My Goals for This Year – Week 29 of 52

1. Get Organized. 

I finally got around to buying bike hooks for the garage. We had these same ones at our last house, and they are the bomb diggety. Super strong and pretty inexpensive.

2. Run, walk or crawl a Marathon, half marathon, 10k, and 5k race this year.

About that half marathon. It’s tomorrow. And it will be a small miracle if I finish standing up seeing how last month all I ate was survival food, and then last week and part of this week I was super sick {more about that below}. But here’s the thing. I already paid to participate and signed up to do the race with one of my favorite people. I know I can walk it, but it’s a small race and I’d hate to be the one to hold the race officials up. Gaaa. The things I get myself into.

3. Remodel our Master Bathroom, Master Closet and Monkey Boy’s Bathroom.  Done.

4. Finish Every Room in Our House.

I feel like I am doing pretty good in this area with the exception of 2 things:

1. I still have a lot of painting to do {I’m saving it for the chilly days of fall/winter}

2. I need to get stuff hung on the walls.

5. Turn Spare Bedroom into a Cozy Home Office Space for myself.  Done.

6. Create a Vegetable Garden.

Yesterday I set up the grow lights in the laundry room and planted my fall vegetable garden seeds. If all goes as planned I should be setting out seedlings around the end of August for my fall vegetable garden.

7. Build a Path into the Hillside for Easy Access to the Upper Garden.  Done. We built a fence instead. It’s so nice to be able to add things to my compost pile in privacy! 😉

8. Limit my personal spending to $100 a month.

Okay, so being sick for 8 days was LAME. If I had only held out going to the doctor I could have saved myself a $35 co-pay and needless testing to find out all I had was FOOD POISONING. How or where I got it I have no idea. And technically it wasn’t a personal expense, but I’m still peeved about the whole thing because I hate spending money of medical stuff. It makes me crazy.

I had meant to a few garage sales this morning but didn’t get out the door early enough so I didn’t bother {everyone knows the early bird gets the worm}. So all I have to show for my frugal efforts this week is a $4.50 dish drying rack. What can I say? Some weeks I’ve got it together, and other weeks, not so much.

So far in July I have spent $50.82

In June I spent $6.00.
In May I spent $26.50.
In April I Spent $18.46.
In March I Spent $42.44.
In February I Spent $32.52
In January I Spent $84.33

9. Purge… Weekly. Find 10 things each week to donate to the thrift store. 

I went well over the 520 items I was hoping to get rid of this year either by donating them to the thrift store or selling items at our garage sale this year. Mission accomplished. I earned $473 at the sale for my efforts. 🙂 Wahoo.

10. Read 1 book a week.

This week I’m reading The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times I’ve read it once before but

11. Slow Down.

Am I the only one who always seem to have 5 crafts projects going on at once?

12. Canning

Yesterday The Girl and I canned peach jam. Life is good.

Did you set any goals for this year? If so, how are they coming along?

~Mavis