My 12 Goals for 2017 : Week 29 of 52

My goals for 2017

Get 7- 8 Hours of Sleep Each Night

Wow. So yesterday was the big neighborhood yard sale and I must have been more tired than I thought because I hit the off button on my alarm, and fell back asleep until 8 am this morning. Sleep. It does a body good. So does 3 ibuprofen for aching muscles. 😉

Make Saving a Priority, Not an Idea

On Friday the frame my eyeglasses broke. Which, of course was totally lame. In years past I’ve bought my classes from Costco but always had to pay of out pocket for them and then submit the claim myself to our insurance company. Which always took such a long time. So this year I decided to make an appointment with a local optometrist and just get my glasses through them so I didn’t have to pay anything out of pocket up front {because they accept our insurance plan}.

Yada yada yada, my appointment isn’t until Tuesday and then it will be another 7 days wait to get my new glasses.  So I’ve decided I’m just go to my appointment and then stay home for the rest of the week {I wanted to anyway} so I don’t have to go out in public with broken glasses.

Visit 52 REAL Bakeries

No time for pastries this week but thanks to Carolyn from New Hampshire, I have a whole pile of bakeries {and thrift stores and gardens} to check out when we’re on the east coast next time. Thanks Carolyn!

Have 1 “no spend” week each month

I had a no spend week earlier this month and may do another one next week, we’ll see.

Start a Line of Rug Hooking Patterns

So far I have 8 rug hooking patterns listed in my Etsy shop with 3 more drawn out but not completed. I’m finding it hard to get much done right now {the weather is so nice!} and that’s okay. As long as I get 12 patterns done by the end of the year I’ll be able to mark this goal off my list.

Turn My Wool Stash into $2,500. Mission Accomplished

Last week I sold a whopping $327.45 in my Etsy shop! 1 set of sunflowers and the rest, hand dyed wool. That brings my total to $4679.76  in my Etsy shop and Ebay store this year. Wahooo!

Purge 250 Items Including Selling Larger Items We No Longer Feel We Need

The Girl and I ended up making $704 at the yard sale yesterday! Yee-Haw! And the best part? We went home with only 2 items. The loaf pan you see above and my parents wooden coffee table {which I adore and was hoping wouldn’t sell anyway}. We used the coffee table in our last house and LOVED it but just don’t have a place for it here. I told myself if the table didn’t sell then we meant to have it in our next place. 😉 And so I guess we are.

All the treasures that we didn’t sell were sent directly to our local thrift store that donates it’s profits to the local high school scholarship fund. IT FEELS SO GOOD to have all that stuff finally out of our garage. This week I’ll work on tidying up the garage and getting it shiny clean. Go Fight Win.

So far this year we have purged 223 items.

Learn to Crochet Mission Accomplished

Dote on My Husband Even More Than I Do Now.

My husband. He’s the greatest. But because I woke up late this morning his breakfast in bed will have to wait until this post is done. 😉 Ha! He’s such a good sport. Work has been kind of tough lately and he’s been putting in a lot of hours but we have a sort of “anniversary” vacation trip planned for later in the year so hopefully he can get some down time in.

Lose the Muffin Top. {again} Mission Accomplished

Wear out {most of} the clothing I already own.

Working on it. Though with the new turtlenecks from my mother and all those clothes from the $8.00 bag sale my closet feels full again.

Try 52 New Recipes

I made a new Quinoa salad this past week!

Read 52 Books

Last week I downloaded Hillbilly Elegy and Kiss Me Like a Stranger from Hoopla. I finished recommend Hillbilly Elegy and cannot recommend it enough. I am about halfway through Kiss Me Like a Stranger and so far so good. I don’t know about you, but I love it when the original author does the voice work for their own audio book. So much more feeling comes out of it.

Give Back to 12 Different Organizations in My Community

January – Donated to Quilts from the Heart in Memory of my brother.
February – Donated to Empty Bowls Fundraiser for the Boys and Girls Club.
March – Donated to my daughter’s mentor who was in a horrible car accident.
April – Donated again to my daughter’s mentor who was in a horrible car accident.
May – $100 Tip to a waitress on Mother’s day.
June – Started collecting men’s shirts to donate this winter.
July –

And then, there’s those top secret goals we’re not talking about yet.

• Secret Goal #1 Sell East Coast House Mission Accomplished
• Secret Goal #2 Chickens! Mission Accomplished
• Secret Goal #3
• Secret Goal #4

How about YOU? Did you set any goals for 2017? How are they coming along?

~Mavis

Read About My 2017 Goals HERE.