Get It Done Weekly Challenge

dannie

dannie wrote: »

Hi,

After the tidy up, a new list from Sunday until the end of Saturday will include -

1) Two expensive health appointment/bills today so work out budget for the remainder of the month.
2) Update food stock record which will assist no.1 and also improve health from using this existing food.
3) Update forum posts.
4) Consider start of year challenges and whether to continue with these or not. Are they a necessity?
5) Start a new compost bin and read about wormeries.
6) How to improve the second half of the year?

1) A regular thing; just try and buy bare essentials.
2) Updated this record but do not think my present diet is improving my health.
3) Updated as much as possible.
4) These set challenges have been disappointing but also reveal what's fun or not; the latter is moreso. Unsure about the course of action regarding these.
5) New compost bin started and read about wormeries.
6) Don't know how to improve the rest of the year apart from simplifying everything.

dannie

Hi mavvymoo and cabriolean,

Thanks for your message. Interesting to see your lists. Hope they went well.

Hope to post my new list soon as possible.

dannie

From last Sunday until the end of Saturday :-

1) Use up perishable food. Check simple recipes to enable this.
2) Relocate strawberry plantlets.
3) Collect and pay for new glasses.
4) Due to poor health, decluttering in order to simplify now while I can.
5) Consider care of "pets" due to ill health.

mavvymoo

mavvymoo wrote: »

Hi Dannie
My list for this week is
1,Ironing :eek: So much may take it over a few days
2,Paint garden table and chairs (weather permitting )

3, Creosote the small chicken house (already done the big one took me all of last week :eek:

Thats all and believe me that is enough !!

Mav x

Ironing done and painting the table and chairs done and look good

the creosoting didnt get done as I had done enough last week :rotfl:

This week

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Already sorted out 3 bags for charity shop .
Creosote little house or at least start on the middle sized one.
Start sorting paperwork for burning therefore trying to clear and declutter drawers at the same time !! Which is going to be a hard long slog :eek:

Good luck with both of your lists

Mav x

dannie

dannie wrote: »

From last Sunday until the end of Saturday :-

1) Use up perishable food. Check simple recipes to enable this.
2) Relocate strawberry plantlets.
3) Collect and pay for new glasses.
4) Due to poor health, decluttering in order to simplify now while I can.
5) Consider care of "pets" due to ill health.

1) Nothing was wasted and simple recipes checked. Still lots more perishables to work through however.
2) Relocated these plants.
3) The glasses were paid for but were actually received broken:eek: hence they have been returned. Next week maybe will get another chosen pair back.
4) Decluttering bits and pieces but a long term job really that has to fit in alongside life's general routine.
5) Updated ideas for this such as in the short term help from family, profit-making (e.g. pet-sitting services) and non-profit making (e.g. cinnamon trust) organisations.

Today will be a tidy up day and to decide about the next set of tasks. Hope everybody has done okay with their lists.

dannie

From last Sunday until the end of Saturday -

1) Monthly online grocery shop required, taking into account last months and yearly expenditure plus what food stock I already have.
2) Stock up on kitchen rolls at a local Cash and Carry (£1.99 x 15).
3) Check a local blackcurrant bush for free berries.
4) Bicycle needs repairing as this is used for money saving ventures.
5) Keep the week simple.

dannie

1) Monthly shopping done but the order was incomplete (UHT milk) and outgoing yearly/June expenditure calculated.
2) 2 bags so far due to big saving.
3) Couldn't find the blackcurrant bush but did find some free raspberries.
4) Cycle maintenance still in progress.
5) Using up food "stores", avoiding the shops, gardening a little task at a time and sowing seeds, outdoor activities before or avoiding (by route) busy traffic, that kind of thing...

dannie

4) Bicycle repaired.
5) Keeping the week simple was average. For me, money saving often causes a mess and requires being intricate. Would still be good to work upon for improvement however.

mothernerd

Hi everyone. It has been a while since I posted here but would like to rejoin.

Have spent 15 weeks resting and doing lots of physiotherapy (initially an injured leg, but several other problems uncovered and dealt with along the way - don't listen to your mother when she keeps telling you it's old age and you just have to put up with it.

Plan was to have my house up for sale by the end of March so not being allowed (able) to go up a ladder or carry anything wasn't ideal but am now reasonably fit (have been able to stand on both feet for 4 weeks now and after many weeks of holding onto the washing line to get up and down the yard and always having a hand spare to 'save' myself if the bad leg gave way, you don't know what an achievement that is).:j

I have set myself a slightly ambitious 20 point plan for the week but will post it tomorrow as I am having a difficult day - was helping bake for mum's church fair on Friday and despite weeks of saying we weren't doing much and it would be simple - well my mother lied:eek: (lots).:eek:

Was going to have an easy day yesterday but managed quite a bit but am totally wrecked today - will be having words with mum next Friday (she may not talk to me for a while so I need to prep other people).

dannie

Hi again mothernerd and any list-makers,

As with mothernerd, I am still planning my list.

P.S. mothernerd, hope you continue to feel fitter. Sounds similar to my (past) leg injury; all those different techniques to move around of which the washing line was also one.