1. My savings account will increase by $20,000. I don't know how do-able this really is, but I am using Sluggy as my motivator. She shot for 60K last year and landed in the 20's, which I think is great work. Now last year I moaned and ranted and bitched about how every time I save $250 for example, I then get a bill for $250, so I am REALLY hoping this is not going to be the case with my $20,000 goal. Please wish me luck and cross something for me.
2. Continue on my Compact goals of lightening my footprint on the Mother Earth. I am going to step up all of my activities to another level and see how that goes. You know the drill, less packaging in the house, less things in the garbage, more in the compost, more things gone to Goodwill, less things brought in to the house in the first place.
3. Get started WAAAAAAYY earlier on Christmas and birthday gifts. I did not allow near enough time this year and Harry and David came to the rescue for several gifts. Not good planning on my part. I think lots of gifts this year will be through Heifer and Kiva. But the homemade gifts will be started on in April, I think.
4. Start walking and find a way to get in much better health and better shape this year. 2 of my high school friends dropped dead this year unexpectedly and I am not only deeply saddened by this, but shocked that 50 year old people who should be in their prime are not. I would really like to be around for a little longer. I have more to accomplish, more to see, and I am not even remotely ready to kick said bucket.
5. Toward the end of better health, I will be doing more of my meal planning and shopping through Greenling our local online green grocer and at the farmers markets. Keeping it local and organic can only be good for all of us.
6. Remove 1 full shelf of cookbooks from my collection. There are plenty of them that I have never used. There are plenty more that I only have made 1 single item from. These books need to be set free.
I think that's where I will leave this. Six is plenty. Six is also a nice even number and it is half a dozen. Six is good.
As always, feel free to post some of your goals and comment on mine. I always learn something!
Now I KNOW you can get to the $20K mark for savings this year! That's only $1666.67 a month. Just look at it that way and eat that elephant one month at a time.
ReplyDeleteI know it's hard when emergencies seem to appear every time you get a little pile of money saved, but try to keep positive energy about the whole thing and you'll see that though emergencies arise, they won't take ALL the money you save. ;-))
My resolution list is going to be posted tomorrow (I hope)!
ReplyDeleteI think your resolutions sound great! One thing I had vowed to do in 2009 was to post a monthly update on my resolution progress to keep myself accountable. I didn't do it, but still think it's a good idea ;)