2018 Goals

[mommy2mrb]

Got to go see our new house on Saturday!!! Totally LOVE IT! even with just the framing up to define the rooms it felt like home. Siding going up, windows in, rough in for electric and plumbing done. They will move on to the inside next week!

Heading out to visit DD college this morning. Get to meet up with dean of nursing, financial aid and admissions, tour and maybe get to meet some professors too buying her swag too!

 

[comicguy]

Week 14 update: Another busy and semi-unproductive week

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273

Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000


Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000


Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800



Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 4/6 by bring lunch to work everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 250 dollars

Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer Now having to start buying some grocery staples again as we have done a great job of using a lot up!
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away



Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)

Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished

Somehow I forgot to copy the house goals in to this for accountability

Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled

• Clean/organize
• Estimate
  • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
• Start Date
• Project Finished

Fix items around the house

• Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
• Seal Laundry Room window casing
• Seal Cellar Door
• Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
• Re-Build Flower Beds
• Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
• Install shelving in tool shed
• Organize Tool Shed
• Scrape Tool Shed
• Paint Tool Shed
• Fix Outside Phone Line
• Fix leaking gutter
• Add leaf catchers to gutters
• Insulate cellar staircase
• Re-Insulate cellar
• Lay new subfloor in Justin's’ room
• Prime and Paint Justin’s room
• Replace cellar stairs
• Fill/seal Driveway cracks
• Fill curbing cracks/holes

 

[comicguy]

Week 15 update: Another busy and semi-unproductive week

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273

Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
1/31 66,879


Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000


Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850



Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 4/6 by bring lunch to work everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 250 dollars

Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer Now having to start buying some grocery staples again as we have done a great job of using a lot up!
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away



Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)

Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished

Somehow I forgot to copy the house goals in to this for accountability

Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled

• Clean/organize
• Estimate
  • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
  • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
• Start Date
• Project Finished

Fix items around the house

• Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
• Seal Laundry Room window casing
• Seal Cellar Door
• Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
• Re-Build Flower Beds
• Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
• Install shelving in tool shed
• Organize Tool Shed
• Scrape Tool Shed
• Paint Tool Shed
• Fix Outside Phone Line
• Fix leaking gutter
• Add leaf catchers to gutters
• Insulate cellar staircase
• Re-Insulate cellar
• Lay new subfloor in Justin's’ room
• Prime and Paint Justin’s room
• Replace cellar stairs
• Fill/seal Driveway cracks
• Fill curbing cracks/holes

 

[comicguy]

Week 16 update: Another busy and very unproductive week meeting most days after work to finalize plans for weekend competition

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273

Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879


Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682


Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950



Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 4/6 by bring lunch to work everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 250 dollars

Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer Now having to start buying some grocery staples again as we have done a great job of using a lot up!
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away



Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)

Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished

Somehow I forgot to copy the house goals in to this for accountability

Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled

• Clean/organize
• Estimate
  • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
  • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
• Start Date
• Project Finished

Fix items around the house

• Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
• Seal Laundry Room window casing
• Seal Cellar Door
• Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
• Re-Build Flower Beds
• Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
• Install shelving in tool shed
• Organize Tool Shed
• Scrape Tool Shed
• Paint Tool Shed
• Fix Outside Phone Line
• Fix leaking gutter
• Add leaf catchers to gutters
• Insulate cellar staircase
• Re-Insulate cellar
• Lay new subfloor in Justin's’ room
• Prime and Paint Justin’s room
• Replace cellar stairs
• Fill/seal Driveway cracks
• Fill curbing cracks/holes

 

[imbatman]

Financial:

1. Pay off CC1 All done! Last payment was in March.
2. Pay off upcoming WDW trip before going in December. $7068.68 in Jan. Chipping away at that! Have made "payments" to my brother for the expenses.
3. Follow through with tracking expenditures and planning ahead, since I suck at budgets (yes, I've tried YNAB) Every week, come rain or shine, I lug out that spreadsheet and work on it.
4. Pay down CC2 to $8000 by December. Made the first double payment this month. Currently on track to keep this.

Personal:

1. Finish writing projects - End of April for current project It's going slower than I'd like, but I think I'll make it!
2. Exercise - Start walking. Does gardening and yard work count? I have been trying to make sure I have a defensible fire space and planted a new veggie garden.
3. Research new writing project with dad (who is succumbing to cancer, so this is important to me) On hold due to things beyond our control. Maybe will start in May.

Around the house (aka, zero dollars):

1. Declutter office About halfway there.
2. Organize garage Just the workbench so far.
3. Declutter my bedroom Working on small sections. Two already completed.
4. Keep living room and kitchen picked up daily If I didn't have kids, this might be easier. But it's better than it was!

 

[comicguy]

Week 17 update: Another busy and very unproductive week meetings most days after work

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498

Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879


Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682



Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)

4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000



Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 4/6 by bring lunch to work everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 250 dollars

Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer Now having to start buying some grocery staples again as we have done a great job of using a lot up!
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work



Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)


Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished

Somehow I forgot to copy the house goals in to this for accountability

Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled

• Clean/organize
• Estimate
  • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
  • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
  • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls
• Start Date
• Project Finished

Fix items around the house

• Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
• Seal Laundry Room window casing
• Seal Cellar Door
• Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
• Re-Build Flower Beds
• Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
• Install shelving in tool shed
• Organize Tool Shed
• Scrape Tool Shed
• Paint Tool Shed
• Fix Outside Phone Line
• Fix leaking gutter
• Add leaf catchers to gutters
• Insulate cellar staircase
• Re-Insulate cellar
• Lay new subfloor in Justin's’ room
• Prime and Paint Justin’s room
• Replace cellar stairs
• Fill/seal Driveway cracks
• Fill curbing cracks/holes

 

[comicguy]

Week 18 update: Another busy but it looks like things might actually start to slow down a bit!!
Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498

Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879


Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682



Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)

4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100



Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 4/6 by bring lunch to work everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 250 dollars

Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer Now having to start buying some grocery staples again as we have done a great job of using a lot up!
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work



Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)


Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished

Somehow I forgot to copy the house goals in to this for accountability

Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled

• Clean/organize
• Estimate
  • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
  • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
  • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls
• Start Date
• Project Finished

Fix items around the house

• Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
• Seal Laundry Room window casing
• Seal Cellar Door
• Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
• Re-Build Flower Beds
• Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
• Install shelving in tool shed
• Organize Tool Shed
• Scrape Tool Shed
• Paint Tool Shed
• Fix Outside Phone Line
• Fix leaking gutter
• Add leaf catchers to gutters
• Insulate cellar staircase
• Re-Insulate cellar
• Lay new subfloor in Justin's’ room
• Prime and Paint Justin’s room
• Replace cellar stairs
• Fill/seal Driveway cracks
• Fill curbing cracks/holes

 

[comicguy]

Week 19 update:

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498

Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879


Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682



Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)

4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/6-5/10 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
5/6 - 5/10 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (forgot lunch on counter )

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100
5/12 50/ 1150



Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 4/6 by bring lunch to work everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 250 dollars

Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer Now having to start buying some grocery staples again as we have done a great job of using a lot up!
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work



Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)
5/6 - 5/12 5 items decluttered (495)


Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished
5/9 Book 14 finished

Somehow I forgot to copy the house goals in to this for accountability

Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled

• Clean/organize
• Estimate
  • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
  • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
  • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls
  • Contractor #3 contacted but has not returned my phone call ?????
• Start Date
• Project Finished

Fix items around the house

• Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
• Seal Laundry Room window casing
• Seal Cellar Door
• Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
• Re-Build Flower Beds
• Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
• Install shelving in tool shed
• Organize Tool Shed
• Scrape Tool Shed
• Paint Tool Shed
• Fix Outside Phone Line
• Fix leaking gutter
• Add leaf catchers to gutters
• Insulate cellar staircase
• Re-Insulate cellar
• Lay new subfloor in Justin's’ room
• Prime and Paint Justin’s room
• Replace cellar stairs
• Fill/seal Driveway cracks
• Fill curbing cracks/holes

 

[OhMari]

Love your list.

I managed to work down in my basement on weekends to get ready for our Rummage Sale this June.
36 years worth of items thrown into totes. If I got tired of items around the house, I would gather items up, go buy a tote and I stored it all in totes. So I had to organize and re organize. My dh helped me label the totes.

We put our own back splash on behind our stove/hood area. Our contractor wanted to charge us $7000 when we built the house. We said no and we would do it ourselves. It took 3 years and we finally did it. The tile which looks like a stone ledge was being discontinued at Menards was $80. It took us one Saturday and we did it. We sealed it, layed it up on the wall and now we just need to caulk around the edges, for another $20.

I did read 4 books this winter, but I noticed I wanted to just read and not go to the YMCA for class.
So I am putting books aside to later this summer again.

 

[comicguy]

Week 20 update:

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498

Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879


Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682



Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)

4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/6-5/10 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
5/14 - 5/18 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
5/6 - 5/10 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (forgot lunch on counter )
5/14 - 5/18 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (Drs. appointment 1 day)

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100
5/12 50/ 1150
5/17 50/1200



Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 4/6 by bring lunch to work everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 250 dollars

Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer Now having to start buying some grocery staples again as we have done a great job of using a lot up!
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work



Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)
5/6 - 5/12 5 items decluttered (495)
5/13 - 5/19 29 items decluttered (524)


Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished
5/9 Book 14 finished
5/18 Book 15 finished

Somehow I forgot to copy the house goals in to this for accountability

Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled

• Clean/organize
• Estimate
  • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
  • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
  • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls
  • Contractor #3 contacted but has not returned my phone call ?????
  • Contractor #3 called back and set up an appointment for Tuesday evening
• Start Date
• Project Finished

Fix items around the house

• Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
• Seal Laundry Room window casing
• Seal Cellar Door
• Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
• Re-Build Flower Beds
• Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
• Install shelving in tool shed
• Organize Tool Shed
• Scrape Tool Shed
• Paint Tool Shed
• Fix Outside Phone Line (Done 5/18)
• Fix leaking gutter
• Add leaf catchers to gutters
• Insulate cellar staircase
• Re-Insulate cellar
• Lay new subfloor in Justin's’ room
• Prime and Paint Justin’s room
• Replace cellar stairs
• Fill/seal Driveway cracks
• Fill curbing cracks/holes

 

[EpiStitch]

I love that you've kept up with tracking everything so far! As for the contractors, in my experience, it's really hard to get them to respond and show up. The last one I hired was very responsive at first and the subcontractor worked 6 days a week to get my project done, but then fell off the face of the earth when I wanted an overhead light added (as we had discussed, but wasn't in the initial bid). I hope you find someone awesome.

 

[comicguy]

Week 21 update:

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498

Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879


Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682



Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)

4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/6-5/10 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
5/14 - 5/18 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/21- 5/25 2 breakfast and 1 diner out

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
5/6 - 5/10 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (forgot lunch on counter )
5/14 - 5/18 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (Drs. appointment 1 day)
5/21 - 5/25 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100
5/12 50/ 1150
5/17 50/1200
5/25 100/1300 (50 was from a lawnmower that I sold)



Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 4/6 by bring lunch to work everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 250 dollars

Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer Now having to start buying some grocery staples again as we have done a great job of using a lot up!
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work



Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)
5/6 - 5/12 5 items decluttered (495)
5/13 - 5/19 29 items decluttered (524)
5/20 - 5/25 11 items decluttered (535)


Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished
5/9 Book 14 finished
5/18 Book 15 finished
5/19 Book 16 finished
5/20 Book 17 finished
5/21 Book 18 finished
5/21 Book 19 finished
5/21 Book 20 finished

Somehow I forgot to copy the house goals in to this for accountability

Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled

• Clean/organize
• Estimate
  • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
  • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
  • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls
  • Contractor #3 contacted but has not returned my phone call ?????
  • Contractor #3 called back and set up an appointment for Tuesday evening
  • Contractor #3 showed up and walked through the project, asked lots of questions, said he would have quote this Tuesday
• Start Date
• Project Finished

Fix items around the house

• Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
• Seal Laundry Room window casing
• Seal Cellar Door
• Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
• Re-Build Flower Beds
• Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
• Install shelving in tool shed
• Organize Tool Shed
• Scrape Tool Shed
• Paint Tool Shed
• Fix Outside Phone Line (Done 5/18)
• Fix leaking gutter
• Add leaf catchers to gutters
• Insulate cellar staircase
• Re-Insulate cellar
• Lay new subfloor in Justin's’ room
• Prime and Paint Justin’s room
• Replace cellar stairs
• Fill/seal Driveway cracks
• Fill curbing cracks/holes

 

[comicguy]

Week 22 update:

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498
6/1 3709

Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879

Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682

Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)

4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/6-5/10 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
5/14 - 5/18 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/21- 5/25 2 breakfast and 1 din2er out
5/27 - 6/2 2 breakfast out and 2 dinner out

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
5/6 - 5/10 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (forgot lunch on counter )
5/14 - 5/18 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (Drs. appointment 1 day)
5/21 - 5/25 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
5/28 - 6/1 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100
5/12 50/ 1150
5/17 50/1200
5/25 100/1300 (50 was from a lawnmower that I sold)
6/2 50/1350


Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 4/6 by bring lunch to work everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 250 dollars

Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work


Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)
5/6 - 5/12 5 items decluttered (495)
5/13 - 5/19 29 items decluttered (524)
5/20 - 5/25 11 items decluttered (535)
5/25 -6/1 167 items decluttered (702)


Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished
5/9 Book 14 finished
5/18 Book 15 finished
5/19 Book 16 finished
5/20 Book 17 finished
5/21 Book 18 finished
5/21 Book 19 finished
5/21 Book 20 finished

5/27 Book 21 finished
5/27 Book 22 finished
5/28 Book 23 finished
5/28 Book 24 finished
5/28 Book 25 finished
5/30 Book 26 finished
5/31 Book 27 finished
6/1 Book 28 finished
6/1 Book 29 finished
6/2 Book 30 finished
6/2 Book 31 finished
6/3 Book 32 finished (a bunch of these were TPB's that have been sitting on shelf for a long time. Read and then sell!!)


Somehow I forgot to copy the house goals in to this for accountability

Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled

• Clean/organize
• Estimate
  • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
  • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
  • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls
  • Contractor #3 contacted but has not returned my phone call ?????
  • Contractor #3 called back and set up an appointment for Tuesday evening
  • Contractor #3 showed up and walked through the project, asked lots of questions, said he would have quote this Tuesday
  • Still waiting on quote from contractor 3
• Start Date
• Project Finished

Fix items around the house

• Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
• Seal Laundry Room window casing
• Seal Cellar Door
• Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
• Re-Build Flower Beds
• Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
• Install shelving in tool shed
• Organize Tool Shed
• Scrape Tool Shed
• Paint Tool Shed
• Fix Outside Phone Line (Done 5/18)
• Fix leaking gutter
• Add leaf catchers to gutters
• Insulate cellar staircase
• Re-Insulate cellar
• Lay new subfloor in Justin's’ room
• Prime and Paint Justin’s room
• Replace cellar stairs
• Fill/seal Driveway cracks
• Fill curbing cracks/holes

 

[comicguy]

Week 23 update:

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498
6/1 3709

Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879

Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682

Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)

4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/6-5/10 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
5/14 - 5/18 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/21- 5/25 2 breakfast and 1 din2er out
5/27 - 6/2 2 breakfast out and 2 dinner out
6/3 -6/9 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
5/6 - 5/10 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (forgot lunch on counter )
5/14 - 5/18 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (Drs. appointment 1 day)
5/21 - 5/25 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
5/28 - 6/1 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
6/3 - 6/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100
5/12 50/ 1150
5/17 50/1200
5/25 100/1300 (50 was from a lawnmower that I sold)
6/2 50/1350
6/9 50/1400


Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 4/6 by bring lunch to work everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 250 dollars

Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work


Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)
5/6 - 5/12 5 items decluttered (495)
5/13 - 5/19 29 items decluttered (524)
5/20 - 5/25 11 items decluttered (535)
5/25 -6/1 167 items decluttered (702)
6/2 - 6/9 9 items decluttered (711)


Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished
5/9 Book 14 finished
5/18 Book 15 finished
5/19 Book 16 finished
5/20 Book 17 finished
5/21 Book 18 finished
5/21 Book 19 finished
5/21 Book 20 finished

5/27 Book 21 finished
5/27 Book 22 finished
5/28 Book 23 finished
5/28 Book 24 finished
5/28 Book 25 finished
5/30 Book 26 finished
5/31 Book 27 finished
6/1 Book 28 finished
6/1 Book 29 finished
6/2 Book 30 finished
6/2 Book 31 finished
6/3 Book 32 finished (a bunch of these were TPB's that have been sitting on shelf for a long time. Read and then sell!!)


Somehow I forgot to copy the house goals in to this for accountability

Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled

• Clean/organize
• Estimate
  • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
  • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
  • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls
  • Contractor #3 contacted but has not returned my phone call ?????
  • Contractor #3 called back and set up an appointment for Tuesday evening
  • Contractor #3 showed up and walked through the project, asked lots of questions, said he would have quote this Tuesday
  • Still waiting on quote from contractor 3
  • Contractor #3 got me the quote about 3000 over budget, guess we will do most work ourselves and contract out certain parts to save some money
• Start Date
• Project Finished

Fix items around the house

• Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
• Seal Laundry Room window casing
• Seal Cellar Door
• Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
• Re-Build Flower Beds
• Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
• Install shelving in tool shed
• Organize Tool Shed
• Scrape Tool Shed
• Paint Tool Shed
• Fix Outside Phone Line (Done 5/18)
• Fix leaking gutter
• Add leaf catchers to gutters
• Insulate cellar staircase
• Re-Insulate cellar
• Lay new subfloor in Justin's’ room
• Prime and Paint Justin’s room
• Replace cellar stairs
• Fill/seal Driveway cracks
• Fill curbing cracks/holes

 

[comicguy]

Week 24 update:

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498
6/1 3709

Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879

Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682

Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)

4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/6-5/10 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
5/14 - 5/18 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/21- 5/25 2 breakfast and 1 din2er out
5/27 - 6/2 2 breakfast out and 2 dinner out
6/3 -6/9 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
6/10 - 6/16 3 breakfast out and 2 dinners out (1 breakfast and 1 dinner as went to a concert out of the area)

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
5/6 - 5/10 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (forgot lunch on counter )
5/14 - 5/18 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (Drs. appointment 1 day)
5/21 - 5/25 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
5/28 - 6/1 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
6/3 - 6/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days
6/10 -6/15 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100
5/12 50/ 1150
5/17 50/1200
5/25 100/1300 (50 was from a lawnmower that I sold)
6/2 50/1350
6/9 50/1400
6/16 150/1550 (extra 100 from a stipend at school)


Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 4/6 by bring lunch to work everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 250 dollars

Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work


Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)
5/6 - 5/12 5 items decluttered (495)
5/13 - 5/19 29 items decluttered (524)
5/20 - 5/25 11 items decluttered (535)
5/25 -6/1 167 items decluttered (702)
6/2 - 6/9 9 items decluttered (711)
6/10 - 6/16 43 items decluttered (754)


Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished
5/9 Book 14 finished
5/18 Book 15 finished
5/19 Book 16 finished
5/20 Book 17 finished
5/21 Book 18 finished
5/21 Book 19 finished
5/21 Book 20 finished

5/27 Book 21 finished
5/27 Book 22 finished
5/28 Book 23 finished
5/28 Book 24 finished
5/28 Book 25 finished
5/30 Book 26 finished
5/31 Book 27 finished
6/1 Book 28 finished
6/1 Book 29 finished
6/2 Book 30 finished
6/2 Book 31 finished
6/3 Book 32 finished (a bunch of these were TPB's that have been sitting on shelf for a long time. Read and then sell!!)


Somehow I forgot to copy the house goals in to this for accountability

Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled

• Clean/organize
• Estimate
  • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
  • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
  • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls
  • Contractor #3 contacted but has not returned my phone call ?????
  • Contractor #3 called back and set up an appointment for Tuesday evening
  • Contractor #3 showed up and walked through the project, asked lots of questions, said he would have quote this Tuesday
  • Still waiting on quote from contractor 3
  • Contractor #3 got me the quote about 3000 over budget, guess we will do most work ourselves and contract out certain parts to save some money
• Start Date
• Project Finished

Fix items around the house

• Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
• Seal Laundry Room window casing
• Seal Cellar Door
• Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
• Re-Build Flower Beds
• Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
• Install shelving in tool shed
• Organize Tool Shed
• Scrape Tool Shed
• Paint Tool Shed
• Fix Outside Phone Line (Done 5/18)
• Fix leaking gutter
• Add leaf catchers to gutters
• Insulate cellar staircase
• Re-Insulate cellar
• Lay new subfloor in Justin's’ room
• Prime and Paint Justin’s room
• Replace cellar stairs
• Fill/seal Driveway cracks
• Fill curbing cracks/holes

 

[comicguy]

Week 25 update:

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498
6/1 3709

Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879

Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682

Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)

4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/6-5/10 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
5/14 - 5/18 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/21- 5/25 2 breakfast and 1 din2er out
5/27 - 6/2 2 breakfast out and 2 dinner out
6/3 -6/9 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
6/10 - 6/16 3 breakfast out and 2 dinners out (1 breakfast and 1 dinner as went to a concert out of the area)
6/17 - 6/23 3 breakfast and 2 dinners out

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
5/6 - 5/10 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (forgot lunch on counter )
5/14 - 5/18 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (Drs. appointment 1 day)
5/21 - 5/25 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
5/28 - 6/1 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
6/3 - 6/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days
6/10 -6/15 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
6/18 - 6/22 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 2 days (had a group lunch out)

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100
5/12 50/ 1150
5/17 50/1200
5/25 100/1300 (50 was from a lawnmower that I sold)
6/2 50/1350
6/9 50/1400
6/16 150/1550 (extra 100 from a stipend at school)
6/23 50/1600


Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 4/6 by bring lunch to work everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 250 dollars

Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work


Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)
5/6 - 5/12 5 items decluttered (495)
5/13 - 5/19 29 items decluttered (524)
5/20 - 5/25 11 items decluttered (535)
5/25 -6/1 167 items decluttered (702)
6/2 - 6/9 9 items decluttered (711)
6/10 - 6/16 43 items decluttered (754)
6/17 - 6/23 123 items declutter (877)


Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished
5/9 Book 14 finished
5/18 Book 15 finished
5/19 Book 16 finished
5/20 Book 17 finished
5/21 Book 18 finished
5/21 Book 19 finished
5/21 Book 20 finished

5/27 Book 21 finished
5/27 Book 22 finished
5/28 Book 23 finished
5/28 Book 24 finished
5/28 Book 25 finished
5/30 Book 26 finished
5/31 Book 27 finished
6/1 Book 28 finished
6/1 Book 29 finished
6/2 Book 30 finished
6/2 Book 31 finished
6/3 Book 32 finished (a bunch of these were TPB's that have been sitting on shelf for a long time. Read and then sell!!)
6/21 Book 33 finished

Somehow I forgot to copy the house goals in to this for accountability

Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled

• Clean/organize
• Estimate
  • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
  • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
  • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls
  • Contractor #3 contacted but has not returned my phone call ?????
  • Contractor #3 called back and set up an appointment for Tuesday evening
  • Contractor #3 showed up and walked through the project, asked lots of questions, said he would have quote this Tuesday
  • Still waiting on quote from contractor 3
  • Contractor #3 got me the quote about 3000 over budget, guess we will do most work ourselves and contract out certain parts to save some money
• Start Date
• Project Finished

Fix items around the house

• Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
• Seal Laundry Room window casing
• Seal Cellar Door
• Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
• Re-Build Flower Beds
• Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
• Install shelving in tool shed (Done 6/22)
• Organize Tool Shed (Done 6/22)
• Scrape Tool Shed
• Paint Tool Shed
• Fix Outside Phone Line (Done 5/18)
• Fix leaking gutter
• Add leaf catchers to gutters
• Insulate cellar staircase
• Re-Insulate cellar
• Lay new subfloor in Justin's’ room
• Prime and Paint Justin’s room
• Replace cellar stairs
• Fill/seal Driveway cracks
• Fill curbing cracks/holes

 

[comicguy]

Week 26 update: Now officially 6 months into tracking my 2018 goals

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498
6/1 3709
6/30 4001

Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879

Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682

Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)

4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/6-5/10 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
5/14 - 5/18 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/21- 5/25 2 breakfast and 1 din2er out
5/27 - 6/2 2 breakfast out and 2 dinner out
6/3 -6/9 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
6/10 - 6/16 3 breakfast out and 2 dinners out (1 breakfast and 1 dinner as went to a concert out of the area)
6/17 - 6/23 3 breakfast and 2 dinners out
6/24 - 6/30 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
5/6 - 5/10 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (forgot lunch on counter )
5/14 - 5/18 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (Drs. appointment 1 day)
5/21 - 5/25 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
5/28 - 6/1 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
6/3 - 6/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days
6/10 -6/15 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
6/18 - 6/22 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 2 days (had a group lunch out)
School is out for summer!!

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100
5/12 50/ 1150
5/17 50/1200
5/25 100/1300 (50 was from a lawnmower that I sold)
6/2 50/1350
6/9 50/1400
6/16 150/1550 (extra 100 from a stipend at school)
6/23 50/1600
6/30 100/1700 (extra 50 from items I sold via Facebook)


Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 6/30 (101 days) brought lunch to work almost everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 101 days * $5= 505 dollars !!

Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work


Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)
5/6 - 5/12 5 items decluttered (495)
5/13 - 5/19 29 items decluttered (524)
5/20 - 5/25 11 items decluttered (535)
5/25 -6/1 167 items decluttered (702)
6/2 - 6/9 9 items decluttered (711)
6/10 - 6/16 43 items decluttered (754)
6/17 - 6/23 123 items declutter (877)
6/24 - 6/30 56 items decluttered (928)


Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished
5/9 Book 14 finished
5/18 Book 15 finished
5/19 Book 16 finished
5/20 Book 17 finished
5/21 Book 18 finished
5/21 Book 19 finished
5/21 Book 20 finished

5/27 Book 21 finished
5/27 Book 22 finished
5/28 Book 23 finished
5/28 Book 24 finished
5/28 Book 25 finished
5/30 Book 26 finished
5/31 Book 27 finished
6/1 Book 28 finished
6/1 Book 29 finished
6/2 Book 30 finished
6/2 Book 31 finished
6/3 Book 32 finished (a bunch of these were TPB's that have been sitting on shelf for a long time. Read and then sell!!)
6/21 Book 33 finished

Somehow I forgot to copy the house goals in to this for accountability

Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled

• Clean/organize
• Estimate
  • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
  • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
  • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls
  • Contractor #3 contacted but has not returned my phone call ?????
  • Contractor #3 called back and set up an appointment for Tuesday evening
  • Contractor #3 showed up and walked through the project, asked lots of questions, said he would have quote this Tuesday
  • Still waiting on quote from contractor 3
  • Contractor #3 got me the quote about 3000 over budget, guess we will do most work ourselves and contract out certain parts to save some money
• Start Date
• Project Finished

Fix items around the house

• Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
• Seal Laundry Room window casing
• Seal Cellar Door
• Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
• Re-Build Flower Beds
• Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
• Install shelving in tool shed (Done 6/22)
• Organize Tool Shed (Done 6/22)
• Scrape Tool Shed
• Paint Tool Shed
• Fix Outside Phone Line (Done 5/18)
• Fix leaking gutter
• Add leaf catchers to gutters
• Insulate cellar staircase
• Re-Insulate cellar
• Lay new subfloor in Justin's’ room
• Prime and Paint Justin’s room
• Replace cellar stairs
• Fill/seal Driveway cracks
• Fill curbing cracks/holes

 

[comicguy]

Week 27 update:

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498
6/1 3709
6/30 4001

Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879

Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682

Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)

4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/6-5/10 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
5/14 - 5/18 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/21- 5/25 2 breakfast and 1 diner out
5/27 - 6/2 2 breakfast out and 2 dinner out
6/3 -6/9 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
6/10 - 6/16 3 breakfast out and 2 dinners out (1 breakfast and 1 dinner as went to a concert out of the area)
6/17 - 6/23 3 breakfast and 2 dinners out
6/24 - 6/30 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
7/1 - 7/7 1 breakfast, 1 lunch, and 1 dinner out (lunch and dinner out, an out of town friend in town)

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
5/6 - 5/10 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (forgot lunch on counter )
5/14 - 5/18 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (Drs. appointment 1 day)
5/21 - 5/25 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
5/28 - 6/1 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
6/3 - 6/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days
6/10 -6/15 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
6/18 - 6/22 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 2 days (had a group lunch out)
School is out for summer!!

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100
5/12 50/ 1150
5/17 50/1200
5/25 100/1300 (50 was from a lawnmower that I sold)
6/2 50/1350
6/9 50/1400
6/16 150/1550 (extra 100 from a stipend at school)
6/23 50/1600
6/30 100/1700 (extra 50 from items I sold via Facebook)
7/7 50/1750


Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 6/30 (101 days) brought lunch to work almost everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 101 days * $5= 505 dollars !!

Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work
7/5 1 partial notepad used up

Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)
5/6 - 5/12 5 items decluttered (495)
5/13 - 5/19 29 items decluttered (524)
5/20 - 5/25 11 items decluttered (535)
5/25 -6/1 167 items decluttered (702)
6/2 - 6/9 9 items decluttered (711)
6/10 - 6/16 43 items decluttered (754)
6/17 - 6/23 123 items declutter (877)
6/24 - 6/30 56 items decluttered (928)
7/1 - 7/7 367 items decluttered (1295)


Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished
5/9 Book 14 finished
5/18 Book 15 finished
5/19 Book 16 finished
5/20 Book 17 finished
5/21 Book 18 finished
5/21 Book 19 finished
5/21 Book 20 finished

5/27 Book 21 finished
5/27 Book 22 finished
5/28 Book 23 finished
5/28 Book 24 finished
5/28 Book 25 finished
5/30 Book 26 finished
5/31 Book 27 finished
6/1 Book 28 finished
6/1 Book 29 finished
6/2 Book 30 finished
6/2 Book 31 finished
6/3 Book 32 finished (a bunch of these were TPB's that have been sitting on shelf for a long time. Read and then sell!!)
6/21 Book 33 finished

Somehow I forgot to copy the house goals in to this for accountability

Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled

• Clean/organize
• Estimate
  • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
  • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
  • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls
  • Contractor #3 contacted but has not returned my phone call ?????
  • Contractor #3 called back and set up an appointment for Tuesday evening
  • Contractor #3 showed up and walked through the project, asked lots of questions, said he would have quote this Tuesday
  • Still waiting on quote from contractor 3
  • Contractor #3 got me the quote about 3000 over budget, guess we will do most work ourselves and contract out certain parts to save some money
• Start Date
• Project Finished

Fix items around the house

• Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
• Seal Laundry Room window casing
• Seal Cellar Door
• Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
• Re-Build Flower Beds (Done 7/6)
• Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
• Install shelving in tool shed (Done 6/22)
• Organize Tool Shed (Done 6/22)
• Scrape Tool Shed
• Paint Tool Shed
• Fix Outside Phone Line (Done 5/18)
• Fix leaking gutter
• Add leaf catchers to gutters
• Insulate cellar staircase
• Re-Insulate cellar
• Lay new subfloor in Justin's’ room
• Prime and Paint Justin’s room
• Replace cellar stairs
• Fill/seal Driveway cracks
• Fill curbing cracks/holes

 

[comicguy]

Week 28 update:

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498
6/1 3709
6/30 4001

Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879
6/30 72,844

Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682
6/30 waiting for statement

Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)
4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/6-5/10 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
5/14 - 5/18 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/21- 5/25 2 breakfast and 1 diner out
5/27 - 6/2 2 breakfast out and 2 dinner out
6/3 -6/9 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
6/10 - 6/16 3 breakfast out and 2 dinners out (1 breakfast and 1 dinner as went to a concert out of the area)
6/17 - 6/23 3 breakfast and 2 dinners out
6/24 - 6/30 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
7/1 - 7/7 1 breakfast, 1 lunch, and 1 dinner out (lunch and dinner out, an out of town friend in town)
7/8 - 7/14 2 breakfast out

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
5/6 - 5/10 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (forgot lunch on counter )
5/14 - 5/18 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (Drs. appointment 1 day)
5/21 - 5/25 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
5/28 - 6/1 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
6/3 - 6/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days
6/10 -6/15 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
6/18 - 6/22 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 2 days (had a group lunch out)
School is out for summer!!

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100
5/12 50/ 1150
5/17 50/1200
5/25 100/1300 (50 was from a lawnmower that I sold)
6/2 50/1350
6/9 50/1400
6/16 150/1550 (extra 100 from a stipend at school)
6/23 50/1600
6/30 100/1700 (extra 50 from items I sold via Facebook)
7/7 50/1750
7/14 200/1950 (150 was from rolling up all the loose change in the house)


Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 6/30 (101 days) brought lunch to work almost everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 101 days * $5= 505 dollars !!
7/13 Dropped garbage cost from 33.17 to 24.95/month saving 8.22/month (98.64 savings/year)


Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work
7/5 1 partial notepad used up

Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)
5/6 - 5/12 5 items decluttered (495)
5/13 - 5/19 29 items decluttered (524)
5/20 - 5/25 11 items decluttered (535)
5/25 -6/1 167 items decluttered (702)
6/2 - 6/9 9 items decluttered (711)
6/10 - 6/16 43 items decluttered (754)
6/17 - 6/23 123 items declutter (877)
6/24 - 6/30 56 items decluttered (928)
7/1 - 7/7 367 items decluttered (1295)
7/8 - 7/14 46 items decluttered (1341)


Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished
5/9 Book 14 finished
5/18 Book 15 finished
5/19 Book 16 finished
5/20 Book 17 finished
5/21 Book 18 finished
5/21 Book 19 finished
5/21 Book 20 finished

5/27 Book 21 finished
5/27 Book 22 finished
5/28 Book 23 finished
5/28 Book 24 finished
5/28 Book 25 finished
5/30 Book 26 finished
5/31 Book 27 finished
6/1 Book 28 finished
6/1 Book 29 finished
6/2 Book 30 finished
6/2 Book 31 finished
6/3 Book 32 finished (a bunch of these were TPB's that have been sitting on shelf for a long time. Read and then sell!!)
6/21 Book 33 finished
7/10 Book 34 finished


Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled

• Clean/organize
• Estimate
  • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
  • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
  • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls
  • Contractor #3 contacted but has not returned my phone call ?????
  • Contractor #3 called back and set up an appointment for Tuesday evening
  • Contractor #3 showed up and walked through the project, asked lots of questions, said he would have quote this Tuesday
  • Still waiting on quote from contractor 3
  • Contractor #3 got me the quote about 3000 over budget, guess we will do most work ourselves and contract out certain parts to save some money
• Start Date
• Project Finished

Fix items around the house

• Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
• Seal Laundry Room window casing
• Seal Cellar Door
• Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
• Re-Build Flower Beds (Done 7/6)
• Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
• Install shelving in tool shed (Done 6/22)
• Organize Tool Shed (Done 6/22)
• Scrape Tool Shed (Done 7/9)
• Prime Tool Shed (Done 7/10)
• Paint Tool Shed (Done 7/11)
• Fix Outside Phone Line (Done 5/18)
• Fix leaking gutter
• Add leaf catchers to gutters
• Insulate cellar staircase
• Re-Insulate cellar
• Lay new subfloor in Justin's’ room
• Prime Justin’s room (Done 7/10)
• Paint Justin's room (Done 7/11)
• Replace cellar stairs
• Fill/seal Driveway cracks
• Fill curbing cracks/holes

 

[comicguy]

Week 29 update: Not a lot happened this week as I was out of town for a conference most of the week

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498
6/1 3709
6/30 4001

Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879
6/30 72,844

Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682
6/30 waiting for statement

Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)
4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/6-5/10 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
5/14 - 5/18 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/21- 5/25 2 breakfast and 1 diner out
5/27 - 6/2 2 breakfast out and 2 dinner out
6/3 -6/9 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
6/10 - 6/16 3 breakfast out and 2 dinners out (1 breakfast and 1 dinner as went to a concert out of the area)
6/17 - 6/23 3 breakfast and 2 dinners out
6/24 - 6/30 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
7/1 - 7/7 1 breakfast, 1 lunch, and 1 dinner out (lunch and dinner out, an out of town friend in town)
7/8 - 7/14 2 breakfast out
7/15 - 7/21 1 lunch out

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
5/6 - 5/10 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (forgot lunch on counter )
5/14 - 5/18 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (Drs. appointment 1 day)
5/21 - 5/25 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
5/28 - 6/1 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
6/3 - 6/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days
6/10 -6/15 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
6/18 - 6/22 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 2 days (had a group lunch out)
School is out for summer!!

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100
5/12 50/ 1150
5/17 50/1200
5/25 100/1300 (50 was from a lawnmower that I sold)
6/2 50/1350
6/9 50/1400
6/16 150/1550 (extra 100 from a stipend at school)
6/23 50/1600
6/30 100/1700 (extra 50 from items I sold via Facebook)
7/7 50/1750
7/14 200/1950 (150 was from rolling up all the loose change in the house)
7/21 50/2000


Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 6/30 (101 days) brought lunch to work almost everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 101 days * $5= 505 dollars !!
7/13 Dropped garbage cost from 33.17 to 24.95/month saving 8.22/month (98.64 savings/year)


Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work
7/5 1 partial notepad used up
7/21 1 partial notepad - used up

Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)
5/6 - 5/12 5 items decluttered (495)
5/13 - 5/19 29 items decluttered (524)
5/20 - 5/25 11 items decluttered (535)
5/25 -6/1 167 items decluttered (702)
6/2 - 6/9 9 items decluttered (711)
6/10 - 6/16 43 items decluttered (754)
6/17 - 6/23 123 items declutter (877)
6/24 - 6/30 56 items decluttered (928)
7/1 - 7/7 367 items decluttered (1295)
7/8 - 7/14 46 items decluttered (1341)
7/15 - 7/21 8 items decluttered (1349)


Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished
5/9 Book 14 finished
5/18 Book 15 finished
5/19 Book 16 finished
5/20 Book 17 finished
5/21 Book 18 finished
5/21 Book 19 finished
5/21 Book 20 finished

5/27 Book 21 finished
5/27 Book 22 finished
5/28 Book 23 finished
5/28 Book 24 finished
5/28 Book 25 finished
5/30 Book 26 finished
5/31 Book 27 finished
6/1 Book 28 finished
6/1 Book 29 finished
6/2 Book 30 finished
6/2 Book 31 finished
6/3 Book 32 finished (a bunch of these were TPB's that have been sitting on shelf for a long time. Read and then sell!!)
6/21 Book 33 finished
7/10 Book 34 finished


Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled

• Clean/organize
• Estimate
  • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
  • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
  • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls
  • Contractor #3 contacted but has not returned my phone call ?????
  • Contractor #3 called back and set up an appointment for Tuesday evening
  • Contractor #3 showed up and walked through the project, asked lots of questions, said he would have quote this Tuesday
  • Still waiting on quote from contractor 3
  • Contractor #3 got me the quote about 3000 over budget, guess we will do most work ourselves and contract out certain parts to save some money
• Start Date
• Project Finished

Fix items around the house

• Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
• Seal Laundry Room window casing
• Seal Cellar Door
• Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
• Re-Build Flower Beds (Done 7/6)
• Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
• Install shelving in tool shed (Done 6/22)
• Organize Tool Shed (Done 6/22)
• Scrape Tool Shed (Done 7/9)
• Prime Tool Shed (Done 7/10)
• Paint Tool Shed (Done 7/11)
• Fix Outside Phone Line (Done 5/18)
• Fix leaking gutter
• Add leaf catchers to gutters
• Insulate cellar staircase
• Re-Insulate cellar
• Lay new subfloor in Justin's’ room
• Prime Justin’s room (Done 7/10)
• Paint Justin's room (Done 7/11)
• Replace cellar stairs
• Fill/seal Driveway cracks
• Fill curbing cracks/holes