobby Supplies Use It Up Challenge
Fling 2012 Things in 2012 Challenge! 208 items to date
2012 No Spend Challenge
2012 Change Jar Challenge 6.90
2012 Grocery Budget Reduction Challenge
January Dinner Challenge: Five Bucks, Five Times a Week -
2012 Home Project Organizational Challenge - 1 side of the kitchen done
2012 Pantry Inventory and Menu Challenge
2012 One-Thing-Only Goal -started
2012 Lose-A-Pound-A-Week Challenge
Homestead projects for 2012
2012 goals
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Dh and I have had a couple of chats about our 2012 goals already. The list is long but our fingers are crossed that we can work through them all this next year!!! The biggest is getting rid of the debt (12/12/12 is the goal) and I honestly believe if we can do that all the other things will fall into place as well!
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I've been turning some over in my head all week. Im gonna devote a notebook to just my goals for 2012. Need to sit eith dh for some home repair goals and some financial ones. Then i have a few personal development things i wanna work on
Reba
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
2012 STATS
Reading Challenge 8/50
No Spend Days
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I've already started thinking on them...will do the fine tuning thing next week into the week after.
Wife to DH
~ 15 years
Mom to DD ~ 14 yrs old
Mom to DS ~ 24 yrs old
Fur mom to Nikko - Rottweiler, 
Maxx - German Shepherd-(my avatar pic), and Reno - Husky/Chow mix.
*Rest peacefully my sweet Maxx*
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Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven
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2012 Challenges
Grocery budget~$/$300
No spend days~/31 *Goal 15/31 days
No eat out days~1/31 *Goal 15/31 days
EF - /$1000.00
Christmas fund - $110/$350
Weekly Menu challenge - /52
YTD Coupon total - $2173
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12-24-2011, 10:30 PM #15Licence to Kill
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Dh and I have a lot of things we need to accomplish this coming year. I should really write them down and get motivated!
Kace - married to Dh 12 years
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Full-time homemaker, part-time worker, college student. Always pinchin' pennies!
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