20 20s for 2020

thechubbyunicorn

Here is my update for the week:
1. Walk 2020km (282/2020)
2. Save £2020 (£400/£2020) - Saved £200 in Jan & Feb into my Help to Buy 
3. Pay off 20% of debt (2.8%/20%) - I've paid off 2.8% since the beginning of the year 
4. Read 20 books (1/20) - Read The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood this week 
5. Lose 20% of body weight (4.5lbs/49.5lbs) - Lost 4.5lbs this week 
6. Try 20 new recipes (0/20) 
7. Tick 20 things off my bucket list (0/20)
8. 20 different date days (0/20)
9. Try 20 new restaurants / cafes (0/20) 
10. Try 20 new foods (0/20) 
11. Save 20x £20 notes (0/0)
12. 20 days out on my own (0/20)
13. Make an extra £20 a week (£11/£1040) - Made £11 on Ebay this week 
14. Wear 20 items that haven't fitted me for a while (0/20)
15. Watch 20 films I've never seen before (2/20) - Watched The Invisible Man & Mothers Day 
16. Visit 20 new places (0/20)
17. Sell 20 things a month on Ebay (2/240) - Sold 2 things this week 
18. Do 20 things each month for work portfolio (0/240)
19. Organise 20 things around the house (0/20)
20. Eat 20 different cakes (1/20) - Waffle & Pancake sharing platter this week 

ancientmum

chubby unicorn, I like your no.20.  I may have to revise my list to pinch it for myself:D

Frith

1) 20 extra payments into my mortgage. Lots!

2) Lose over 20lbs+.

3) Find 20 geocaches.

4) Read 20 books. 3

5) 20 DIY jobs round the house and garden. 2 (gutter mended plus shower hose replaced).

6) 20 days freelance, and finish the project by the deadline. 6

7) 20 Ebay sales. 2

8) 20 long walks.

9) 20 craft things to give instead of Christmas cards next year.

10) 20 new Christmas decorations made for us. (Not necessarily 20 completely different ones).

11) 20 cost cutting measures (e.g change suppliers) 4 (Bulb, mortgage down £108, phone down £3, Thomas Cook refund)

12) 20 new meals. 2

13) 20/20 eye test. done

14) 20 paintings or photos up in the house.

15) 20 mins of Duolingo Welsh 3 times a week. missed 3 so far this year

16) 20 new ingredients that I have never cooked with before.

17) 20 trips out with son 2. 2 (football match and cinema)

18) 20 jars of preserve.

19) 20 steps to make son 2's life easier. 1 (radar key)

20) 20 eco friendly measures. 1 (shopping bags)

PipneyJane

Good morning.  I hope life is treating you well.

Here is my update on my 20 20’s:-

1. Knit 20 balls of yarn (that's between 3 & 5 jumpers worth). 4/20 - This hasn’t moved much because I had to rip out and reknit the jumper that I’m creating, since I screwed up the above-waist increases.  The fourth ball used up was on a pair of socks.   
2. 20 minutes a day learning French (via Duolingo and TinyCards) for 20 weeks. Not started yet.  Modified to 20 weeks.
3. 20 minutes exercise a day for 20 weeks.
4. Read 20 books. 2/20.  False Value, by Ben Arronovich (the latest in the Rivers of London series).  People Like Us: Margaret Thatcher and Me, by Caroline Slocock (a memoir of Caroline’s time as a civil servant in Downing Street.  Fascinating.).
5. Try 20 new dinner recipes
6. 20 gardening sessions
7. Explore 20 new places 1/20 - the cathedral at Bayeux
8. Attend 20 "shows" (concerts/plays/films/BBC recordings/exhibitions) 3/20 - Frank Skinner’s “Showbiz”.  The News Quiz.  The Troy exhibition at the British Museum.
9. Do the 2020 Fashion On The Ration Challenge and keep within the coupon count. 17/66 coupons used.  (Bought a trouser suit.)
10. Phone family/friends to chat 20 times (I'm hopeless on the phone). 2/20
11. Lose 20lbs
12. Mend 20 items of clothing (yes, that includes sewing on buttons and taking up hems) 2/20 - hemmed trousers from a suit purchased in 2018.  Mended the pockets of suit jacket.
13. Declutter 20 items
14. Run 20 miles (but not all at once)
15. Save 20 x £20 out of my “allowance”(£400)
16. Make 20 site visits for work, earning mileage 20 times (it goes to the car fund).  28/20.  I have one more week of my commitment in the Huntingdon office.
17. Write 20 blog posts (in 2019, I haven't managed one yet)  5/20 
18. Log 10,000 steps on my Fitbit on 20 or more days (harder to do than it sounds). 3/20:  11.1.20 10505 steps, 22.2.20 10603 steps, 7.3.20 13527 steps 
19. Have a party in the summer and invite at least 20 friends
20. Watch at least 20 programs that have been on the DVR since 2018.  0/20

- Pip

ajmoney

I though I would come on here and update my list, I get the feeling I might get a few more of these done now!

My 20 things in 2020

1. Make 20 things (sew, knit or craft) 2 knitted teddies for friend's newborn 1/20
   
2. Bake 20 different sweet treats made pancakes for the first time on Shrove Tuesday 1/20
   
3. Make 20 new meals
4. Make 20 non meat dishes
5. Visit 20 places with Historic Scotland membership
6. Walk 20 different routes 1/20
   
7. Go on 20 bike rides 1/20
   
8. Run 20 different routes 4/20
   
9. Open water swim in 20 different locations 4/20
   
10. Find 20 geocaches
11. Plant 20 bulbs or plants not start yet but have bought 40 bulbs to plant in case I have to stay at home
    
12. Spend 20 minutes in the garden each week either gardening or enjoying it 5/52
    
13. Read 20 books 1/20
    
14. 20 donations to the local food bank
15. 20 minutes a day with no technology
16. Spend 20 minutes a week planning house and garden projects
17. Practice flute 20 times on something not work related 1/20
    
18. Listen to 20 new musical acts or groups 1/20
    
19. Support 20 local independent businesses 4/20
    
20. Do 20 things with nobody else

thechubbyunicorn

Some of these will now get lots of attention and others will need to wait until this is all over. Fingers crossed I can still complete all of them before the end of the year. I've changed number 18 "Do things for work portfolio" cos although it needs to be done it's rather boring so I've borrowed "Support 20 local independent businesses" from ajmoney and I'll do that instead. Here is my update for last week:

1. Walk 2020km (344/2020) - 62km walked this week (Done more than this but this is all that's logged on my Fitbit) 
2. Save £2020 (£600/£2020) - Saved £200 to my Help to Buy account 
3. Pay off 20% of debt (2.8%/20%) 
4. Read 20 books (2/20) - Read The Incest Diary this week 
5. Lose 20% of body weight (4.5lbs/49.5lbs) 
6. Try 20 new recipes (0/20) 
7. Tick 20 things off my bucket list (0/20)
8. 20 different date days (0/20)
9. Try 20 new restaurants / cafes (1/20) Mharsanta, Glasgow 
10. Try 20 new foods (0/20) 
11. Save 20x £20 notes (0/0)
12. 20 days out on my own (0/20)
13. Make an extra £20 a week (£81/£1040) - Made £70 on Ebay this week 

14. Wear 20 items that haven't fitted me for a while (0/20)
15. Watch 20 films I've never seen before (2/20)
16. Visit 20 new places (0/20)
17. Sell 20 things a month on Ebay (3/240) - Sold 1 item this week 
18. Support 20 local independent businesses (0/20)

19. Organise 20 things around the house (0/20)
20. Eat 20 different cakes (2/20) - Jazzie Birthday Cake (Mum's)

DundeeDoll

thechubbyunicorn said:

Some of these will now get lots of attention and others will need to wait until this is all over. 

Indeed. I'm now up to 96. The last 2 weeks have been manic with work, but calming down a bit so will spend some more time on my list. I've updated below with some of the covid-19 reflections. Thanks again to OP for this lovely challenge.

1. Read 20 recommended books: 10/20 (I suspect this one's not going to be difficult - i was totally unable to read for a couple of weeks when this all kicked off but now back in the swing)
2. 2020 minutes in garden: 355/2020 (I think this may be an underestimate - i just forgot to update - but i am going to use some of this time to get to grips with the beds. exciting
3. Watch 20 classic films: 3/20 (looking forward to movie night with dd2 - have found some unpopped popcorn and she has netflix yay)
4. Listen to 20 symphonies: 4/20 (i understand there's now some cracking encores going to be streamed so i may even start this one again!)
5. 20 ticketed events: 8/20 (ditto for theatre and ballet)
   
6. Visit 20 places of worship: 5/20 (haha may become easier now i can choose a different online streamed service every Sunday)
   
7. 20 new tea rooms: 4/20 thought this one might need to go on hold, but did get a delivery for mothers day - also got one to mum then we facetimed including dd2 (in house with me), dd1 (rotterdam) and ds (aberdeen)
   
8. Cook 20 soup recipes: 6/20 (enjoying this one)
   
9. Try 20 different fish: 5/20
   
10. Try 20 flavours of ice-cream 4/20 (may need to wait for this one)
11. Chick pea recipes: 3/20 (I have found some gram flour in the pantry to next recipe will be trying out fritters)
12. Walk 2020 km: 846/2020 (Fitbit - i have dropped from a comfortable 20k steps a day to a struggle to get 10k, but working on it!)
13. Litter walks: 6/20 (this I have decide to suspend for now due to possible infection risks
14. Organise / do 20 jobs on the house: 6/20 (so glad boiler, fire, vacuum cleaner, lock and dishwasher all broke before this, though i certainly wasn't at the time!)
15. Make 20 donations to the food bank: 2/20 (may need to move to cash)
16. 20 eco changes: 8/20 (haha does cancelling my flight to USA count? i didn't, but did count earth hour)
17. 20 academic submission: 5/20 (sadly all those abstracts i wrote and got accepted have come to nought due to conferences being cancelled. no matter, need to convert to papers!)
18. Bake bread 20 times: 0/20 (still not, but it does mean i've already to bread flour and yeast in the cupboard!)
19. Declutter for 2020 minutes: 505/2020 (going well - i got rid of 34 bags of books to the Oxfam book shop before the big close down, and have reclaimed my office.
20. Pay off £2020 on the mortgage: 0/2020 (we shall see how the finances are feeling)

ajmoney

DundeeDoll said:
Litter walks: 6/20 (this I have decide to suspend for now due to possible infection risks

One of the local councillors has been using her daily walk to pick up litter.

DundeeDoll

ajmoney said:

One of the local councillors has been using her daily walk to pick up litter.

I shall get some gloves and recommence oh and I've finished another book, and finally got round to fixing the handle on my chest of drawers. So simple, so quick, so why didn't i do it months ago?! (rhetorical). DD2 and i are going to make a list of other jobs that need doing around the house. 

ajmoney

DundeeDoll said:

ajmoney said:

One of the local councillors has been using her daily walk to pick up litter.

I shall get some gloves and recommence oh and I've finished another book, and finally got round to fixing the handle on my chest of drawers. So simple, so quick, so why didn't i do it months ago?! (rhetorical). DD2 and i are going to make a list of other jobs that need doing around the house. 

It is always the way, I decided to finally clear the shed and sort it out at the weekend.  I set the whole day aside and it took an hour!  I have been putting off organising and decluttering the cupboards in one spare room and my filing cabinet in another room for so long but I am sure once I actually start it won't seem so daunting.