I'm doing 24 things
I’ve beend doing this for a few weeks now, 3 if not 4 times a week. It feels great.
Luke Walker's Life List
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1. make my own lunches
3 people -
2. grow vegetables in my back yard
1 person -
3. Buy more organic food
1 cheer9 people -
4. learn spanish
17,681 people -
5. Get all my mp3's properly tagged
488 people -
6. eat healthy
1 cheer3,483 people -
7. Improve my posture
2,792 people -
8. get out of debt
12,094 people -
9. design my website
71 people -
10. save for retirement
258 people -
11. go to the gym regularly
820 people -
12. learn how to prepare 10 excellent meals
816 people -
13. blog more often
405 people -
14. Save money
16,108 people -
15. floss daily
404 people -
16. Read more books
11,816 people -
17. make a random person happy
1 cheer39 people -
18. learn arabic
2,318 people -
19. identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
7,969 people -
20. get corrective eye surgery or lasik
1,102 people -
21. get rid of all my clutter
1,133 people -
22. digitize my old photos
35 people -
23. stop eating McDonalds
41 people -
24. write a book
30,181 people
Recent entries
I don’t really run out of money between paycheques, technically, since I transfer money to my savings account every cheque… But only about 3%, and I haven’t been doing it that long, so it doesn’t feel like that much of a comfort zone, yet. Ideally, I get some debt paid off and start saving 10% of each cheque. SOON.
I just sucked it up, decided I could save a few dollars a week by reducing my ‘discretionary spending’, and opened an ING account on my way to work, with a small initial deposit. With my automatic weekly deposits, by the end of the summer, I won’t have any trouble paying first & last month on a new apartment if I decide to move, or covering other little things that come up. Such a nice safety net.
I know that my priority has to be repaying debt, but I’ll feel a lot more comfortable once I have $1,000 or so in the bank for a rainy day.
