Get It Done Weekly Challenge

dannie

7/6/15 - end 13/6/15 list:-

Today will be a tidy up day and will have a think of what to tackle this oncoming week.

SierraDelta87

Hi, thanks for the warm welcome to the board


My list for this week Sunday 31st - Sat 6th
1) Clean bathroom out and paint it up (although we did put a new toilet seat on so getting there)
2) Get F.I.L's Father's Day gift sorted (SIL has been in hospital since last Friday so have not had much chance to think of this one)
3) Sort present for colleague's baby shower
4) Pay money off credit card (£30 off)
5) Open F.D 6% regular savings and pay some in. (£170 put in)
6) Put overtime in for work
7) Lose some weight this week (1/2 a pound off)
8) Use meats in freezer up


List for this week of Sun 7th-Sat 13th
1) Paint bathroom
2) Sort out F.I.L present for Father's Day
3) Get baby present for colleague
4) Pay money off credit card
5) Put more O/T in for work
6) Lose some more weight
7) Use up more meats in freezer
8) Get meter readings done for switch to E-On


Good luck everyone xxx

Doris17

Just found this thread would love to join.


Looking to accomplish over the next week - Sunday 7th to Saturday 13th.


1. Walk to work and back 2 days, need to take the care to work for the other 3.
2. Take lunch to work everyday.
3. Pack parcels and post.
4. List 5 items on Ebay .
5. Give tomato plants to friends.
6. Weed front garden.
7. Make peanut butter cheesecake.
8. Housework 15 minutes each morning.
9. Do 1 hour of ironing (I hate ironing)
10. Walk dog every morning (instead of Mr D)
11. Stick to meal plan.


Have a good week all.xx

mothernerd

Welcome Doris17.

List for the Week commencing Sunday 7th June 2015
1) Clean corner cupboard and decide how to use it (was blocked off until some things left last week).
2) Meals using freezer veg - cauli, leeks, carrot and sweede, mixed veg, aubergines and courgettes.
3) Be more active - trying longer walks (slowly) and more dancing (limited movement).
4) Plan bigger jobs (break down into stages, use bus if necessary).
5) Weeds in yard (may involve moving things).

Keeping it simple for now. Have a great week everyone.

dannie

List until end of Saturday:-

Yesterday, had a good tidy up and decided upon:-

1) Transplanting some potato plants that have "appeared" in the compost bin. Also, found a bag of discarded "old" potatoes on the roadside which are sprouting. These are stored for now but will be planted once ready to do so. Garden seeds - sow or save for next year?
2) Count the number of (food/beverage) artificial sweeteners left and make them exceed the usage time of the last container. Aim: to reduce the intake and think/create other "sweetening" options for recipes.
3) Using things up/decluttering which I will keep a flexible task as some of it I see as "dull, upsetting stuff from the past".

Good luck Doris17, your number 7 thing to do sounds good!

P.S. Thanks SierraDelta87 for the "good luck" and thanks also mothernerd - hope your week goes well too.

dannie

Hello,

Hope everybody has had a good week. Today, I will have a tidy up day and get together another weekly list. Will post this and last weeks results as soon as possible.

(My already erratic tiring sleep pattern and now new neighbors' noise may delay things however).

dannie

dannie wrote: »

List until end of Saturday:-

Yesterday, had a good tidy up and decided upon:-

1) Transplanting some potato plants that have "appeared" in the compost bin. Also, found a bag of discarded "old" potatoes on the roadside which are sprouting. These are stored for now but will be planted once ready to do so. Garden seeds - sow or save for next year?
2) Count the number of (food/beverage) artificial sweeteners left and make them exceed the usage time of the last container. Aim: to reduce the intake and think/create other "sweetening" options for recipes.
3) Using things up/decluttering which I will keep a flexible task as some of it I see as "dull, upsetting stuff from the past".

Good luck Doris17, your number 7 thing to do sounds good!

P.S. Thanks SierraDelta87 for the "good luck" and thanks also mothernerd - hope your week goes well too.

1) Transplanted the potatoes growing in the compost bin. Those found were largely planted as some need to be left a little longer to sprout/dry out (i.e. segments). All of the seeds have been sown apart from two types that are far too many for this year.
2) Have exceeded the time that the last sweeteners lasted for. However, want to reduce these even more. An average daily consumption calculated last week will act as a goal. Plenty of ideas were done to reduce sweeteners:-
a) less in drinks (aided by small amounts of natural food flavour, better quality coffee/milk some of the time, or rarely, no sweeteners at all).
b) using other "sweetening" options (e.g. using up old previously sweetened old freezer stored recipes instead, use of berries and "clearance" priced fruit juice, use of veg. e.g. beetroot, "sweet" culinary spices/herbs, or alternatively different menu ideas using up stored coconut and yoghurt).
c) using things up and decluttering wasn't any different to usual. Those items that never really get sorted were not.

dannie

List from Sunday until end Saturday :-
Sunday - housework mainly done.
Monday onwards -
a) the usual rough daily menu plan.
b) continue planting found potatoes, sow seeds if weeding can be done or land is spare anywhere, prevent nettle plants from self-seeding, prune clematis and fertilise garden.
c) a note of "required" incoming grocery expenditures versus non-grocery to consider or do.
d) working out a routine to do various tasks when not disturbed by the neighbors, or going elsewhere from their noise to do so.

dannie

Followed my daily menu plan but also purchased some online groceries and shopped locally for reductions and offers. The found potatoes have been planted, more seeds sowed, pruned the nettles and used some leaves for edible purposes/other parts for fertiliser, clematis pruned back also and much of the garden fertilised. Still in grocery budget this month. Gate repair items will be required at some point and optical appointment due so a predicted high expenditure.

Generally, have an idea of when "noise disturbance" occurs so am working around this as best as possible. Somebody told me about "white noise" that you can listen too which along with the computer fan noise seems to help i.e. "better" than their music. Not had to use this yet however.

mothernerd

You are making progress Dannie. Didn't get round to doing a list last week 9and didn't get much done). However spent six hours at the other (up for sale) house, mostly weeding and chopping back. Filled my green bin and also (with permission) my neighbour's. A little bit of cleaning - scrubbed the toilets and wiped the bath (dead spider). Still so much to do but not found the motivation to go back yet (have bought some bedding plants to fill in blank spaces).

Desperately need to get my motivation back (or just plod along doing a bit here and a bit there). Can 'see' how tatty all my stuff is now and also jobs I have started and not completed - things I moved to get at things for DS2 still not put back/ re-housed and a table I cleared months ago (it's supposed to go downstairs) is hovering at the top of the stairs and is so convenient for all sorts of junk + things on the way up or down (plates, rubbish/ recycling/ clean clothes).