What are your aims for March 2011

ElmerFudd

ElmerFudd wrote: »

Goal 1: to increase the number of NSD's. Not much success here 3 days so far.
Goal 2: to try to increase income. Not really done.
Goal 3: reduce outgoings. Reduced shopping bill
Goal 4: not to be tempted by burger joints and coffee bars. Avoided burger bars but not coffee shops, but only been a few times this month so I guess that's positive
Goal 5: Look at the t&cs for the other credit cards and see if I can transfer some of the debt to them at a lower APR. COMPLETED
Goal 6: Daily spending diary. Must hunt round for a notepad and pencil.. So far 15 days kept and counting
Goal 7: Limit electric use. In process

Not doing too badly at the moment however got a takeaway (wasn't a burger bar but still...) last night and have had coffee out a few times this month already. However I am improving and will work on this.
Have started to slow stooze but am testing it with one card first so will wait a month or so to see if it has done something I don't want it to do!!

Karb

Karb wrote: »

[STRIKE]Lose at least one lb per week[/STRIKE]. Done
Keep up with my budget for the "pay a debt in 100 days" challenge, which means paying £75 per week - and do it without increasing my spend on the other cards Not quite there. I've fallen slightly behind, but hopefully I can still hit my final target
[STRIKE]Run at least 3 times per week, and increase the distance of my long run to 5 miles (currently 3 miles)[/STRIKE] Done
[STRIKE]No bought lunches at work[/STRIKE] Done
[STRIKE]Continue not smoking (currently 61 days since my last cig)[/STRIKE] Done
[STRIKE]Do not touch my overdraft at all[/STRIKE] Done

I'm quite impressed with all that!

glittermonster

Karb wrote: »

I'm quite impressed with all that!

Well done!!!

glittermonster

glittermonster wrote: »

My aims for March:
- update signature when payments made 5th March
- £50 spare money after all bills for this month - stick to this!!
- spend birthday prezzie money wisely
- hope to get paid early again this month (drama of 6 paydays a month which change every month) to fund a family weekend away end of March
- move petrol money to car kitty esavings again
- apply for a new interest free credit card *fingers crossed*
- loose 2lbs+
- exercise twice a week

I think I did everything but loose weight and exercise as I fell pregnant!!!

kevstanley

kevstanley wrote: »

I found this great last month - monthly aims are so much more manageable than yearly!

My list for March:

- continue to make all our bread/cakes etc (except for a bought birthday cake by special request this week) Did this, but everyone is pining for just one loaf of white sliced now, so that'll be a treat next week
- a few more runs around the park No, bit of a health scare had me walking instead
- aim to play badminton each weekend, when partner is around. If not, skip (I joined in with the girls' skipping the other day, and had forgotten how much fun it is!) No, as above, so have just been walking EVERYWHERE!
- finish rejigging filing system. Almost there, but I need a final push Yes! Hurray!
- meet NSD target for the month (didn't quite make it last month) Boiler incident meant I was one short
- buy no books Thank heavens for libraries, no books bought this year
- no clothing purchases for me Managed this - no clothing purchases so far all year :j
- paint at least one room - keep putting this off OK, BIT of a cheat here, as I finished painting the main bedroom today, so technically, I didn't do it all in March. But hey, it's close enough for me

Good luck everyone

Well done all who met all or most (or even some) of your targets - and congrats on the pregnancy, gilttermonster

SamanthaA

samanthaa wrote: »

1. 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!fail - mot/tax on car
2. meal plan for 5 weeks, already done wk 1.pass
3. online food shop/ eat out of freezer. pass
4. do wii 3 times per week for 5 weeks, have asked on health & beauty for people to join me in this! fail
5. do 30 min housework for 3 nights per week for 5 weeks (does not include filling/ emptying washer!) pass
6. break my 3 worst habits, fast food, alcohol & monthly magazines - this ones crept back in since christmas! pass, fail, pass

we have been told it takes 28 days for a habit to form - i got a month to form these babies!

try again in april.....

fedupandskint

fedupandskint wrote: »

This was nice in Feb and I managed most of them so am trying again in March with another one added

• Stick to my GC budget and aim to come in under
• Aim to meet NSD target for March (blasted Feb's!)
• Use TD only once fortnight preferably
• Over pay on CC by £130
• Pay £20 in SPC and £31 into £365 pots
• Run 3 times a week
• Restart Shred Dvd
• Start selling again on ebay for exercise equipment unused
• Go walking at least 2 weekends in March
• Continue to take in lunch for work and uni etc
• Make cakes + biscuits instead of buying them
• Sow some seeds
• Tidy garden up
• Clean house after work instead of weekends and also do some reading for course on days not cleaning
• Continue to cook meals from scratch and no ready meals or pizzas
• See if I can gather some more funds to pay back CC

• [STRIKE] Stick to my GC budget and aim to come in under
• Aim to meet NSD target for March (blasted Feb's!)
• Use TD only once fortnight preferably
• Over pay on CC by £130
• Pay £20 in SPC and £31 into £365 pots[/STRIKE]
• Run 3 times a week
• Restart Shred Dvd
• Start selling again on ebay for exercise equipment unused
• Go walking at least 2 weekends in March
• [STRIKE]Continue to take in lunch for work and uni etc
• Make cakes + biscuits instead of buying them
• Sow some seeds
• Tidy garden up
• Clean house after work instead of weekends and also do some reading for course on days not cleaning
• Continue to cook meals from scratch and no ready meals or pizzas
• See if I can gather some more funds to pay back CC[/STRIKE]

Did most of them Exercise had to take a break from while my injury heals should be back on track in May

d3mon4ngel

Completely forgot about this thread til just seen it again on the front page lol.

d3mon4ngel wrote: »

Aims for March:

• Try to spend less than £100 inc fuel on the trip down to Kent this weekend coming <-- Ended up spending £40 on fuel, £225 on breakdown recovery :eek: and £45 on train tickets for OH! - not quite the fun weekend I had planned lol
• Do NOT go into chargable overdraft! <-- Managed this :T
• Continue to keep spending diary <-- Did this every day
• Continue to badger OH about spending diary... <-- Resisting :mad:
• Spend less than £150 on groceries <-- About £130 :T
• Beat my NSD target (15) <-- Only managed 10 NSDs
• Beat my HM lunches target (18/22) <-- Managed 19 :T
• Do more baking, so that I have at least one home baked item in my HM Lunch every day <-- Did for the first two weeks, but then it kinda petered out...
• Buy a skipping rope, and actually use it at least twice a week <-- Well I bought one...
• Finish the two paper mache pots I've started <-- Still in a half finished state
• Get my sewing machine set up <-- Set up and running! Made a wallet for my grandad, a pegbag for OH's mum and my gran for mothers day, and made myself a new purse. :cool: Got two more bags cut out and ready to sew, with another three at least to complete in April.

keelni

keelni wrote: »

I love a good challenge so I have set myself a few for March

1. Put £370 in the emergency fund Done
2. Save at least £100 Done
3. Have at least 10 NSD only managed 3
4. Not use more than 350 units of electric Got it down to 325 glad to see someone else using my idea should save a few pennies
5. Fill in spending diary everyday Diary is upto date but haven't been filling it in everyday
6. Fill in direct debits for the whole year in my diary Started
7. Keep to shopping budjet £70 a week Lets not talk about this one. Tesco dtd to blame for this one

Well I failed but I didn't do as bad as I thought.
Is there a thread for April?

shezam

oooh can we start a new thread for April, this looks good!x