I'm doing 39 things
Food
1 day ago
- Buy a set of food containers that match.
fidgiegirl's Life List
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1. Pay cash for Hawaii
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2. get out of debt
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3. work on my snowball with "gazelle intensity"
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4. Start my own business
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5. keep a health journal every day for three months
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6. Enjoy both my Grandmothers and see them as much as I can
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7. Walk 10,000 steps EVERY day
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8. Renew my commitment to frugality
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9. drink more water
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10. plan meals in advance
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11. shop, spend and invest ethically
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12. follow the steps of Your Money or Your Life (YMOYL)
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13. drive less
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14. try 20 vegetable crockpot recipes
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15. write a legislator once a week
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16. become a professional interpreter
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17. visit all the State Parks in Minnesota
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18. learn french
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19. successfully cook a bean dish
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20. narrow and organize my "memory" stuff from high school and other experiences
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21. find some outstanding resources about socially responsible investing
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22. finish my Mexico scrapbook
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23. pay for my ESL practica in cash
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24. Post to my blog at least every week
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25. Join a Co-op
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26. learn Swedish
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27. Plan my ESL practica
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28. Try geocaching
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29. Make my goal list more of a list of goals, things that make me reach and stretch and improve, and less of a to-do list
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30. Read the Bible
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31. Live in the moment
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32. Play mini golf at the Walker Art Center
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33. eat more vegetables
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34. Find the most awesome slow-cooker recipe book ever and obtain it
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35. go to sweden
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36. Dream about all the things I will be able to do when I am debt free
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37. do yoga again
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38. Figure out how to do the online postage/carrier pickup thing for my online sales
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39. Create
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Recent entries
An ode to organization
3 days ago
This is kind of an annoying double-entry. I just made these little boxes and I feel that it is also a frugal thing to have done. Now I can do my little part to contribute to our PTA – while 10 or 5 cents for a pesky little seal doesn’t seem like much, if all of our 800 kids plus the staff brought in a few a year, that would add up to a lot of buck. So I’m going to do my part. Now, I don’t buy things in order to obtain these slimy little seals (I think they should just donate money and not tie it to purchasing, but that’s the purpose behind cause-related marketing, I guess), but when I happen to come across them, my school might as well make a little money off of them.
Anyway, the reason this is an ode to organization is that I’m more convinced every day that organization makes being frugal much easier. For example, once I organized my cards. Now, I know exactly what kinds of cards I have, how many, etc., and rarely need to take a last-minute trip to the store to pick up a $4 greeting card. I try to buy lots at garage sales and/or thrift stores and keep the supply stocked up. That’s just one example. For every little organizational project I spend my time setting up, it seems like I gain back that time tenfold in using the system (not to mention the decreased stress). It’s taken my like 2 and a half years to get to this point, and there are still things I’d like to organize in my life. To conclude, I think that organization is a huge part of being able to be frugal.
