Newgirly's January challenge

newgirly

I have decided to set myself some mini challenges for each month during 2012, its easy to get a bit stuck in a rut and I often spend more time thinking or writing about the things I want to achieve than actually doing them.



SO for January I am setting myself 5 tasks:

1. Pay £817 off the 0% cc
2. Earn £167 (1 /12th of my £2012 target)
3. Stick to a £5 a day grocery budget (5, 1 dog, 2 cats)
4. Lose 7 lbs
5. Only drink alcohol once a week

If anyone would like to join me and set their own challenges that would be great, I am hoping to vary the ideas every month so new ideas I can pinch are very welcome.:D

pavlovs_dog

funnily enough I was just thinking of something similar. Mine shall be

1. Packed lunch to work every working day in January (20 days)
2. at least 30 mins exercise 3x a week (even if it is only the exercise bike/wii fit/dvd until i get into the habit)
3. keep grocery spends under £180 for month, need to run down the freezer
4. finish de-junking the study by the end of January
5. Get guttering on house sorted.

[Deleted User]

Hey count me in!
For January I would like to
1) Lose 7lb
2) Exercise at least twice a week
3)Take a pack lunch into work everyday
4)Give up alcohol (eeeeek!! :eek::eek: hoping it will help with the weight loss tho!)
5)get grocery spends in at £150 and have cleared out the freezer ready to defrost!

newgirly

Hooray, I'm not on my own , thanks for joining !

TYO ours are quite similar, except I can't face giving up alcohol completely :beer:

*Jellie*

This is what I do rather than new years resolutions! It will be good to have company. I'll come back later when I've finalised mine!!

beth111

Count me in please.

January

1. Overpay/Save £380
2. Exercise 3 times a week
3. Earn an extra £100
4. Stick to budget's
5. De-clutter house

newgirly

Happy new year everyone

Today will be a NSD, as we are out for lunch and I have some wine left from xmas to take with us.
Upping the earnings with a few surveys if possible and getting dd to show me how to ebay again. I'm not sure if right after xmas will be the right time for that though, is everyone broke and not buying at the moment?

Other than that probably cleaning out the fridge to see what is still edible !

newgirly

Its going well for me with the extra earning so far this month, £83 selling an old gold necklace , plus £43 from topcashback.

The drinking less alcohol is going ok too, I desperatly wanted a nice glass of wine tonight but resisted, and I'm still on track with the fiver a day food budget. I'm feeling confident this month will be ok , except for the weight loss and thats the one I would like to tackle most of all.

[Deleted User]

well done newgirly! :jthose are fab achievements and only a few days in!

Well so far I have stuck to my pack lunches/no alcohol/using up freezer challenges plus am planning day 3 of exercise today :A(long may this one last!)

still been hoovering up xmas chocs at home and work though so am not hopeful for the wt loss and ditto thats the one I really need to focus on!! ah well still 25ish days of january left there is still hope!!

silvermist05

I'll join you too mine our
1. Pay extra £10 off credit card
2. Exercise 3 times a week
3. Lose 4lbs
4. Fill in spending diary everyday
As you can see i'm starting off with small steps, don't want to set myself yp to fail on the first month.

newgirly

Hi silvermist, thanks for joining us!