I'm doing 38 things
($6500 to go)I can probably put in more once some bills have cleared.
randomalia's Life List
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1. pay off credit cards
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2. learn to crochet
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3. get out of debt
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4. work on my portfolio
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5. Learn to knit
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6. Buy a fire-proof lock box and keep my important stuff in it.
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7. start a blog
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8. have my own printing press
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9. get a dog
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10. be a renaissance woman
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11. get my shit together
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12. create an "anti-depression, get-up-and-live-your life" toolkit
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13. Go on a road trip
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14. raise goats
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15. Have more non-financial goals.
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16. Think of all the things I would do if I won the lottery, and then look for ways to work towards them now, even without a multimillion dollar bank account
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17. own a house on a lake
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18. Go to Disney World
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19. travel more
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20. learn to invest
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21. Buy a House
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22. save for a down payment on a house
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23. Go Kayaking
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24. learn how to ski
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25. make butter
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26. get a passport
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27. learn to sew
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28. Make a quilt
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29. Get a library card
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30. Build a future with less debt and waste.
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31. learn to make stained glass
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32. Save $10,000
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33. reupholster my couch
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34. Make something using plarn.
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35. Bake 20 different types of bread from scratch
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36. Complete my Maine State Parks Passport.
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37. get rid of my tinnitus
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38. Have a baby
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How I did it: I drove twenty minutes up the road to the L.L.Bean flagship store in Freeport, Maine and we bought two bikes. They'd been out of stock of the ones we wanted, so we learned from the staff when the next shipment of bikes was coming in and went up an hour after they arrived and snapped them up. I wanted them from Bean's because of the lifetime warranty. The store's open twenty four hours so we headed up there at 10 pm and t… Read how I did it…
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Free
How I did it: I'm putting that this took me 8 months because that's how long we've been seriously working towards this goal. During that time we've really downsized our possessions, paid off some debt, and saved as much money as we reasonably could.We left California on April 26 (I'm typing this 4 days later in a hotel in western Virginia). We're not in our final destination of Maine, yet, but we're on the way. We already have transfe… Read how I did it…
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How I did it: We decided to move 3,000 miles... without a moving truck or trailer. Deciding that we would severely downsize our possessions and decline to rent from a moving company is saving us thousands of dollars. We are getting hand me down furniture from relative who live where we are moving to, so all it looks like we'll need to buy is a bed when we get there. Also: keep in mind that most of the furniture we had here was c… Read how I did it…
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My last credit card is $878. My resolution is to pay it off before my maternity leave starts in August.
