What are your aims for March 2011

Mum-2-Be

Eat healthier, pregnancy is not an excuse to veg out lol!
Make some headway with my HSBC complaint

I have also sent off 2 full and final settlement offers to 2 DCAs today, fingers crossed they accept!

Little_Miss_Determined

I did the February one but then completly forgot about it. I'm going to bookmark it this time to help me remember it. I think some of these are the same as last time

1) Spend as little of my Grocery budget as possible (£260 includes food, pet food etc, cleaning products, alcohol and stuff for the house) £219.28/260 so far.
2) Clean the landing carpet using stardrops (want to see whether it works so I don't have to pay to hire a carpet cleaner)
3) Sort out all of the DVD's, throw away any that are scratched and watch old ones rather than buy any new ones.
4) Find nice pictures that I've taken, print them and put them in the empty frames I've got, put them up in the living room (I'm not going to buy new pictures when I've got lots of beautiful photos and frames I can reuse)
[STRIKE]
5) Finish taking the turf off the veg patch extensions and tidy the raised beds.
[/STRIKE]6) Plant seeds ready for veg patch. (1 lot planted so far )
7) Mend the gate
[STRIKE]
8) Nag OH until he mends the waterpipe in the outdoor loo.
[/STRIKE] Feel bit guilty about this because it took much, much, much longer to do than expected and cost more too
9) Cycle to work at least 10 times. (8/10)

I've also:
* washed the dog.
* been to the tip three times.

SuziQ1962

Good topic!
I would like to-
Stick to my budget
Pay off the small o'draft from last month
Get a 2nd part time job
Make my family understand about budgetting and how skint we are!
Sell some stuff on ebay
Lose weight!
Exercise every day!
Be positive about my life-even the crappy bits!

nakiwala123

Hello,

My aim for march is to pay off my the last off my cc debt to be finally debt free.
Draw up a plan for the start of a house deposit, Im 27 and still with my mother (bless her she has been very kind) so it's time I thought about moving out and gaining independent.

PollyBanwell

PollyBanwell wrote: »

During March I am going to:
*Relist items and add items for ebay. Aim to make £50 to put towards my ASDA card.
*Keep taking in own lunch to office job (1/8)
*Try to take own lunch to promo job (more difficult with no firdge/microwave!) (0/18)
*Pay off my share of the holiday, [STRIKE]FLIGHTS[/STRIKE]/ACCOMODATION
*Start a new £2 coin savings pot and put total towards ASDA card

Oh dear - my third aim failed terribly today! I spent £6 on lunch! I didn't take anything with me and ended up with a jacket potato and a coke in a really nice cafe! Whoops! Should be able to do better tomorrow! But I have paid off the flights so that's half a one done! :rotfl:

SamanthaA

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15 LSD (I can def do 13, but want to push myself) A none LSD is anything over the £1.50 per school day my son mugs me for each morning & does not inc DD, etc. It whats in my purse! Not so good, 2/13

1. Meal Plan for 5 weeks, already done wk 1. 2/5 complete
2. Online food shop/ eat out of freezer. not online, but out of freezer
3. Do Wii 3 times per week for 5 weeks, have asked on health & beauty for people to join me in this! OOPs, 1/25 done, see below
4. Do 30 min housework for 3 nights per week for 5 weeks (does not include filling/ emptying washer!) Managed 6/25 - am workin 4 x 12 hr shifts this wk, & Tuesday is my evening out!
5. Break my 3 worst habits, fast food, alcohol & monthly magazines - this ones crept back in since Christmas! No mags, 2 fast food trips & 2 evenings off wagon

We have been told it takes 28 days for a habit to form - I got a month to form these babies![/QUOTE]


Hope everyone else is doing better than me!

PollyBanwell

PollyBanwell wrote: »

This is Great! I missed the Feb one. I have been thinking about my aims and they are below. Since Dec I have been saving for a 5 day trip to Barcelona and we go this week! Feels great to know all the money is there and I won't have to worry about "paying it off" when I get back I need to have another thing to save for to keep me focused - this month it will be my ASDA card repayments.

During March I am going to:
*Relist items and add items for ebay.:) Aim to make £50 to put towards my ASDA card.
*Keep taking in own lunch to office job (2/8)
*Try to take own lunch to promo job (more difficult with no firdge/microwave!) (0/18)
*Pay off my share of the holiday, [STRIKE]FLIGHTS/ACCOMODATION[/STRIKE]*:)Start a new £2 coin savings pot and put total towards ASDA card

Have updated aims and not doing too badly! Its the lunch thing that is the hardest - especially at the promo job. Anyone got tasty, cheap lunch in a box ideas?!

Px

erinart

Can I join in too? A bit late for the start of March, but I reckon there is no time like the present.

Great idea to share aims!

Mine are:

• Contact Egg re stopping interest on CC
• Hold a Nutrimetics workshop
• Paint one of my map pictures
• Send prelim notes to Orchard project
• Keep taking out £55 cash weekly for groceries (this is for 2 adults and 1 child)
• Avoid library fines
• Sort car boot stuff
• Keep having post-it in purse with record of grocery spend (this is good for keep track when I don't get receipts)
• Start teaching son to juggle
• Re-package my tee's for sale at fete/fair later in year
• Remember thank you notes to people

:j

PollyBanwell

How are our March aims going?????

Buffythedebtslayer

Buffythedebtslayer wrote: »

I was wondering if there would be a March thread, I did post in the Feb one but never remembered to come back. In fact Feb wasn't a great month apart from my holiday which was wonderful and made me realise just how miserable I have been. So my aims for March are as follows.......

1. Take my vitamins each day not done
2. Sort out my taxes (self employed stuff) getting somewhere
3. Sort out the student loans company (possible overpayment)not done
4. File my paperwork (this has been irritating me since before Christmas....) getting somewhere
5. Go to the Dentist and ask about the pain I am getting DONE
6. exercise 3 times a weeknot done
7. work out a healthy eating plan and actually stick to it. (weight watchers??) (Dukan diet??) not done (unless there was a Creme Egg diet I haven't heard of and have been on it by accident)
8. Pay off the Tesco's spending from Holiday DONE
9. Get loan below 2500. (currently 3118) not done but v possible
10. Ebay 10 items not done

If I can do these I will feel much more in control and a Summer holiday will be a possibility.

xxxx

Welllllllll its kinda ticking along. Am surprised.

How is everyone else doing?


Buffyxx