fidgiegirl

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fidgiegirl's Life List

  1. 1. Pay cash for Hawaii
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    1 person
  2. 2. get out of debt
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    8,843 people
  3. 3. work on my snowball with "gazelle intensity"
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    1 person
  4. 4. Start my own business
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    7,200 people
  5. 5. keep a health journal every day for three months
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    2 people
  6. 6. Enjoy both my Grandmothers and see them as much as I can
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    1 person
  7. 7. Walk 10,000 steps EVERY day
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    4 people
  8. 8. Renew my commitment to frugality
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    1 person
  9. 9. drink more water
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    16,023 people
  10. 10. plan meals in advance
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    104 people
  11. 11. shop, spend and invest ethically
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    2 people
  12. 12. follow the steps of Your Money or Your Life (YMOYL)
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    7 people
  13. 13. drive less
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    108 people
  14. 14. try 20 vegetable crockpot recipes
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    1 person
  15. 15. write a legislator once a week
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    1 person
  16. 16. become a professional interpreter
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    3 people
  17. 17. visit all the State Parks in Minnesota
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    4 people
  18. 18. learn french
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    8,407 people
  19. 19. successfully cook a bean dish
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    1 person
  20. 20. narrow and organize my "memory" stuff from high school and other experiences
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    1 person
  21. 21. find some outstanding resources about socially responsible investing
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    1 person
  22. 22. finish my Mexico scrapbook
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    1 person
  23. 23. pay for my ESL practica in cash
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    1 person
  24. 24. Post to my blog at least every week
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    1 person
  25. 25. Join a Co-op
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    4 people
  26. 26. learn Swedish
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    550 people
  27. 27. Plan my ESL practica
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    1 person
  28. 28. Try geocaching
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    185 people
  29. 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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    1 person
  30. 30. Read the Bible
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    2,497 people
  31. 31. Live in the moment
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    1,635 people
  32. 32. Play mini golf at the Walker Art Center
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    1 person
  33. 33. eat more vegetables
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    748 people
  34. 34. Find the most awesome slow-cooker recipe book ever and obtain it
    2 entries
    1 person
  35. 35. go to sweden
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    97 people
  36. 36. Dream about all the things I will be able to do when I am debt free
    3 entries
    1 person
  37. 37. do yoga again
    1 entry
    39 people
  38. 38. Figure out how to do the online postage/carrier pickup thing for my online sales
    1 person
  39. 39. Create
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    254 people
Recent entries
Dream about all the things I will be able to do when I am debt free (read all 3 entries…)
Food 1 day ago
  • Buy a set of food containers that match.

Dream about all the things I will be able to do when I am debt free (read all 3 entries…)
Another idea! 2 days ago
  • use my own start-up money for my hairbrained ideas

Renew my commitment to frugality (read all 11 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.


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