Elfy1807's Goals for 2014

elfy1807

Hi.

I've just discovered this thread
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4854242

and decided to join in.

My goals for 2014 (starting April 1st 2014) are as follows...

01. Start and finish 4 already owned books
02. Don't buy any more books
03. Watch at least 7 fims on my previously written "Films I want to watch" list
04. Start paying off debt to mum (owe £3080 - would like to get that down to at least £2500 by end of year)
05. Start saving for a house deposit of £5000 (goal of a minimum of £1500 by end of 2014)
06. Declutter
07. Weigh 9st (currently around 10st7)
08. Go to WW meeting every Thursday unless physically impossible due to work/being away (even if I know I'm going to be over my 5lb goal buffer - suck it up and pay the fee - should teach me to be good)
09. Attend at least one gym class every week (unless physically impossible to work/being away)
10. Take part in the £10 per day challenge
11. Save £500 so I can pay January 2015 car insurance in a lump sum
12. Save £300 for presents for Christmas 2014
13. Stick with my £10 weekly pleasure allowance
14. Increase board from £20 p/w to £25 p/w
15. Wash up for mum at least once p/w
16. Catch up with Game of Thrones with OH
17. Walk at least 10,000 steps per day
18. Finish my WDW '11 album (fill in all pages)
19. Stop buying notebooks

I've started a new thread with these on so I don't spam that board as I'm planning on updating daily.
So I'll update here with progress daily, and update on the thread weekly.

I hope you'll read and encourage me as I find forums help me a lot with my goals.
I've tried blogging but I don't really tend to keep up with the posts.

Thanks to anyone reading this.

elfy1807

Update for 01/04/14

elfy1807 wrote: »

01. Start and finish 4 already owned books No Progress
02. Don't buy any more books None bought today
03. Watch at least 7 fims on my previously written "Films I want to watch" list No Progress
04. Start paying off debt to mum (owe £3080 - would like to get that down to at least £2500 by end of year) No Progress
05. Start saving for a house deposit of £5000 (goal of a minimum of £1500 by end of 2014) No Progress
06. Declutter No Progress
07. Weigh 9st (currently around 10st7) No Progress - this will be a weekly update on Thursdays
08. Go to WW meeting every Thursday unless physically impossible due to work/being away (even if I know I'm going to be over my 5lb goal buffer - suck it up and pay the fee - should teach me to be good) No Progress - again updated on Thursdays
09. Attend at least one gym class every week (unless physically impossible to work/being away) No Progress - missed my usual class due to overtime
10. Take part in the £10 per day challenge Made £47.77 due to second job & overtime at first job £47.77/£300
11. Save £500 so I can pay January 2015 car insurance in a lump sum No Progress
12. Save £300 for presents for Christmas 2014 No Progress
13. Stick with my £10 weekly pleasure allowance Restarting this one on Friday (my restart day) as went completely out the window in March)
14. Increase board from £20 p/w to £25 p/w No Progress - Will do this after my first pay day of second job
15. Wash up for mum at least once p/w No Progress
16. Catch up with Game of Thrones with OH No Progress - Usually a Sunday thing
17. Walk at least 10,000 steps per day Walked 30848 steps today
18. Finish my WDW '11 album (fill in all pages) No Progress
19. Stop buying notebooks No new notebooks bought today

elfy1807

Update for 02/04/14

elfy1807 wrote: »

01. Start and finish 4 already owned books No progress - although I have 2 books started ages ago - might pick one up and start reading it again in bed tonight. I'll let you know tomorrow
02. Don't buy any more books No books bought today
03. Watch at least 7 fims on my previously written "Films I want to watch" list No progress - but did look at list. And looked at updating/adding to it but got myself all confuddled so left it be
04. Start paying off debt to mum (owe £3080 - would like to get that down to at least £2500 by end of year) No progress - this is something that is gonna happen either on pay day or right before pay day after seeing what the rest of the month has been like
05. Start saving for a house deposit of £5000 (goal of a minimum of £1500 by end of 2014) No progress - waiting for payday
06. Declutter No progress
07. Weigh 9st (currently around 10st7) No progress - find out my "official" weight tomorrow
08. Go to WW meeting every Thursday unless physically impossible due to work/being away (even if I know I'm going to be over my 5lb goal buffer - suck it up and pay the fee - should teach me to be good) No progress - tomorrow
09. Attend at least one gym class every week (unless physically impossible to work/being away) No progress - I work late Wednesday night so can't attend classes I'd like to. Tuesdays is my preferred day, but there's Zumba on a Thursday night too so I'm planning on going tomorrow
10. Take part in the £10 per day challenge No progress
11. Save £500 so I can pay January 2015 car insurance in a lump sum No progress - waiting for payday on friday
12. Save £300 for presents for Christmas 2014 No progress - waiting for payday on friday
13. Stick with my £10 weekly pleasure allowance No progress - Ignoring it this week. Gonna get my hair cut with the extra little bit of money left from the unexpected money from the beginning of the week and starting again on friday
14. Increase board from £20 p/w to £25 p/w No progress - waiting for second job to start paying
15. Wash up for mum at least once p/w No progress - I used to do this on my day off and for some reason I lost track. Tomorrow is my day off
16. Catch up with Game of Thrones with OH No progress - waiting til weekend
17. Walk at least 10,000 steps per day Completed. Just. Currently on 10173 steps. A slow day compared to the rest of the week, but I did it.
18. Finish my WDW '11 album (fill in all pages) No progress
19. Stop buying notebooks No notebooks bought today

mobo1980

:wave: Hi Elfy

good luck with your list !

There are quite a few on there that apply to myself -getting to 9stone i'm also floating around the 10st7 mark , also got books to read and mortgage deposit to save for :beer:

Mobo xx

Ooh and I have an obsession with notebooks so I can write myself lists

elfy1807

mobo1980 wrote: »

:wave: Hi Elfy

good luck with your list !

There are quite a few on there that apply to myself -getting to 9stone i'm also floating around the 10st7 mark , also got books to read and mortgage deposit to save for :beer:

Mobo xx

Ooh and I have an obsession with notebooks so I can write myself lists

Hi mobo.
Thanks for popping in.

Yeah... my obsession with notebooks is exactly that - I love writing lists.
The reason I've got so many unused ones lying about is because I have a weird OCD with how I write in notebooks.
If it's not perfect then I get frustrated. Even the 50p Tesco notebooks I have an issue writing in haha.
It's also the reason my WDW album isn't finished.

Good luck with your own goals - losing those final 21lbs to get to 9st is hard isn't it?? Haha

mobo1980

Hi

yes trying to get to 9stone is my everest

I have a gym membership an excerise dvd and a dog to walk , I get down to about 10st6 then start to go the other way again :rotfl:
It's the junk food i'm an addict

What lists do you like to write yourself ? mine are mainly debtfree targets , food and cleaning related !

Mobo xx

elfy1807

I've climbed Mount Snowdon and Scafell Pike in the last year and I honestly think they were both easier than losing this final bit of weight lol.

I used to have a gym membership when I was on my initial get fit kick. I thought I wouldn't take to it, but I loved it.
I was in the gym 4 mornings a week and doing 5-6 classes a week. And then they changed all the classes to times when I couldn't go due to work commitments and made the decision to quit my membership as it was £40 a month I couldn't afford if I wasn't using it.

But I needed something to kickstart my attempts again, so have been attending one class a week at a cost of £5.80 which I take out of my £10 weekly pleasure allowance. I prefer to go to zumba on a tuesday night, but I worked late instead so I'm going to a different zumba class tonight.
I've often thought about dvds, but they're not for me. I've bought wii fit, I've bought just dance, I've looked at routines on youtube but I just feel silly.
I can't commit to it regularly because I don't like doing it in front of my family, so have to schedule it for when noone's around. Which isn't very often. There's always someone about, or I'm at work when there's a free house.

List wise - I write everything. To do lists for the day, to do lists for the week, bucket lists, revised bucket lists for what I think is actually achievable, budgeting lists - I write down what I'm going to put my wages towards, weight goals. I have a list of films to watch (as mentioned in my goals list up there).
I'm the organiser in my friendship group/my relationship, so when we go away I have lists of local petrol stations, supermarkets, parking (with their prices and where they are in reference to what we're visiting there such as shops and town centres), local pubs and eating establishments, everything.
And there we go... I just made a list of lists. Oh dear

elfy1807

Update for 03/04/14

elfy1807 wrote: »

01. Start and finish 4 already owned books Yes. Started. Not last night as got caught up watching HIMYM. Started reading The Wedding Diaries by Sam Binnie. Best friend bought me it (and the sequel) for Christmas 2013. I started reading it at the beginning of the year but life got in the way and put it down. But I've restarted. Currently on page 80 of 292
02. Don't buy any more books Nope.
03. Watch at least 7 fims on my previously written "Films I want to watch" list Looking into which ones I fancy first
04. Start paying off debt to mum (owe £3080 - would like to get that down to at least £2500 by end of year)
05. Start saving for a house deposit of £5000 (goal of a minimum of £1500 by end of 2014)
06. Declutter
07. Weigh 9st (currently around 10st7) Got weighed today. Currently 10st5. Bit better than I expected. I've not been brilliant with food today but I'll be back on it tomorrow. Promise.
08. Go to WW meeting every Thursday unless physically impossible due to work/being away (even if I know I'm going to be over my 5lb goal buffer - suck it up and pay the fee - should teach me to be good) Yep. I went. And I was dead on my 5lb buffer so didn't have to pay. Only half a pound put on in 3 weeks so not bad. Need to stick with it this week so I go down, not up and end up paying. Tomorrow. I promise.
09. Attend at least one gym class every week (unless physically impossible to work/being away) Yep yep yep. Proper sweat on at Zumba tonight. Felt good
10. Take part in the £10 per day challenge Nothing new today. My grandma did give me £10, but it was for a haircut I had this morning. So I'm technically no better off than I was this morning, but I'm not worse off either
11. Save £500 so I can pay January 2015 car insurance in a lump sum
12. Save £300 for presents for Christmas 2014
13. Stick with my £10 weekly pleasure allowance Tomorrow
14. Increase board from £20 p/w to £25 p/w
15. Wash up for mum at least once p/w
16. Catch up with Game of Thrones with OH
17. Walk at least 10,000 steps per day Yep. I can't recall the exact amount, but it was only just over 10000. Went out for a 3 mile walk this afternoon to make sure I hit it.
18. Finish my WDW '11 album (fill in all pages)
19. Stop buying notebooks None today

elfy1807

Update for 04/04/14

elfy1807 wrote: »

01. Start and finish 4 already owned books No further in my book today. Bit disappointed[COLOR]
02. Don't buy any more books None[COLOR]
03. Watch at least 7 fims on my previously written "Films I want to watch" list
04. Start paying off debt to mum (owe £3080 - would like to get that down to at least £2500 by end of year)
05. Start saving for a house deposit of £5000 (goal of a minimum of £1500 by end of 2014)
06. Declutter
07. Weigh 9st (currently around 10st7) Better than yesterday but not brilliant.[COLOR]
08. Go to WW meeting every Thursday unless physically impossible due to work/being away (even if I know I'm going to be over my 5lb goal buffer - suck it up and pay the fee - should teach me to be good)
09. Attend at least one gym class every week (unless physically impossible to work/being away)
10. Take part in the £10 per day challenge Not £10, but got 59p from AppTrailers. Current total £48.36 averaging at £12.09 per day so far in April[COLOR]
11. Save £500 so I can pay January 2015 car insurance in a lump sum
12. Save £300 for presents for Christmas 2014
13. Stick with my £10 weekly pleasure allowance Nothing spent today so still within budget.[COLOR]
14. Increase board from £20 p/w to £25 p/w
15. Wash up for mum at least once p/w Yep. Got a message from Orange early this morning which woke me up so got up and did the dishes before mum got in from work[COLOR]
16. Catch up with Game of Thrones with OH
17. Walk at least 10,000 steps per day 12872[COLOR]
18. Finish my WDW '11 album (fill in all pages)
19. Stop buying notebooks None, but so tempted by the DC Comic book notebooks at work[COLOR]

elfy1807

Update for 04/04/14

elfy1807 wrote: »

01. Start and finish 4 already owned books No further in my book today. Bit disappointed
02. Don't buy any more books None
03. Watch at least 7 fims on my previously written "Films I want to watch" list
04. Start paying off debt to mum (owe £3080 - would like to get that down to at least £2500 by end of year)
05. Start saving for a house deposit of £5000 (goal of a minimum of £1500 by end of 2014)
06. Declutter
07. Weigh 9st (currently around 10st7) Better than yesterday but not brilliant.
08. Go to WW meeting every Thursday unless physically impossible due to work/being away (even if I know I'm going to be over my 5lb goal buffer - suck it up and pay the fee - should teach me to be good)
09. Attend at least one gym class every week (unless physically impossible to work/being away)
10. Take part in the £10 per day challenge Not £10, but got 59p from AppTrailers. Current total £48.36 averaging at £12.09 per day so far in April
11. Save £500 so I can pay January 2015 car insurance in a lump sum
12. Save £300 for presents for Christmas 2014
13. Stick with my £10 weekly pleasure allowance Nothing spent today so still within budget.
14. Increase board from £20 p/w to £25 p/w
15. Wash up for mum at least once p/w Yep. Got a message from Orange early this morning which woke me up so got up and did the dishes before mum got in from work
16. Catch up with Game of Thrones with OH
17. Walk at least 10,000 steps per day 12872
18. Finish my WDW '11 album (fill in all pages)
19. Stop buying notebooks None, but so tempted by the DC Comic book notebooks at work

elfy1807

Update for 05/04/14

elfy1807 wrote: »

01. Start and finish 4 already owned books No progress just yet. Might read a few pages before bed if I don't zonk out first
02. Don't buy any more books None bought
03. Watch at least 7 fims on my previously written "Films I want to watch" list
04. Start paying off debt to mum (owe £3080 - would like to get that down to at least £2500 by end of year)
05. Start saving for a house deposit of £5000 (goal of a minimum of £1500 by end of 2014)
06. Declutter
07. Weigh 9st (currently around 10st7) Really not going brilliantly. Two jobs is screwing up my meal routine. Oops.
08. Go to WW meeting every Thursday unless physically impossible due to work/being away (even if I know I'm going to be over my 5lb goal buffer - suck it up and pay the fee - should teach me to be good)
09. Attend at least one gym class every week (unless physically impossible to work/being away)
10. Take part in the £10 per day challenge Earned £20.76 in second job and £37.86 in main job overtime today. £58.62 extra today taking my total to £106.98 so far in April - average £21.39 per day atm
11. Save £500 so I can pay January 2015 car insurance in a lump sum
12. Save £300 for presents for Christmas 2014
13. Stick with my £10 weekly pleasure allowance Spent £2.92 today on food
14. Increase board from £20 p/w to £25 p/w
15. Wash up for mum at least once p/w
16. Catch up with Game of Thrones with OH Plan is to watch another episode tomorrow
17. Walk at least 10,000 steps per day Oh yeah!! The second job involves a lot of walking - 23021 without even trying
18. Finish my WDW '11 album (fill in all pages)
19. Stop buying notebooks None bought today either