23 for 2023

PurpleJay

What a great idea, can I join you please? 

My list.

1. Gift 23 things on local freecycle group
2. Sell 23 things on ebay
3. Donate 23 bags of stuff to charity 
4.Walk for at least 23 mins every day 
5. Bake 23 times
6. Try 23 new recipies 
7. Meditate 23 times
8. Save extra £23 per month for Christmas 2023
9. Lose 23lb (twice)
10. Read/listen to 23 books
11. Watch 23 films
12. Spend at least 23 mins per day cleaning
13. Socialise 23 times
14. 23 days of duolingo
15. Only drink alcohol on 23 occasions in 2023.
16. Do 23 things from my ‘Things to do around the house’ list
17. Do gardening 23 times
18. Get rid of 23 items of clothing
19. Get rid of 23 items from loft
20. Take part in 23 MSE challenges
21. Drink 23 glasses of water per week
22. Enter 23 competitions per month
23. Do 23 surveys per month

Tashja

Happy New Year everyone Up and raring to go . . . Not! Obviously a late night and then fireworks were going off until 3am around here

Just looking at the list as we have had another potentially big change of circumstances which might make one or two items on my list slightly more challenging - I have never been afraid of a challenge so we shall keep going and see where we end up by 2024.

I managed to complete my Food Hygiene Level 3 this week so taking that as a win for getting it off the big to-do list although that list has now grown massively as I only have a year to try and sort out a whole house to possibly become a rental property Good job I thrive on chaos and a million things to do at once! 

Hope everyone else gets off to a great start and has a fantastic 2023 x 

PipneyJane

PipneyJane said:

Count me "in", please.  I love the idea behind these challenges and have participated in previous years but not in 2022.  At the moment, my list isn't fully formed.  Here's the start:

1. Read 23 books
2. Use up at least 23 balls of yarn by knitting or crocheting them into items
3. Use 23 new-to-me recipes
4. Go to the cinema at least 6 times.  (I get "free" tickets via my bank.  Might as well use them.)
5. Go to the theatre 4 times.
6. Run in an organised 5k race.
7.  Continue with my 15 minutes a day Duolingo.  (I'm currently on day 930.  Started in 2020.)
8. 23 sessions of weight training.
9. Socialise 23 times.  This doesn't include the weekly pub quiz, RPG sessions, etc, that are already in my calendar.
10. Blog at least 23 times.
11. Spend an hour per week for 23 weeks, writing that book.  
12. Do 23 singing lessons/practice sessions resulting therefrom.  (My voice and breathing haven't recovered from Covid.)

Items 13-23 TBA.

- Pip

Happy New Year All

I’ve just worked out the rest of my challenges and slightly amended a few.  Here they are:-

1. Read 23 books.
2. Use up at least 23 balls of yarn by knitting or crocheting them into items.
3. Use 23 new-to-me recipes and make dishes that I’ve never attempted before.
4. Go to the cinema at least 6 times.  (I get "free" tickets via my bank.  Might as well use them.)
5. Go to the theatre 4 times.
6. Restart my running and run in an organised 5k race.
7.  Continue with my 15 minutes a day Duolingo.  (I'm currently on day 943.  Started in 2020.)
8. 23 sessions of weight training.
9. Socialise 23 times.  This doesn't include the weekly pub quiz, RPG sessions, etc, that are already in my calendar.
10. Blog at least 23 times.
11. Spend an hour per week for 23 weeks, writing that book.  
12. Do 23 singing lessons/practice sessions resulting therefrom.  (My voice and breathing haven't recovered from Covid in December 2019.  Yes, I had it before it was famous.)
13. Make 23 phone calls to family and friends, just to catch up and chat.
14. Replace Lucky Car.  I have no choice.  At the end of August, the border of London’s ULEZ - ultra low emission zone - will be extended to include all of the outer-London suburbs.  He’s diesel, 13 years old and does not comply.
15. Go on a “proper” holiday, overseas.  We haven’t had one since the start of the Pandemic.  Destination TBA.
16. Continue doing the Fashion on the Ration Challenge on MSE.
17. Not buy any yarn in 2023.  This excludes the one skein that was ordered before Christmas, but won’t be delivered until next week.
18. Finish and sew up all my knitting and crochet WIPs or frog them.   I think there are 8 in the queue, including a couple of cardigans that just need buttons sewn on.  (This excludes the jumper and two pairs of socks currently on the needles.)
19. Dust off my sewing machine and sew a suit.
20. Complete at least one embroidery.  
21. Have 23 gardening sessions, where I do more than look at the weeds and lament.
22. For 23 weeks, spend at least an hour tidying up.  I am not one of your naturally tidy people, I want to change that. (I can put a pen on an empty table and, 10 seconds later, it’ll look like a bomb has hit it.)
23.  Reduce my Podcast queue from 639 to under 200! God knows how it got so high!

- Pip

YorksLass

Have achieved #6 on my list for this month (shave 23p a day off the grocery budget each month) by putting £7.13 in a jar.  Tbf, it's a relatively simple one since all I've done is move the cash from my purse into the jar.  The hard part will be making the budget stretch that bit further.     Still, it's a start!

CMD79

Hey everyone! This is a great thread; thanks for the inspiration!

Can I join in too please? It’s taken me a few days to think of my list so thanks for some great ideas to earlier posters:

1.     Declutter 2023 kilos

2.     Have 23 ‘Happy’ Days with my DD

3.     23 Date nights

4.     Read 23 books

5.     Write for 23 hours per week

6.     Socialize 23 times

7.     Clean for 23 minutes per day

8.     Exercise for 23 minutes 5 days per week 

9.     Make £23 extra a day

10.  Spend 23 hours doing the garden in Spring and again in Summer

11.  Spend 23 days ‘doing’ the house

12.  Enter 23 competitions per week

13.  Enter 23 writing competitions this year

14.  Make 23 craft projects from stash

15.  Do 23 activities

16.  23 acts of kindness/volunteering

17.  Create 23 pieces of ‘art’

18.  Make 23 personal investments

19.  Drink 23 glasses of water per week

20.  Limit to 23 cups of tea per week

21.  Start an official side hustle in 2023

22.  Do something impressive at work 23 times

23.  Get debt free in 2023

There seems like a lot to do! But I have made a start by having a really amazing day in North Wales with my family, and especially DD who has been on very good form; no whinging, she walked 7 miles, ate all her dinner, enjoyed her Heeleys in the dark with the Christmas lights up and was really good fun. We travel back home tomorrow, so the serious business gets started then!

Good luck everyone on your own challenges and journeys through 2023! Xxx

TC77

So many ideas and challenges. 
Adding another as realise will help with accountability 23 days eating nothing with added sugar. Would be great if can be consecutive  days but any will be good. Gookg to set up a system for recording progress. Interested in how others will be keeping track ! 
Good luck and happy new year!

CMD79

TC77 said:

So many ideas and challenges. 
Adding another as realise will help with accountability 23 days eating nothing with added sugar. Would be great if can be consecutive  days but any will be good. Gookg to set up a system for recording progress. Interested in how others will be keeping track ! 
Good luck and happy new year!

Yes, I'd be interested to know what others do to track as well. I'm thinking about a bullet journal myself.…

SIRENS

Hi All 
Could I give this a go as well please, this is my list, it may need tweaking still, I have also taken some ideas from you all as well (some brilliant ideas)

23 in 2023

1- Watch 23 new to me films

2- Complete at least 23 Duolingo lessons per month (I have just started yesterday)

3- 10k steps at least 23 times per month

4- 5 minutes of Yoga 23 times a month

5- Eat 5 pieces of fruit and veg at least 23 times a month

6- Save £23 per month and don't touch it until end of year!

7- Drink 3 glasses of water at least 23 times a month

8- Go for a long walk (60 min <) 23 times

9- Sell 23 items

10- Donate 23 items to cs

11- Loose at least 23lb

12- 23 veggie dinners

13- 23 Days out with the kids

14- 2-3 no spend days every week (apart from bills and travel)

15- Cook 23 new recipes

16- 23 garden chores

17- 23 surveys/competitions each month

18- 23 knitting projects completed

19- Eat 2-3 yoghurts a week (I do not like yoghurt!)

20- 23 ice creams for the year

21- 23 diy jobs round the house

22- 23 exercises (online/bike/treadmill) per month

23- 23 new to me cakes or biscuits for the year. 

I realise some are frivolous and some are more challenging, I'm also unsure how to track it maybe in an old notebook or through the notes app on my iPad.

tinkerbelluk

CMD79 said:

TC77 said:

So many ideas and challenges. 
Adding another as realise will help with accountability 23 days eating nothing with added sugar. Would be great if can be consecutive  days but any will be good. Gookg to set up a system for recording progress. Interested in how others will be keeping track ! 
Good luck and happy new year!

Yes, I'd be interested to know what others do to track as well. I'm thinking about a bullet journal myself.…

I track using OneNote with linked spreadsheets as I can access it on my phone so I don't forget and then update it in my bullet journal twice a month as I like keeping a record

tinkerbelluk

So many great ideas and great to have so many people on board    I'm already making a start and knocked off a tech-free night last night and a new film (Glass Onion) which was fab.  Also started a new book yesterday so all positive so far (but then we're only on day 2   

Off to enter some comps before I make some soup for dinner I was hoping to do a new one, but the family are having none of it so I'll have to plan in a new meal this week.