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The Cutting Down Alcohol challenge for October & 2025 :)
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25 please @cathybird and at target. This process is making me think...and here is a good place to record my thought process so I can look back at it...
These past few months, each time I have had alcohol I have not enjoyed it. I am not enjoying heavy or oaked white that is for sure. I don't think I am in the never drinking again camp. I quite like 25 as it equates to drinking 20% of the time, and I tend to apply the 20/80 rule in many other aspects of life. Some months I will go over 25 days but I don't want to go under. A long meandering way of saying I will stick to 25 days for August too. Thank you.If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them
Emergency fund 350/1000
Buffer fund 100/100
Debt Free (again) 25/07/20255 -
22/20 like @doingitanyway I'm not enjoying wine as much. I'm not ready to push myself for a target I might fail at but I am pleased with progressMade it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became
In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!6 -
Declaring early to boost my resolve. 6/14 for today please Cathybird.5
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12/10 for today please cathybird. Thanks for adding me to the August list and for all your hard work keeping the totals 😀4
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7/10 please for Mo day. Thanks @cathybird for adding me to August’s list. I hope to do considerably more but will aim for 10 first.
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July AFD challenge 20257 days =
14 days =
21 days =
28 days =
Target reached =
Target beaten =
Entire month =
July targetsBlueJ94 25cathybird 27/21
Dark Sunday 8/14
doingitanyway 25/25
Dryjan 18dustydigger 24Jellybaby 28/TF
maggiem 7/10
maman 13/10
ManPants 31marahouti 25oceandreamer 24/24
PriceySOS 19/24
redofromstart 27/20
RobM99 28/29
satchmo1 25/25
Season of Mist 27/31
sukeyboo 12/10
tiddles 27/28
Watty1 22/20
WBF 6/14🌞 🌞 Newcomers welcome! 🌞 🌞3 -
August targetsBlueJ94 25cathybird 21Dark Sunday 14doingitanyway 25Dryjan 18dustydigger 24Jellybaby 28maggiem 10maman 10ManPants 31marahouti 25oceandreamer 24PriceySOS 24redofromstart 20RobM99 30satchmo1 25Season of Mist 31sukeyboo 10tiddles 20Watty1 20WBF 14🌞 🌞 Newcomers welcome! 🌞 🌞4
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13/10 AFDs please@cathybird5
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Target met with 25/25 for me today please.What would you get if all you got was what you were thankful for?6
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Snap!satchmo1 said:Target met with 25/25 for me today please.
If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them
Emergency fund 350/1000
Buffer fund 100/100
Debt Free (again) 25/07/20256
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