Overall, it was a pretty good month, although busy with two fun long weekends in there.
Financial:
- Stay on top of food waste by using up 3 pantry or freezer items - peppers, rotisserie chicken & chicken broth in a one pan skillet dish. Four cans of beans & more chicken broth in chicken sausage dish. 18 overly ripe bananas in muffins. Shelf stable oatmilk & two more containers of chicken broth all got used up. Knocked it out of the park on this one!
- Continue to track net new savings for 2026 - yes
- Make $100 in side hustle - $88.63, so close
- Find one expense to optimize - this is more of a revenue optimization, but shifted money around to find a better paying savings account
- Push hard to fund 2027 expenses without pulling from savings - overall going *okay*
Family:
- Continue to help the boys navigate college & life - yes, we've had discussions around majors, work & life, safety & recreational safety (my wild child who backpacks & climbs, etc).
- Have a great trip to Boulder with M & both boys - it was fabulous
- Have a great trip to Palm Springs with my parents & sister, keep budget in check - yes!
- Have a family dinner with Sam's girlfriend - not this month. She's been super swamped with classes & work
- Continue planning for our next big trip (M's 60th) - this is on hold until we hear back about our hut reservations
- Plan for big international trip with my mom & sister - largely everything is booked. The fun planning part of activities remains
- Look into flights for my dad's trip to Japan - I have a few flights in mind, but need my nephew to confirm dates.
Fitness:
- Lose 3 lbs - I lost 2.4 lbs
- 10 strength workouts - 12/10 strength workouts
- Track nutrition - yes, 1,351/day average calories
- 13,000 steps/day - nope, 10,202/day
- Sort out medical appointments before EOY - I have a doctor's appointment set up + a DEXA scan
Personal:
- Finish list of what I'd like to do while part-time - sure, it's as much as I'm going to build on the list
- Create schedule for post December, when I'm not working - I've done a little thinking about this
- Declutter 50 items - 105 items out of the house in October
- Get together with friends - yes, hiking & dinner in Boulder
- Say yes to adventures - went to Rocky Mountain National Park, and Palm Springs with my parents
- Get to know our neighbors - caught up with our neighbor on a Sunday afternoon
- Try a new recipe - I think so, although I can't remember what it was?
What about you? How did you do with your October goals?
Wow, I see more green here than yellow - good job! I don't have any monthly goals...other than keeping up with home projects and journaling. (: And those are going great!
ReplyDeleteNice work keeping up with your home projects & journaling!! - HP
DeleteHP, I wanted to reconfirm that your decluttering counts include outdated magazines and catalogs. Is that right? If so, I’ve done a really good job recently. Not only did I get rid of the magazines and catalogs but I put together a clothing donation for a local church’s clothing closet as well as prepping a Goodwill donation which is ready to leave the house next week.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I had any of those, Tess, but if I did - I would count them! Anything out of the house counts. For big stacks of junk mail, paperwork, etc, I tend to just give it like 10 points, even if it's a stack of 100s of papers, if that makes sense. However you want to count it - you are making progress! - HP
DeleteThanks, HP!
DeleteHP, just wanted to confirm that you include outdated magazines and catalogs in your decluttering count. Is that right? If so, by that definition I decluttered quite a bit recently including clothing donated to a local church’s clothing closet and a Goodwill donation of miscellaneous items. I didn’t count them, however, so I don’t know how much left the house. Glad to see them go!
ReplyDeleteMore use it ups than not. I think you did very well in getting your list mostly completed.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.