2018 Goals

Week 44 update:
Another slow week for the goals!:confused:
Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498
6/1 3709
6/30 4001
7/28 4373
8/31 4494
9/28 3407 (-1128 sold under-performing stock and transferred 1000 to start a ROTH)
10/27 3185 (stock market down a bit)
12/1
12/29


Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879
6/30 72,844
9/28 75,641
12/29

Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682
6/30 44.956
9/28 47,506
12/29

Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)
4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/6-5/10 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
5/14 - 5/18 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/21- 5/25 2 breakfast and 1 diner out
5/27 - 6/2 2 breakfast out and 2 dinner out
6/3 -6/9 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
6/10 - 6/16 3 breakfast out and 2 dinners out (1 breakfast and 1 dinner as went to a concert out of the area)
6/17 - 6/23 3 breakfast and 2 dinners out
6/24 - 6/30 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
7/1 - 7/7 1 breakfast, 1 lunch, and 1 dinner out (lunch and dinner out, an out of town friend in town)
7/8 - 7/14 2 breakfast out
7/15 - 7/21 1 lunch out
7/22 - 7/28 1 breakfast out
7/29 - 8/4 1 breakfast out
8/5 - 8/25 1 diner night before vacation and 1 diner the night we got back
8/26 - 9/1 2 dinners out
9/2 - 9/8 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
9/9 - 9/15 2 breakfast out
9/16 - 9/22 2 breakfast out
9/23 - 9/29 2 breakfast out
9/30 - 10/6 2 breakfast out
10/7 - 10/13 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
10/14 - 10/20 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (son's bday!)
10/21 - 10/27 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
10/28 - 11/3 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
5/6 - 5/10 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (forgot lunch on counter :( )
5/14 - 5/18 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (Drs. appointment 1 day)
5/21 - 5/25 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
5/28 - 6/1 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
6/3 - 6/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days
6/10 -6/15 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
6/18 - 6/22 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 2 days (had a group lunch out)
School is out for summer!!
9/3 - 9/7 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 4 days
9/10 - 9/14 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
9/17 - 9/21 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
9/24 - 9/28 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/1 - 10/5 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 4 days
10 /8 - 10/12 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/15 - 10/19 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/22 - 10/26 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/29 - 11/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100
5/12 50/ 1150
5/17 50/1200
5/25 100/1300 (50 was from a lawnmower that I sold)
6/2 50/1350
6/9 50/1400
6/16 150/1550 (extra 100 from a stipend at school)
6/23 50/1600
6/30 100/1700 (extra 50 from items I sold via Facebook)
7/7 50/1750
7/14 200/1950 (150 was from rolling up all the loose change in the house)
7/21 50/2000
7/28 50/2050
8/4 100/2150 (extra 50 this week because on vacation next week)
8/21 100/ 2250 (extra 50 this week because on vacation last week)
9/1 50/2300
9/8 50/2350
9/15 50/2450
9/22 50/2500
9/28 50/2550
10/6 50/2600
10/13 50/2650
10/20 50/2700
10/27 50/2750
11/3 50/2800

Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 6/30 (101 days) brought lunch to work almost everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 101 days * $5= 505 dollars !!
7/13 Dropped garbage cost from 33.17 to 24.95/month saving 8.22/month (98.64 savings/year)


Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work
7/5 1 partial notepad used up
7/21 1 partial notepad - used up
10/20 1 partial notepad - used up

Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)
5/6 - 5/12 5 items decluttered (495)
5/13 - 5/19 29 items decluttered (524)
5/20 - 5/25 11 items decluttered (535)
5/25 -6/1 167 items decluttered (702)
6/2 - 6/9 9 items decluttered (711)
6/10 - 6/16 43 items decluttered (754)
6/17 - 6/23 123 items declutter (877)
6/24 - 6/30 56 items decluttered (928)
7/1 - 7/7 367 items decluttered (1295)
7/8 - 7/14 46 items decluttered (1341)
7/15 - 7/21 8 items decluttered (1349)
7/22 - 7/28 62 items decluttered (1410)
7/29 - 8/4 10 items decluttered (1420)
8/5 - 8/25 6 items decluttered (1426)
8/26 - 9/1 60 items decluttered (1496)
9/2 - 9/8 32 items decluttered (1528)
9/9 - 9/15 10 items decluttered (1538)
9/16 - 9/22 47 items decluttered (1585)
9/23- 9/28 44 items decluttered (1626)
9/30 - 10/6 31 items decluttered (1657)
10/7 - 10/13 7 items decluttered (1664)
10/14 - 10/20 42 items decluttered (1706)
10/21 - 10/27 7 items decluttered (1713)
10/28 - 11/3 16 items decluttered (1739)

Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished
5/9 Book 14 finished
5/18 Book 15 finished
5/19 Book 16 finished
5/20 Book 17 finished
5/21 Book 18 finished
5/21 Book 19 finished
5/21 Book 20 finished

5/27 Book 21 finished
5/27 Book 22 finished
5/28 Book 23 finished
5/28 Book 24 finished
5/28 Book 25 finished
5/30 Book 26 finished
5/31 Book 27 finished
6/1 Book 28 finished
6/1 Book 29 finished
6/2 Book 30 finished
6/2 Book 31 finished
6/3 Book 32 finished (a bunch of these were TPB's that have been sitting on shelf for a long time. Read and then sell!!)
6/21 Book 33 finished
7/10 Book 34 finished
7/29 Book 35 finished
8/21 Book 36 finished
9/1 Book 37 finished
9/4 Book 38 finished
9/20 Book 39 finished
9/28 Book 40 finished
10/8 Book 41 finished
10/25 Book 42 finished
10/27 Book 43 finished


Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled
  • Clean/organize
  • Estimate
    • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
    • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
    • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls :(
    • Contractor #3 contacted but has not returned my phone call ?????
    • Contractor #3 called back and set up an appointment for Tuesday evening
    • Contractor #3 showed up and walked through the project, asked lots of questions, said he would have quote this Tuesday
    • Still waiting on quote from contractor 3
    • Contractor #3 got me the quote about 3000 over budget, guess we will do most work ourselves and contract out certain parts to save some money
  • Start Date
  • Project Finished

Fix items around the house
  • Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
  • Seal Laundry Room window casing (Done 7/23)
  • Seal Cellar Door (Done 9/22)
  • Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
  • Re-Build Flower Beds (Done 7/6)
  • Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
  • Install shelving in tool shed (Done 6/22)
  • Organize Tool Shed (Done 6/22)
  • Scrape Tool Shed (Done 7/9)
  • Prime Tool Shed (Done 7/10)
  • Paint Tool Shed (Done 7/11)
  • Fix Outside Phone Line (Done 5/18)
  • Fix leaking gutter
  • Add leaf catchers to gutters
  • Insulate cellar staircase
  • Re-Insulate cellar
  • Lay new sub-floor in Justin's’ room (Done 7/29)
  • Prime Justin’s room (Done 7/10)
  • Paint Justin's room (Done 7/11)
  • Replace cellar stairs
  • Fill/seal Driveway cracks (Done 9/18)
  • Fill curbing cracks/holes
 
Week 45 update:
A Pretty decent week for goals!!
Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498
6/1 3709
6/30 4001
7/28 4373
8/31 4494
9/28 3407 (-1128 sold under-performing stock and transferred 1000 to start a ROTH)
10/27 3185 (stock market down a bit)
12/1
12/29


Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879
6/30 72,844
9/28 75,641
12/29

Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682
6/30 44.956
9/28 47,506
12/29

Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)
4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/6-5/10 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
5/14 - 5/18 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/21- 5/25 2 breakfast and 1 diner out
5/27 - 6/2 2 breakfast out and 2 dinner out
6/3 -6/9 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
6/10 - 6/16 3 breakfast out and 2 dinners out (1 breakfast and 1 dinner as went to a concert out of the area)
6/17 - 6/23 3 breakfast and 2 dinners out
6/24 - 6/30 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
7/1 - 7/7 1 breakfast, 1 lunch, and 1 dinner out (lunch and dinner out, an out of town friend in town)
7/8 - 7/14 2 breakfast out
7/15 - 7/21 1 lunch out
7/22 - 7/28 1 breakfast out
7/29 - 8/4 1 breakfast out
8/5 - 8/25 1 diner night before vacation and 1 diner the night we got back
8/26 - 9/1 2 dinners out
9/2 - 9/8 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
9/9 - 9/15 2 breakfast out
9/16 - 9/22 2 breakfast out
9/23 - 9/29 2 breakfast out
9/30 - 10/6 2 breakfast out
10/7 - 10/13 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
10/14 - 10/20 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (son's bday!)
10/21 - 10/27 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
10/28 - 11/3 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
11/4- 11/10 2 breakfast out

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
5/6 - 5/10 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (forgot lunch on counter :( )
5/14 - 5/18 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (Drs. appointment 1 day)
5/21 - 5/25 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
5/28 - 6/1 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
6/3 - 6/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days
6/10 -6/15 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
6/18 - 6/22 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 2 days (had a group lunch out)
School is out for summer!!
9/3 - 9/7 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 4 days
9/10 - 9/14 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
9/17 - 9/21 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
9/24 - 9/28 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/1 - 10/5 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 4 days
10 /8 - 10/12 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/15 - 10/19 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/22 - 10/26 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/29 - 11/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
11/5 - 11/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100
5/12 50/ 1150
5/17 50/1200
5/25 100/1300 (50 was from a lawnmower that I sold)
6/2 50/1350
6/9 50/1400
6/16 150/1550 (extra 100 from a stipend at school)
6/23 50/1600
6/30 100/1700 (extra 50 from items I sold via Facebook)
7/7 50/1750
7/14 200/1950 (150 was from rolling up all the loose change in the house)
7/21 50/2000
7/28 50/2050
8/4 100/2150 (extra 50 this week because on vacation next week)
8/21 100/ 2250 (extra 50 this week because on vacation last week)
9/1 50/2300
9/8 50/2350
9/15 50/2450
9/22 50/2500
9/28 50/2550
10/6 50/2600
10/13 50/2650
10/20 50/2700
10/27 50/2750
11/3 50/2800
11/10 50/2850

Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 6/30 (101 days) brought lunch to work almost everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 101 days * $5= 505 dollars !!
7/13 Dropped garbage cost from 33.17 to 24.95/month saving 8.22/month (98.64 savings/year)


Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work
7/5 1 partial notepad used up
7/21 1 partial notepad - used up
10/20 1 partial notepad - used up
11/4 sorted through the bulk of office supplies and donated approx 149 items

Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)
5/6 - 5/12 5 items decluttered (495)
5/13 - 5/19 29 items decluttered (524)
5/20 - 5/25 11 items decluttered (535)
5/25 -6/1 167 items decluttered (702)
6/2 - 6/9 9 items decluttered (711)
6/10 - 6/16 43 items decluttered (754)
6/17 - 6/23 123 items declutter (877)
6/24 - 6/30 56 items decluttered (928)
7/1 - 7/7 367 items decluttered (1295)
7/8 - 7/14 46 items decluttered (1341)
7/15 - 7/21 8 items decluttered (1349)
7/22 - 7/28 62 items decluttered (1410)
7/29 - 8/4 10 items decluttered (1420)
8/5 - 8/25 6 items decluttered (1426)
8/26 - 9/1 60 items decluttered (1496)
9/2 - 9/8 32 items decluttered (1528)
9/9 - 9/15 10 items decluttered (1538)
9/16 - 9/22 47 items decluttered (1585)
9/23- 9/28 44 items decluttered (1626)
9/30 - 10/6 31 items decluttered (1657)
10/7 - 10/13 7 items decluttered (1664)
10/14 - 10/20 42 items decluttered (1706)
10/21 - 10/27 7 items decluttered (1713)
10/28 - 11/3 16 items decluttered (1739)
11/4 - 11/10 233 items decluttered(1972)

Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished
5/9 Book 14 finished
5/18 Book 15 finished
5/19 Book 16 finished
5/20 Book 17 finished
5/21 Book 18 finished
5/21 Book 19 finished
5/21 Book 20 finished

5/27 Book 21 finished
5/27 Book 22 finished
5/28 Book 23 finished
5/28 Book 24 finished
5/28 Book 25 finished
5/30 Book 26 finished
5/31 Book 27 finished
6/1 Book 28 finished
6/1 Book 29 finished
6/2 Book 30 finished
6/2 Book 31 finished
6/3 Book 32 finished (a bunch of these were TPB's that have been sitting on shelf for a long time. Read and then sell!!)
6/21 Book 33 finished
7/10 Book 34 finished
7/29 Book 35 finished
8/21 Book 36 finished
9/1 Book 37 finished
9/4 Book 38 finished
9/20 Book 39 finished
9/28 Book 40 finished
10/8 Book 41 finished
10/25 Book 42 finished
10/27 Book 43 finished
11/7 Book 44 finished
11/8 Book 45 finished
11/9 Book 46 finished


Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled
  • Clean/organize
  • Estimate
    • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
    • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
    • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls :(
    • Contractor #3 contacted but has not returned my phone call ?????
    • Contractor #3 called back and set up an appointment for Tuesday evening
    • Contractor #3 showed up and walked through the project, asked lots of questions, said he would have quote this Tuesday
    • Still waiting on quote from contractor 3
    • Contractor #3 got me the quote about 3000 over budget, guess we will do most work ourselves and contract out certain parts to save some money
  • Start Date
  • Project Finished

Fix items around the house
  • Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
  • Seal Laundry Room window casing (Done 7/23)
  • Seal Cellar Door (Done 9/22)
  • Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
  • Re-Build Flower Beds (Done 7/6)
  • Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
  • Install shelving in tool shed (Done 6/22)
  • Organize Tool Shed (Done 6/22)
  • Scrape Tool Shed (Done 7/9)
  • Prime Tool Shed (Done 7/10)
  • Paint Tool Shed (Done 7/11)
  • Fix Outside Phone Line (Done 5/18)
  • Fix leaking gutter
  • Add leaf catchers to gutters
  • Insulate cellar staircase
  • Re-Insulate cellar
  • Lay new sub-floor in Justin's’ room (Done 7/29)
  • Prime Justin’s room (Done 7/10)
  • Paint Justin's room (Done 7/11)
  • Replace cellar stairs
  • Fill/seal Driveway cracks (Done 9/18)
  • Fill curbing cracks/holes
 
Week 46 update:

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498
6/1 3709
6/30 4001
7/28 4373
8/31 4494
9/28 3407 (-1128 sold under-performing stock and transferred 1000 to start a ROTH)
10/27 3185 (stock market down a bit)
12/1
12/29


Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879
6/30 72,844
9/28 75,641
12/29

Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682
6/30 44.956
9/28 47,506
12/29

Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)
4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/6-5/10 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
5/14 - 5/18 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/21- 5/25 2 breakfast and 1 diner out
5/27 - 6/2 2 breakfast out and 2 dinner out
6/3 -6/9 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
6/10 - 6/16 3 breakfast out and 2 dinners out (1 breakfast and 1 dinner as went to a concert out of the area)
6/17 - 6/23 3 breakfast and 2 dinners out
6/24 - 6/30 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
7/1 - 7/7 1 breakfast, 1 lunch, and 1 dinner out (lunch and dinner out, an out of town friend in town)
7/8 - 7/14 2 breakfast out
7/15 - 7/21 1 lunch out
7/22 - 7/28 1 breakfast out
7/29 - 8/4 1 breakfast out
8/5 - 8/25 1 diner night before vacation and 1 diner the night we got back
8/26 - 9/1 2 dinners out
9/2 - 9/8 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
9/9 - 9/15 2 breakfast out
9/16 - 9/22 2 breakfast out
9/23 - 9/29 2 breakfast out
9/30 - 10/6 2 breakfast out
10/7 - 10/13 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
10/14 - 10/20 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (son's bday!)
10/21 - 10/27 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
10/28 - 11/3 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
11/4- 11/10 2 breakfast out
11/11 - 11/17 2 breakfast out

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
5/6 - 5/10 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (forgot lunch on counter :( )
5/14 - 5/18 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (Drs. appointment 1 day)
5/21 - 5/25 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
5/28 - 6/1 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
6/3 - 6/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days
6/10 -6/15 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
6/18 - 6/22 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 2 days (had a group lunch out)
School is out for summer!!
9/3 - 9/7 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 4 days
9/10 - 9/14 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
9/17 - 9/21 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
9/24 - 9/28 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/1 - 10/5 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 4 days
10 /8 - 10/12 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/15 - 10/19 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/22 - 10/26 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/29 - 11/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
11/5 - 11/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
11/12 - 11/6 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 3 days

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100
5/12 50/ 1150
5/17 50/1200
5/25 100/1300 (50 was from a lawnmower that I sold)
6/2 50/1350
6/9 50/1400
6/16 150/1550 (extra 100 from a stipend at school)
6/23 50/1600
6/30 100/1700 (extra 50 from items I sold via Facebook)
7/7 50/1750
7/14 200/1950 (150 was from rolling up all the loose change in the house)
7/21 50/2000
7/28 50/2050
8/4 100/2150 (extra 50 this week because on vacation next week)
8/21 100/ 2250 (extra 50 this week because on vacation last week)
9/1 50/2300
9/8 50/2350
9/15 50/2450
9/22 50/2500
9/28 50/2550
10/6 50/2600
10/13 50/2650
10/20 50/2700
10/27 50/2750
11/3 50/2800
11/10 50/2850
11/17 50/2900

Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 6/30 (101 days) brought lunch to work almost everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 101 days * $5= 505 dollars !!
7/13 Dropped garbage cost from 33.17 to 24.95/month saving 8.22/month (98.64 savings/year)


Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work
7/5 1 partial notepad used up
7/21 1 partial notepad - used up
10/20 1 partial notepad - used up
11/4 sorted through the bulk of office supplies and donated approx 149 items

Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)
5/6 - 5/12 5 items decluttered (495)
5/13 - 5/19 29 items decluttered (524)
5/20 - 5/25 11 items decluttered (535)
5/25 -6/1 167 items decluttered (702)
6/2 - 6/9 9 items decluttered (711)
6/10 - 6/16 43 items decluttered (754)
6/17 - 6/23 123 items declutter (877)
6/24 - 6/30 56 items decluttered (928)
7/1 - 7/7 367 items decluttered (1295)
7/8 - 7/14 46 items decluttered (1341)
7/15 - 7/21 8 items decluttered (1349)
7/22 - 7/28 62 items decluttered (1410)
7/29 - 8/4 10 items decluttered (1420)
8/5 - 8/25 6 items decluttered (1426)
8/26 - 9/1 60 items decluttered (1496)
9/2 - 9/8 32 items decluttered (1528)
9/9 - 9/15 10 items decluttered (1538)
9/16 - 9/22 47 items decluttered (1585)
9/23- 9/28 44 items decluttered (1626)
9/30 - 10/6 31 items decluttered (1657)
10/7 - 10/13 7 items decluttered (1664)
10/14 - 10/20 42 items decluttered (1706)
10/21 - 10/27 7 items decluttered (1713)
10/28 - 11/3 16 items decluttered (1739)
11/4 - 11/10 233 items decluttered(1972)
11/11 - 11/17 124 items decluttered (2096)

Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished
5/9 Book 14 finished
5/18 Book 15 finished
5/19 Book 16 finished
5/20 Book 17 finished
5/21 Book 18 finished
5/21 Book 19 finished
5/21 Book 20 finished

5/27 Book 21 finished
5/27 Book 22 finished
5/28 Book 23 finished
5/28 Book 24 finished
5/28 Book 25 finished
5/30 Book 26 finished
5/31 Book 27 finished
6/1 Book 28 finished
6/1 Book 29 finished
6/2 Book 30 finished
6/2 Book 31 finished
6/3 Book 32 finished (a bunch of these were TPB's that have been sitting on shelf for a long time. Read and then sell!!)
6/21 Book 33 finished
7/10 Book 34 finished
7/29 Book 35 finished
8/21 Book 36 finished
9/1 Book 37 finished
9/4 Book 38 finished
9/20 Book 39 finished
9/28 Book 40 finished
10/8 Book 41 finished
10/25 Book 42 finished
10/27 Book 43 finished
11/7 Book 44 finished
11/8 Book 45 finished
11/9 Book 46 finished

Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled
  • Clean/organize
  • Estimate
    • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
    • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
    • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls :(
    • Contractor #3 contacted but has not returned my phone call ?????
    • Contractor #3 called back and set up an appointment for Tuesday evening
    • Contractor #3 showed up and walked through the project, asked lots of questions, said he would have quote this Tuesday
    • Still waiting on quote from contractor 3
    • Contractor #3 got me the quote about 3000 over budget, guess we will do most work ourselves and contract out certain parts to save some money
  • Start Date
  • Project Finished

Fix items around the house
  • Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
  • Seal Laundry Room window casing (Done 7/23)
  • Seal Cellar Door (Done 9/22)
  • Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
  • Re-Build Flower Beds (Done 7/6)
  • Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
  • Install shelving in tool shed (Done 6/22)
  • Organize Tool Shed (Done 6/22)
  • Scrape Tool Shed (Done 7/9)
  • Prime Tool Shed (Done 7/10)
  • Paint Tool Shed (Done 7/11)
  • Fix Outside Phone Line (Done 5/18)
  • Fix leaking gutter
  • Add leaf catchers to gutters
  • Insulate cellar staircase
  • Re-Insulate cellar
  • Lay new sub-floor in Justin's’ room (Done 7/29)
  • Prime Justin’s room (Done 7/10)
  • Paint Justin's room (Done 7/11)
  • Replace cellar stairs
  • Fill/seal Driveway cracks (Done 9/18)
  • Fill curbing cracks/holes
 
Week 47 update:

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498
6/1 3709
6/30 4001
7/28 4373
8/31 4494
9/28 3407 (-1128 sold under-performing stock and transferred 1000 to start a ROTH)
10/27 3185 (stock market down a bit)
12/1
12/29


Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879
6/30 72,844
9/28 75,641
12/29

Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682
6/30 44.956
9/28 47,506
12/29

Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)
4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/6-5/10 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
5/14 - 5/18 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/21- 5/25 2 breakfast and 1 diner out
5/27 - 6/2 2 breakfast out and 2 dinner out
6/3 -6/9 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
6/10 - 6/16 3 breakfast out and 2 dinners out (1 breakfast and 1 dinner as went to a concert out of the area)
6/17 - 6/23 3 breakfast and 2 dinners out
6/24 - 6/30 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
7/1 - 7/7 1 breakfast, 1 lunch, and 1 dinner out (lunch and dinner out, an out of town friend in town)
7/8 - 7/14 2 breakfast out
7/15 - 7/21 1 lunch out
7/22 - 7/28 1 breakfast out
7/29 - 8/4 1 breakfast out
8/5 - 8/25 1 diner night before vacation and 1 diner the night we got back
8/26 - 9/1 2 dinners out
9/2 - 9/8 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
9/9 - 9/15 2 breakfast out
9/16 - 9/22 2 breakfast out
9/23 - 9/29 2 breakfast out
9/30 - 10/6 2 breakfast out
10/7 - 10/13 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
10/14 - 10/20 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (son's bday!)
10/21 - 10/27 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
10/28 - 11/3 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
11/4- 11/10 2 breakfast out
11/11 - 11/17 2 breakfast out
11/18 - 11/24 1 breakfast and 1 lunch out

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
5/6 - 5/10 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (forgot lunch on counter :( )
5/14 - 5/18 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (Drs. appointment 1 day)
5/21 - 5/25 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
5/28 - 6/1 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
6/3 - 6/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days
6/10 -6/15 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
6/18 - 6/22 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 2 days (had a group lunch out)
School is out for summer!!
9/3 - 9/7 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 4 days
9/10 - 9/14 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
9/17 - 9/21 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
9/24 - 9/28 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/1 - 10/5 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 4 days
10 /8 - 10/12 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/15 - 10/19 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/22 - 10/26 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/29 - 11/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
11/5 - 11/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
11/12 - 11/6 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 3 days
11/19 - 11/23 Out of 1 school day brought lunch 1 day (Thanksgiving break)

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100
5/12 50/ 1150
5/17 50/1200
5/25 100/1300 (50 was from a lawnmower that I sold)
6/2 50/1350
6/9 50/1400
6/16 150/1550 (extra 100 from a stipend at school)
6/23 50/1600
6/30 100/1700 (extra 50 from items I sold via Facebook)
7/7 50/1750
7/14 200/1950 (150 was from rolling up all the loose change in the house)
7/21 50/2000
7/28 50/2050
8/4 100/2150 (extra 50 this week because on vacation next week)
8/21 100/ 2250 (extra 50 this week because on vacation last week)
9/1 50/2300
9/8 50/2350
9/15 50/2450
9/22 50/2500
9/28 50/2550
10/6 50/2600
10/13 50/2650
10/20 50/2700
10/27 50/2750
11/3 50/2800
11/10 50/2850
11/17 50/2900
11/24 50/2950

Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 6/30 (101 days) brought lunch to work almost everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 101 days * $5= 505 dollars !!
7/13 Dropped garbage cost from 33.17 to 24.95/month saving 8.22/month (98.64 savings/year)


Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work
7/5 1 partial notepad used up
7/21 1 partial notepad - used up
10/20 1 partial notepad - used up
11/4 sorted through the bulk of office supplies and donated approx 149 items

Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)
5/6 - 5/12 5 items decluttered (495)
5/13 - 5/19 29 items decluttered (524)
5/20 - 5/25 11 items decluttered (535)
5/25 -6/1 167 items decluttered (702)
6/2 - 6/9 9 items decluttered (711)
6/10 - 6/16 43 items decluttered (754)
6/17 - 6/23 123 items declutter (877)
6/24 - 6/30 56 items decluttered (928)
7/1 - 7/7 367 items decluttered (1295)
7/8 - 7/14 46 items decluttered (1341)
7/15 - 7/21 8 items decluttered (1349)
7/22 - 7/28 62 items decluttered (1410)
7/29 - 8/4 10 items decluttered (1420)
8/5 - 8/25 6 items decluttered (1426)
8/26 - 9/1 60 items decluttered (1496)
9/2 - 9/8 32 items decluttered (1528)
9/9 - 9/15 10 items decluttered (1538)
9/16 - 9/22 47 items decluttered (1585)
9/23- 9/28 44 items decluttered (1626)
9/30 - 10/6 31 items decluttered (1657)
10/7 - 10/13 7 items decluttered (1664)
10/14 - 10/20 42 items decluttered (1706)
10/21 - 10/27 7 items decluttered (1713)
10/28 - 11/3 16 items decluttered (1739)
11/4 - 11/10 233 items decluttered(1972)
11/11 - 11/17 124 items decluttered (2096)
11/18 - 11/24 34 items decluttered (2130)

Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished
5/9 Book 14 finished
5/18 Book 15 finished
5/19 Book 16 finished
5/20 Book 17 finished
5/21 Book 18 finished
5/21 Book 19 finished
5/21 Book 20 finished

5/27 Book 21 finished
5/27 Book 22 finished
5/28 Book 23 finished
5/28 Book 24 finished
5/28 Book 25 finished
5/30 Book 26 finished
5/31 Book 27 finished
6/1 Book 28 finished
6/1 Book 29 finished
6/2 Book 30 finished
6/2 Book 31 finished
6/3 Book 32 finished (a bunch of these were TPB's that have been sitting on shelf for a long time. Read and then sell!!)
6/21 Book 33 finished
7/10 Book 34 finished
7/29 Book 35 finished
8/21 Book 36 finished
9/1 Book 37 finished
9/4 Book 38 finished
9/20 Book 39 finished
9/28 Book 40 finished
10/8 Book 41 finished
10/25 Book 42 finished
10/27 Book 43 finished
11/7 Book 44 finished
11/8 Book 45 finished
11/9 Book 46 finished
11/19 Book 47 finished
11/23 Book 48 finished




Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled
  • Clean/organize
  • Estimate
    • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
    • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
    • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls :(
    • Contractor #3 contacted but has not returned my phone call ?????
    • Contractor #3 called back and set up an appointment for Tuesday evening
    • Contractor #3 showed up and walked through the project, asked lots of questions, said he would have quote this Tuesday
    • Still waiting on quote from contractor 3
    • Contractor #3 got me the quote about 3000 over budget, guess we will do most work ourselves and contract out certain parts to save some money
  • Start Date
  • Project Finished

Fix items around the house
  • Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
  • Seal Laundry Room window casing (Done 7/23)
  • Seal Cellar Door (Done 9/22)
  • Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
  • Re-Build Flower Beds (Done 7/6)
  • Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
  • Install shelving in tool shed (Done 6/22)
  • Organize Tool Shed (Done 6/22)
  • Scrape Tool Shed (Done 7/9)
  • Prime Tool Shed (Done 7/10)
  • Paint Tool Shed (Done 7/11)
  • Fix Outside Phone Line (Done 5/18)
  • Fix leaking gutter
  • Add leaf catchers to gutters
  • Insulate cellar staircase
  • Re-Insulate cellar
  • Lay new sub-floor in Justin's’ room (Done 7/29)
  • Prime Justin’s room (Done 7/10)
  • Paint Justin's room (Done 7/11)
  • Replace cellar stairs
  • Fill/seal Driveway cracks (Done 9/18)
  • Fill curbing cracks/holes
 


Week 48 update:

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498
6/1 3709
6/30 4001
7/28 4373
8/31 4494
9/28 3407 (-1128 sold under-performing stock and transferred 1000 to start a ROTH)
10/27 3185 (stock market down a bit)
12/1 912 (sold several stock positions)
12/29
Decided this fall it was too much work to keep track of individual stocks, so started to liquidate this goal.

Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879
6/30 72,844
9/28 75,641
12/29

Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682
6/30 44.956
9/28 47,506
12/29

Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)
4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/6-5/10 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
5/14 - 5/18 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/21- 5/25 2 breakfast and 1 diner out
5/27 - 6/2 2 breakfast out and 2 dinner out
6/3 -6/9 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
6/10 - 6/16 3 breakfast out and 2 dinners out (1 breakfast and 1 dinner as went to a concert out of the area)
6/17 - 6/23 3 breakfast and 2 dinners out
6/24 - 6/30 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
7/1 - 7/7 1 breakfast, 1 lunch, and 1 dinner out (lunch and dinner out, an out of town friend in town)
7/8 - 7/14 2 breakfast out
7/15 - 7/21 1 lunch out
7/22 - 7/28 1 breakfast out
7/29 - 8/4 1 breakfast out
8/5 - 8/25 1 diner night before vacation and 1 diner the night we got back
8/26 - 9/1 2 dinners out
9/2 - 9/8 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
9/9 - 9/15 2 breakfast out
9/16 - 9/22 2 breakfast out
9/23 - 9/29 2 breakfast out
9/30 - 10/6 2 breakfast out
10/7 - 10/13 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
10/14 - 10/20 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (son's bday!)
10/21 - 10/27 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
10/28 - 11/3 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
11/4- 11/10 2 breakfast out
11/11 - 11/17 2 breakfast out
11/18 - 11/24 1 breakfast and 1 lunch out
11/26 - 11/30 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
5/6 - 5/10 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (forgot lunch on counter :( )
5/14 - 5/18 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (Drs. appointment 1 day)
5/21 - 5/25 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
5/28 - 6/1 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
6/3 - 6/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days
6/10 -6/15 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
6/18 - 6/22 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 2 days (had a group lunch out)
School is out for summer!!
9/3 - 9/7 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 4 days
9/10 - 9/14 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
9/17 - 9/21 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
9/24 - 9/28 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/1 - 10/5 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 4 days
10 /8 - 10/12 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/15 - 10/19 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/22 - 10/26 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/29 - 11/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
11/5 - 11/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
11/12 - 11/6 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 3 days
11/19 - 11/23 Out of 1 school day brought lunch 1 day (Thanksgiving break)
11/26 - 11/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100
5/12 50/ 1150
5/17 50/1200
5/25 100/1300 (50 was from a lawnmower that I sold)
6/2 50/1350
6/9 50/1400
6/16 150/1550 (extra 100 from a stipend at school)
6/23 50/1600
6/30 100/1700 (extra 50 from items I sold via Facebook)
7/7 50/1750
7/14 200/1950 (150 was from rolling up all the loose change in the house)
7/21 50/2000
7/28 50/2050
8/4 100/2150 (extra 50 this week because on vacation next week)
8/21 100/ 2250 (extra 50 this week because on vacation last week)
9/1 50/2300
9/8 50/2350
9/15 50/2450
9/22 50/2500
9/28 50/2550
10/6 50/2600
10/13 50/2650
10/20 50/2700
10/27 50/2750
11/3 50/2800
11/10 50/2850
11/17 50/2900
11/24 50/2950
12/1 50/3000

Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 6/30 (101 days) brought lunch to work almost everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 101 days * $5= 505 dollars !!
7/13 Dropped garbage cost from 33.17 to 24.95/month saving 8.22/month (98.64 savings/year)


Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work
7/5 1 partial notepad used up
7/21 1 partial notepad - used up
10/20 1 partial notepad - used up
11/4 sorted through the bulk of office supplies and donated approx 149 items

Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)
5/6 - 5/12 5 items decluttered (495)
5/13 - 5/19 29 items decluttered (524)
5/20 - 5/25 11 items decluttered (535)
5/25 -6/1 167 items decluttered (702)
6/2 - 6/9 9 items decluttered (711)
6/10 - 6/16 43 items decluttered (754)
6/17 - 6/23 123 items declutter (877)
6/24 - 6/30 56 items decluttered (928)
7/1 - 7/7 367 items decluttered (1295)
7/8 - 7/14 46 items decluttered (1341)
7/15 - 7/21 8 items decluttered (1349)
7/22 - 7/28 62 items decluttered (1410)
7/29 - 8/4 10 items decluttered (1420)
8/5 - 8/25 6 items decluttered (1426)
8/26 - 9/1 60 items decluttered (1496)
9/2 - 9/8 32 items decluttered (1528)
9/9 - 9/15 10 items decluttered (1538)
9/16 - 9/22 47 items decluttered (1585)
9/23- 9/28 44 items decluttered (1626)
9/30 - 10/6 31 items decluttered (1657)
10/7 - 10/13 7 items decluttered (1664)
10/14 - 10/20 42 items decluttered (1706)
10/21 - 10/27 7 items decluttered (1713)
10/28 - 11/3 16 items decluttered (1739)
11/4 - 11/10 233 items decluttered(1972)
11/11 - 11/17 124 items decluttered (2096)
11/18 - 11/24 34 items decluttered (2130)
11/25 - 12/1 27 items decluttered (2157)

Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished
5/9 Book 14 finished
5/18 Book 15 finished
5/19 Book 16 finished
5/20 Book 17 finished
5/21 Book 18 finished
5/21 Book 19 finished
5/21 Book 20 finished

5/27 Book 21 finished
5/27 Book 22 finished
5/28 Book 23 finished
5/28 Book 24 finished
5/28 Book 25 finished
5/30 Book 26 finished
5/31 Book 27 finished
6/1 Book 28 finished
6/1 Book 29 finished
6/2 Book 30 finished
6/2 Book 31 finished
6/3 Book 32 finished (a bunch of these were TPB's that have been sitting on shelf for a long time. Read and then sell!!)
6/21 Book 33 finished
7/10 Book 34 finished
7/29 Book 35 finished
8/21 Book 36 finished
9/1 Book 37 finished
9/4 Book 38 finished
9/20 Book 39 finished
9/28 Book 40 finished
10/8 Book 41 finished
10/25 Book 42 finished
10/27 Book 43 finished
11/7 Book 44 finished
11/8 Book 45 finished
11/9 Book 46 finished
11/19 Book 47 finished
11/23 Book 48 finished



Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled
  • Clean/organize
  • Estimate
    • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
    • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
    • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls :(
    • Contractor #3 contacted but has not returned my phone call ?????
    • Contractor #3 called back and set up an appointment for Tuesday evening
    • Contractor #3 showed up and walked through the project, asked lots of questions, said he would have quote this Tuesday
    • Still waiting on quote from contractor 3
    • Contractor #3 got me the quote about 3000 over budget, guess we will do most work ourselves and contract out certain parts to save some money
  • Start Date
  • Project Finished

Fix items around the house
  • Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
  • Seal Laundry Room window casing (Done 7/23)
  • Seal Cellar Door (Done 9/22)
  • Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
  • Re-Build Flower Beds (Done 7/6)
  • Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
  • Install shelving in tool shed (Done 6/22)
  • Organize Tool Shed (Done 6/22)
  • Scrape Tool Shed (Done 7/9)
  • Prime Tool Shed (Done 7/10)
  • Paint Tool Shed (Done 7/11)
  • Fix Outside Phone Line (Done 5/18)
  • Fix leaking gutter
  • Add leaf catchers to gutters
  • Insulate cellar staircase
  • Re-Insulate cellar
  • Lay new sub-floor in Justin's’ room (Done 7/29)
  • Prime Justin’s room (Done 7/10)
  • Paint Justin's room (Done 7/11)
  • Replace cellar stairs
  • Fill/seal Driveway cracks (Done 9/18)
  • Fill curbing cracks/holes
 
Week 49 update: A bit of a slow week :(

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498
6/1 3709
6/30 4001
7/28 4373
8/31 4494
9/28 3407 (-1128 sold under-performing stock and transferred 1000 to start a ROTH)
10/27 3185 (stock market down a bit)
12/1 912 (sold several stock positions)
12/29
Decided this fall it was too much work to keep track of individual stocks, so started to liquidate this goal.

Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879
6/30 72,844
9/28 75,641
12/29

Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682
6/30 44.956
9/28 47,506
12/29

Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)
4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/6-5/10 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
5/14 - 5/18 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/21- 5/25 2 breakfast and 1 diner out
5/27 - 6/2 2 breakfast out and 2 dinner out
6/3 -6/9 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
6/10 - 6/16 3 breakfast out and 2 dinners out (1 breakfast and 1 dinner as went to a concert out of the area)
6/17 - 6/23 3 breakfast and 2 dinners out
6/24 - 6/30 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
7/1 - 7/7 1 breakfast, 1 lunch, and 1 dinner out (lunch and dinner out, an out of town friend in town)
7/8 - 7/14 2 breakfast out
7/15 - 7/21 1 lunch out
7/22 - 7/28 1 breakfast out
7/29 - 8/4 1 breakfast out
8/5 - 8/25 1 diner night before vacation and 1 diner the night we got back
8/26 - 9/1 2 dinners out
9/2 - 9/8 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
9/9 - 9/15 2 breakfast out
9/16 - 9/22 2 breakfast out
9/23 - 9/29 2 breakfast out
9/30 - 10/6 2 breakfast out
10/7 - 10/13 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
10/14 - 10/20 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (son's bday!)
10/21 - 10/27 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
10/28 - 11/3 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
11/4- 11/10 2 breakfast out
11/11 - 11/17 2 breakfast out
11/18 - 11/24 1 breakfast and 1 lunch out
11/26 - 11/30 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
12/2 - 12/8 2 breakfast out

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
5/6 - 5/10 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (forgot lunch on counter :( )
5/14 - 5/18 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (Drs. appointment 1 day)
5/21 - 5/25 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
5/28 - 6/1 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
6/3 - 6/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days
6/10 -6/15 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
6/18 - 6/22 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 2 days (had a group lunch out)
School is out for summer!!
9/3 - 9/7 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 4 days
9/10 - 9/14 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
9/17 - 9/21 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
9/24 - 9/28 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/1 - 10/5 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 4 days
10 /8 - 10/12 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/15 - 10/19 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/22 - 10/26 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/29 - 11/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
11/5 - 11/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
11/12 - 11/6 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 3 days
11/19 - 11/23 Out of 1 school day brought lunch 1 day (Thanksgiving break)
11/26 - 11/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
12/3 - 12/7 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100
5/12 50/ 1150
5/17 50/1200
5/25 100/1300 (50 was from a lawnmower that I sold)
6/2 50/1350
6/9 50/1400
6/16 150/1550 (extra 100 from a stipend at school)
6/23 50/1600
6/30 100/1700 (extra 50 from items I sold via Facebook)
7/7 50/1750
7/14 200/1950 (150 was from rolling up all the loose change in the house)
7/21 50/2000
7/28 50/2050
8/4 100/2150 (extra 50 this week because on vacation next week)
8/21 100/ 2250 (extra 50 this week because on vacation last week)
9/1 50/2300
9/8 50/2350
9/15 50/2450
9/22 50/2500
9/28 50/2550
10/6 50/2600
10/13 50/2650
10/20 50/2700
10/27 50/2750
11/3 50/2800
11/10 50/2850
11/17 50/2900
11/24 50/2950
12/1 50/3000
12/8 150/3150 (extra 100 from a school stipend)

Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 6/30 (101 days) brought lunch to work almost everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 101 days * $5= 505 dollars !!
7/13 Dropped garbage cost from 33.17 to 24.95/month saving 8.22/month (98.64 savings/year)


Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work
7/5 1 partial notepad used up
7/21 1 partial notepad - used up
10/20 1 partial notepad - used up
11/4 sorted through the bulk of office supplies and donated approx 149 items

Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)
5/6 - 5/12 5 items decluttered (495)
5/13 - 5/19 29 items decluttered (524)
5/20 - 5/25 11 items decluttered (535)
5/25 -6/1 167 items decluttered (702)
6/2 - 6/9 9 items decluttered (711)
6/10 - 6/16 43 items decluttered (754)
6/17 - 6/23 123 items declutter (877)
6/24 - 6/30 56 items decluttered (928)
7/1 - 7/7 367 items decluttered (1295)
7/8 - 7/14 46 items decluttered (1341)
7/15 - 7/21 8 items decluttered (1349)
7/22 - 7/28 62 items decluttered (1410)
7/29 - 8/4 10 items decluttered (1420)
8/5 - 8/25 6 items decluttered (1426)
8/26 - 9/1 60 items decluttered (1496)
9/2 - 9/8 32 items decluttered (1528)
9/9 - 9/15 10 items decluttered (1538)
9/16 - 9/22 47 items decluttered (1585)
9/23- 9/28 44 items decluttered (1626)
9/30 - 10/6 31 items decluttered (1657)
10/7 - 10/13 7 items decluttered (1664)
10/14 - 10/20 42 items decluttered (1706)
10/21 - 10/27 7 items decluttered (1713)
10/28 - 11/3 16 items decluttered (1739)
11/4 - 11/10 233 items decluttered(1972)
11/11 - 11/17 124 items decluttered (2096)
11/18 - 11/24 34 items decluttered (2130)
11/25 - 12/1 27 items decluttered (2157)
12/2 - 12/8 3 items decluttered (2160)

Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished
5/9 Book 14 finished
5/18 Book 15 finished
5/19 Book 16 finished
5/20 Book 17 finished
5/21 Book 18 finished
5/21 Book 19 finished
5/21 Book 20 finished

5/27 Book 21 finished
5/27 Book 22 finished
5/28 Book 23 finished
5/28 Book 24 finished
5/28 Book 25 finished
5/30 Book 26 finished
5/31 Book 27 finished
6/1 Book 28 finished
6/1 Book 29 finished
6/2 Book 30 finished
6/2 Book 31 finished
6/3 Book 32 finished (a bunch of these were TPB's that have been sitting on shelf for a long time. Read and then sell!!)
6/21 Book 33 finished
7/10 Book 34 finished
7/29 Book 35 finished
8/21 Book 36 finished
9/1 Book 37 finished
9/4 Book 38 finished
9/20 Book 39 finished
9/28 Book 40 finished
10/8 Book 41 finished
10/25 Book 42 finished
10/27 Book 43 finished
11/7 Book 44 finished
11/8 Book 45 finished
11/9 Book 46 finished
11/19 Book 47 finished
11/23 Book 48 finished



Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled
  • Clean/organize
  • Estimate
    • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
    • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
    • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls :(
    • Contractor #3 contacted but has not returned my phone call ?????
    • Contractor #3 called back and set up an appointment for Tuesday evening
    • Contractor #3 showed up and walked through the project, asked lots of questions, said he would have quote this Tuesday
    • Still waiting on quote from contractor 3
    • Contractor #3 got me the quote about 3000 over budget, guess we will do most work ourselves and contract out certain parts to save some money
  • Start Date
  • Project Finished

Fix items around the house
  • Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
  • Seal Laundry Room window casing (Done 7/23)
  • Seal Cellar Door (Done 9/22)
  • Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
  • Re-Build Flower Beds (Done 7/6)
  • Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
  • Install shelving in tool shed (Done 6/22)
  • Organize Tool Shed (Done 6/22)
  • Scrape Tool Shed (Done 7/9)
  • Prime Tool Shed (Done 7/10)
  • Paint Tool Shed (Done 7/11)
  • Fix Outside Phone Line (Done 5/18)
  • Fix leaking gutter
  • Add leaf catchers to gutters
  • Insulate cellar staircase
  • Re-Insulate cellar
  • Lay new sub-floor in Justin's’ room (Done 7/29)
  • Prime Justin’s room (Done 7/10)
  • Paint Justin's room (Done 7/11)
  • Replace cellar stairs
  • Fill/seal Driveway cracks (Done 9/18)
  • Fill curbing cracks/holes
 
Week 50 update: The countdown has begun!!

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498
6/1 3709
6/30 4001
7/28 4373
8/31 4494
9/28 3407 (-1128 sold under-performing stock and transferred 1000 to start a ROTH)
10/27 3185 (stock market down a bit)
12/1 912 (sold several stock positions)
12/15 0 (sold all of my DRIP stocks)
Decided this fall it was too much work to keep track of individual stocks, so started to liquidate this goal.


Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879
6/30 72,844
9/28 75,641
12/29

Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682
6/30 44.956
9/28 47,506
12/29

Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)
4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/6-5/10 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
5/14 - 5/18 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/21- 5/25 2 breakfast and 1 diner out
5/27 - 6/2 2 breakfast out and 2 dinner out
6/3 -6/9 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
6/10 - 6/16 3 breakfast out and 2 dinners out (1 breakfast and 1 dinner as went to a concert out of the area)
6/17 - 6/23 3 breakfast and 2 dinners out
6/24 - 6/30 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
7/1 - 7/7 1 breakfast, 1 lunch, and 1 dinner out (lunch and dinner out, an out of town friend in town)
7/8 - 7/14 2 breakfast out
7/15 - 7/21 1 lunch out
7/22 - 7/28 1 breakfast out
7/29 - 8/4 1 breakfast out
8/5 - 8/25 1 diner night before vacation and 1 diner the night we got back
8/26 - 9/1 2 dinners out
9/2 - 9/8 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
9/9 - 9/15 2 breakfast out
9/16 - 9/22 2 breakfast out
9/23 - 9/29 2 breakfast out
9/30 - 10/6 2 breakfast out
10/7 - 10/13 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
10/14 - 10/20 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (son's bday!)
10/21 - 10/27 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
10/28 - 11/3 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
11/4- 11/10 2 breakfast out
11/11 - 11/17 2 breakfast out
11/18 - 11/24 1 breakfast and 1 lunch out
11/26 - 11/30 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
12/2 - 12/8 2 breakfast out
12/9 - 12/15 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
5/6 - 5/10 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (forgot lunch on counter :( )
5/14 - 5/18 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (Drs. appointment 1 day)
5/21 - 5/25 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
5/28 - 6/1 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
6/3 - 6/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days
6/10 -6/15 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
6/18 - 6/22 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 2 days (had a group lunch out)
School is out for summer!!
9/3 - 9/7 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 4 days
9/10 - 9/14 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
9/17 - 9/21 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
9/24 - 9/28 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/1 - 10/5 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 4 days
10 /8 - 10/12 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/15 - 10/19 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/22 - 10/26 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/29 - 11/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
11/5 - 11/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
11/12 - 11/6 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 3 days
11/19 - 11/23 Out of 1 school day brought lunch 1 day (Thanksgiving break)
11/26 - 11/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
12/3 - 12/7 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
12/10 - 12/14 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100
5/12 50/ 1150
5/17 50/1200
5/25 100/1300 (50 was from a lawnmower that I sold)
6/2 50/1350
6/9 50/1400
6/16 150/1550 (extra 100 from a stipend at school)
6/23 50/1600
6/30 100/1700 (extra 50 from items I sold via Facebook)
7/7 50/1750
7/14 200/1950 (150 was from rolling up all the loose change in the house)
7/21 50/2000
7/28 50/2050
8/4 100/2150 (extra 50 this week because on vacation next week)
8/21 100/ 2250 (extra 50 this week because on vacation last week)
9/1 50/2300
9/8 50/2350
9/15 50/2450
9/22 50/2500
9/28 50/2550
10/6 50/2600
10/13 50/2650
10/20 50/2700
10/27 50/2750
11/3 50/2800
11/10 50/2850
11/17 50/2900
11/24 50/2950
12/1 50/3000
12/8 150/3150 (extra 100 from a school stipend)
12/15 50/3200

Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 6/30 (101 days) brought lunch to work almost everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 101 days * $5= 505 dollars !!
7/13 Dropped garbage cost from 33.17 to 24.95/month saving 8.22/month (98.64 savings/year)


Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work
7/5 1 partial notepad used up
7/21 1 partial notepad - used up
10/20 1 partial notepad - used up
11/4 sorted through the bulk of office supplies and donated approx 149 items

Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)
5/6 - 5/12 5 items decluttered (495)
5/13 - 5/19 29 items decluttered (524)
5/20 - 5/25 11 items decluttered (535)
5/25 -6/1 167 items decluttered (702)
6/2 - 6/9 9 items decluttered (711)
6/10 - 6/16 43 items decluttered (754)
6/17 - 6/23 123 items declutter (877)
6/24 - 6/30 56 items decluttered (928)
7/1 - 7/7 367 items decluttered (1295)
7/8 - 7/14 46 items decluttered (1341)
7/15 - 7/21 8 items decluttered (1349)
7/22 - 7/28 62 items decluttered (1410)
7/29 - 8/4 10 items decluttered (1420)
8/5 - 8/25 6 items decluttered (1426)
8/26 - 9/1 60 items decluttered (1496)
9/2 - 9/8 32 items decluttered (1528)
9/9 - 9/15 10 items decluttered (1538)
9/16 - 9/22 47 items decluttered (1585)
9/23- 9/28 44 items decluttered (1626)
9/30 - 10/6 31 items decluttered (1657)
10/7 - 10/13 7 items decluttered (1664)
10/14 - 10/20 42 items decluttered (1706)
10/21 - 10/27 7 items decluttered (1713)
10/28 - 11/3 16 items decluttered (1739)
11/4 - 11/10 233 items decluttered(1972)
11/11 - 11/17 124 items decluttered (2096)
11/18 - 11/24 34 items decluttered (2130)
11/25 - 12/1 27 items decluttered (2157)
12/2 - 12/8 3 items decluttered (2160)
12/9 - 12/15 35 items decluttered (2195)

Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished
5/9 Book 14 finished
5/18 Book 15 finished
5/19 Book 16 finished
5/20 Book 17 finished
5/21 Book 18 finished
5/21 Book 19 finished
5/21 Book 20 finished

5/27 Book 21 finished
5/27 Book 22 finished
5/28 Book 23 finished
5/28 Book 24 finished
5/28 Book 25 finished
5/30 Book 26 finished
5/31 Book 27 finished
6/1 Book 28 finished
6/1 Book 29 finished
6/2 Book 30 finished
6/2 Book 31 finished
6/3 Book 32 finished (a bunch of these were TPB's that have been sitting on shelf for a long time. Read and then sell!!)
6/21 Book 33 finished
7/10 Book 34 finished
7/29 Book 35 finished
8/21 Book 36 finished
9/1 Book 37 finished
9/4 Book 38 finished
9/20 Book 39 finished
9/28 Book 40 finished
10/8 Book 41 finished
10/25 Book 42 finished
10/27 Book 43 finished
11/7 Book 44 finished
11/8 Book 45 finished
11/9 Book 46 finished
11/19 Book 47 finished
11/23 Book 48 finished



Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled
  • Clean/organize
  • Estimate
    • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
    • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
    • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls :(
    • Contractor #3 contacted but has not returned my phone call ?????
    • Contractor #3 called back and set up an appointment for Tuesday evening
    • Contractor #3 showed up and walked through the project, asked lots of questions, said he would have quote this Tuesday
    • Still waiting on quote from contractor 3
    • Contractor #3 got me the quote about 3000 over budget, guess we will do most work ourselves and contract out certain parts to save some money
  • Start Date
  • Project Finished

Fix items around the house
  • Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
  • Seal Laundry Room window casing (Done 7/23)
  • Seal Cellar Door (Done 9/22)
  • Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
  • Re-Build Flower Beds (Done 7/6)
  • Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
  • Install shelving in tool shed (Done 6/22)
  • Organize Tool Shed (Done 6/22)
  • Scrape Tool Shed (Done 7/9)
  • Prime Tool Shed (Done 7/10)
  • Paint Tool Shed (Done 7/11)
  • Fix Outside Phone Line (Done 5/18)
  • Fix leaking gutter
  • Add leaf catchers to gutters
  • Insulate cellar staircase
  • Re-Insulate cellar
  • Lay new sub-floor in Justin's’ room (Done 7/29)
  • Prime Justin’s room (Done 7/10)
  • Paint Justin's room (Done 7/11)
  • Replace cellar stairs
  • Fill/seal Driveway cracks (Done 9/18)
  • Fill curbing cracks/holes
 


Week 51 update: The countdown is on!!

Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498
6/1 3709
6/30 4001
7/28 4373
8/31 4494
9/28 3407 (-1128 sold under-performing stock and transferred 1000 to start a ROTH)
10/27 3185 (stock market down a bit)
12/1 912 (sold several stock positions)
12/15 0 (sold all of my DRIP stocks)
Decided this fall it was too much work to keep track of individual stocks, so started to liquidate this goal.

Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879
6/30 72,844
9/28 75,641
12/22 77,591

Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682
6/30 44.956
9/28 47,506
12/22 50,305

Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)
4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/6-5/10 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
5/14 - 5/18 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/21- 5/25 2 breakfast and 1 diner out
5/27 - 6/2 2 breakfast out and 2 dinner out
6/3 -6/9 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
6/10 - 6/16 3 breakfast out and 2 dinners out (1 breakfast and 1 dinner as went to a concert out of the area)
6/17 - 6/23 3 breakfast and 2 dinners out
6/24 - 6/30 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
7/1 - 7/7 1 breakfast, 1 lunch, and 1 dinner out (lunch and dinner out, an out of town friend in town)
7/8 - 7/14 2 breakfast out
7/15 - 7/21 1 lunch out
7/22 - 7/28 1 breakfast out
7/29 - 8/4 1 breakfast out
8/5 - 8/25 1 diner night before vacation and 1 diner the night we got back
8/26 - 9/1 2 dinners out
9/2 - 9/8 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
9/9 - 9/15 2 breakfast out
9/16 - 9/22 2 breakfast out
9/23 - 9/29 2 breakfast out
9/30 - 10/6 2 breakfast out
10/7 - 10/13 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
10/14 - 10/20 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (son's bday!)
10/21 - 10/27 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
10/28 - 11/3 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
11/4- 11/10 2 breakfast out
11/11 - 11/17 2 breakfast out
11/18 - 11/24 1 breakfast and 1 lunch out
11/26 - 11/30 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
12/2 - 12/8 2 breakfast out
12/9 - 12/15 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
12/16 - 12/22 2 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
5/6 - 5/10 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (forgot lunch on counter :( )
5/14 - 5/18 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (Drs. appointment 1 day)
5/21 - 5/25 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
5/28 - 6/1 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
6/3 - 6/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days
6/10 -6/15 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
6/18 - 6/22 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 2 days (had a group lunch out)
School is out for summer!!
9/3 - 9/7 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 4 days
9/10 - 9/14 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
9/17 - 9/21 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
9/24 - 9/28 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/1 - 10/5 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 4 days
10 /8 - 10/12 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/15 - 10/19 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/22 - 10/26 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/29 - 11/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
11/5 - 11/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
11/12 - 11/6 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 3 days
11/19 - 11/23 Out of 1 school day brought lunch 1 day (Thanksgiving break)
11/26 - 11/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
12/3 - 12/7 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
12/10 - 12/14 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
12/17 - 12/21 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100
5/12 50/ 1150
5/17 50/1200
5/25 100/1300 (50 was from a lawnmower that I sold)
6/2 50/1350
6/9 50/1400
6/16 150/1550 (extra 100 from a stipend at school)
6/23 50/1600
6/30 100/1700 (extra 50 from items I sold via Facebook)
7/7 50/1750
7/14 200/1950 (150 was from rolling up all the loose change in the house)
7/21 50/2000
7/28 50/2050
8/4 100/2150 (extra 50 this week because on vacation next week)
8/21 100/ 2250 (extra 50 this week because on vacation last week)
9/1 50/2300
9/8 50/2350
9/15 50/2450
9/22 50/2500
9/28 50/2550
10/6 50/2600
10/13 50/2650
10/20 50/2700
10/27 50/2750
11/3 50/2800
11/10 50/2850
11/17 50/2900
11/24 50/2950
12/1 50/3000
12/8 150/3150 (extra 100 from a school stipend)
12/15 50/3200
12/21 50/3250

Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 12/22 (171 days) brought lunch to work almost everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 171 days * $5= 855 dollars !!
7/13 Dropped garbage cost from 33.17 to 24.95/month saving 8.22/month (98.64 savings/year)


Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work
7/5 1 partial notepad used up
7/21 1 partial notepad - used up
10/20 1 partial notepad - used up
11/4 sorted through the bulk of office supplies and donated approx 149 items

Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)
5/6 - 5/12 5 items decluttered (495)
5/13 - 5/19 29 items decluttered (524)
5/20 - 5/25 11 items decluttered (535)
5/25 -6/1 167 items decluttered (702)
6/2 - 6/9 9 items decluttered (711)
6/10 - 6/16 43 items decluttered (754)
6/17 - 6/23 123 items declutter (877)
6/24 - 6/30 56 items decluttered (928)
7/1 - 7/7 367 items decluttered (1295)
7/8 - 7/14 46 items decluttered (1341)
7/15 - 7/21 8 items decluttered (1349)
7/22 - 7/28 62 items decluttered (1410)
7/29 - 8/4 10 items decluttered (1420)
8/5 - 8/25 6 items decluttered (1426)
8/26 - 9/1 60 items decluttered (1496)
9/2 - 9/8 32 items decluttered (1528)
9/9 - 9/15 10 items decluttered (1538)
9/16 - 9/22 47 items decluttered (1585)
9/23- 9/28 44 items decluttered (1626)
9/30 - 10/6 31 items decluttered (1657)
10/7 - 10/13 7 items decluttered (1664)
10/14 - 10/20 42 items decluttered (1706)
10/21 - 10/27 7 items decluttered (1713)
10/28 - 11/3 16 items decluttered (1739)
11/4 - 11/10 233 items decluttered(1972)
11/11 - 11/17 124 items decluttered (2096)
11/18 - 11/24 34 items decluttered (2130)
11/25 - 12/1 27 items decluttered (2157)
12/2 - 12/8 3 items decluttered (2160)
12/9 - 12/15 35 items decluttered (2195)
12/16 - 12/21 12 items decluttered (2207)

Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished
5/9 Book 14 finished
5/18 Book 15 finished
5/19 Book 16 finished
5/20 Book 17 finished
5/21 Book 18 finished
5/21 Book 19 finished
5/21 Book 20 finished

5/27 Book 21 finished
5/27 Book 22 finished
5/28 Book 23 finished
5/28 Book 24 finished
5/28 Book 25 finished
5/30 Book 26 finished
5/31 Book 27 finished
6/1 Book 28 finished
6/1 Book 29 finished
6/2 Book 30 finished
6/2 Book 31 finished
6/3 Book 32 finished (a bunch of these were TPB's that have been sitting on shelf for a long time. Read and then sell!!)
6/21 Book 33 finished
7/10 Book 34 finished
7/29 Book 35 finished
8/21 Book 36 finished
9/1 Book 37 finished
9/4 Book 38 finished
9/20 Book 39 finished
9/28 Book 40 finished
10/8 Book 41 finished
10/25 Book 42 finished
10/27 Book 43 finished
11/7 Book 44 finished
11/8 Book 45 finished
11/9 Book 46 finished
11/19 Book 47 finished
11/23 Book 48 finished
12/22 Book 49 finished



Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled
  • Clean/organize
  • Estimate
    • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
    • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
    • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls :(
    • Contractor #3 contacted but has not returned my phone call ?????
    • Contractor #3 called back and set up an appointment for Tuesday evening
    • Contractor #3 showed up and walked through the project, asked lots of questions, said he would have quote this Tuesday
    • Still waiting on quote from contractor 3
    • Contractor #3 got me the quote about 3000 over budget, guess we will do most work ourselves and contract out certain parts to save some money
  • Start Date
  • Project Finished

Fix items around the house
  • Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
  • Seal Laundry Room window casing (Done 7/23)
  • Seal Cellar Door (Done 9/22)
  • Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
  • Re-Build Flower Beds (Done 7/6)
  • Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
  • Install shelving in tool shed (Done 6/22)
  • Organize Tool Shed (Done 6/22)
  • Scrape Tool Shed (Done 7/9)
  • Prime Tool Shed (Done 7/10)
  • Paint Tool Shed (Done 7/11)
  • Fix Outside Phone Line (Done 5/18)
  • Fix leaking gutter
  • Add leaf catchers to gutters
  • Insulate cellar staircase
  • Re-Insulate cellar
  • Lay new sub-floor in Justin's’ room (Done 7/29)
  • Prime Justin’s room (Done 7/10)
  • Paint Justin's room (Done 7/11)
  • Replace cellar stairs
  • Fill/seal Driveway cracks (Done 9/18)
  • Fill curbing cracks/holes
 
Week 52 update: Time to wrap up 2018!!

As I know things will not change before the actual end of year I am going to update now as I have some time.
2018 was a tremendous year!! Got a lot of goals accomplished and feel pretty good about what got done. Overall happy with everything except one specific goal but that is how some things roll at times. Just gives me more to look forward and do for next year :)


Goals for 2018

Financial Goals
Eliminate last 900 dollars of student loans
2/10 Gone, done, finished!!!
By far the easiest goal to complete as it was almost done prior to the start of 2018 but it still felt really good to eliminate the student loan.

Increase DRIP stocks value to 5000
1/1 2507
1/28 3011
2/25 3150
3/31 3273
4/29 3498
6/1 3709
6/30 4001
7/28 4373
8/31 4494
9/28 3407 (-1128 sold under-performing stock and transferred 1000 to start a ROTH)
10/27 3185 (stock market down a bit)
12/1 912 (sold several stock positions)
12/15 0 (sold all of my DRIP stocks)
Goal Failure A bit of a fail but still a win. Figured out that I am not cut out for single stock investing , so I liquidated this goal. Started a Roth with some of the proceeds (much better investment of time and energy!!) and put some in the new car fund as I will have to replace a car probably within 2 years or so.

Increase my 403b value to 75,000
1/1 60,000
3/31 66,879
6/30 72,844
9/28 75,641
12/22 77,591
Goal Success met even with downturn of the stock-market

Increase wife’s 403b value to 50,000
1/1 40,000
3/31 41,682
6/30 44.956
9/28 47,506
12/22 50,305
Goal Success met even with downturn in the stock market

Decrease eating out budget to: (1 morning and 1 evening per week + a few special occasions) Currently eating out 4 mornings and 2-3 evenings per week - NO MORE!!!!!
1/1 - 1/7 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
1/8 - 1/14 0 breakfast and 3 dinners out (2 of these we because we were out of town for robotics competition)
1/15 - 1/21 1 breakfast and 1 dinner (anniversary)
1/22 - 1/28 1 breakfast and 2 dinners (both worked late one evening)
1/29 - 2/4 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/5 -2/12 1 breakfast, 1 dinner and 3 lunches out (the lunches were because of the robotics competition over the weekend!! breakfast was free at hotel and dinners over the weekend were on gift cards that we had on hand)
2/13 - 2/18 1 breakfast and 1 dinner
2/19 - 2/25 1 breakfast, (Sat) breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Robotics Competition left 5am got home 8pm)
2/26 - 3/4 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (had an early work meeting and the dinner out was robotics team related)
3/5 - 3/11 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
3/12 - 3/18 2 breakfast and 1 lunch
3/19 - 3/25 2 breakfast and 2 dinners
3/26 - 3/31 2 breakfast and 1 dinner
4/1 - 4/8 1 breakfast and 2 dinners
4/9 - 4/14 3 breakfast and 2 lunches (2 breakfast and 1 lunch was for out of town conf)
4/22 - 4/29 2 breakfast and 2 dinners out
4/20- 5/6 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/6-5/10 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
5/14 - 5/18 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
5/21- 5/25 2 breakfast and 1 diner out
5/27 - 6/2 2 breakfast out and 2 dinner out
6/3 -6/9 2 breakfast and 2 dinner out
6/10 - 6/16 3 breakfast out and 2 dinners out (1 breakfast and 1 dinner as went to a concert out of the area)
6/17 - 6/23 3 breakfast and 2 dinners out
6/24 - 6/30 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
7/1 - 7/7 1 breakfast, 1 lunch, and 1 dinner out (lunch and dinner out, an out of town friend in town)
7/8 - 7/14 2 breakfast out
7/15 - 7/21 1 lunch out
7/22 - 7/28 1 breakfast out
7/29 - 8/4 1 breakfast out
8/5 - 8/25 1 diner night before vacation and 1 diner the night we got back
8/26 - 9/1 2 dinners out
9/2 - 9/8 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
9/9 - 9/15 2 breakfast out
9/16 - 9/22 2 breakfast out
9/23 - 9/29 2 breakfast out
9/30 - 10/6 2 breakfast out
10/7 - 10/13 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
10/14 - 10/20 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out (son's bday!)
10/21 - 10/27 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
10/28 - 11/3 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
11/4- 11/10 2 breakfast out
11/11 - 11/17 2 breakfast out
11/18 - 11/24 1 breakfast and 1 lunch out
11/26 - 11/30 1 breakfast and 1 dinner out
12/2 - 12/8 2 breakfast out
12/9 - 12/15 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
12/16 - 12/22 2 2 breakfast and 1 dinner out
12/23 - 12/18 2 breakfast out
Goal Success Medium. This was one of the harder goals to complete but at least we cut the eating out budget by half :) More to work on for next year!!

Start bringing lunches to work regularly - no more eating at school cafeteria (food not great and it is 5 dollars for teachers)
1/1 - 1/7 Out of the 4 school days this week brought lunch 4 days
1/8 - 1/14 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
1/15 - 1/21 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/22 - 1/28 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
1/29 - 2/4 Out of 5 school days this week brought lunch all 5 days
2/5 - 2/9 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/12 - 2/16 Out of 4 school days this week brought lunch all 4 days
2/19 - 2/23 No school this week no lunches out!!
2/26 - 3/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
3/5 - 3/9 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/11 - 3/15 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
3/19 - 3/23 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
3/26 - 3/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/2 - 4/6 No school/spring break no lunches out
4/9 - 4/13 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 3 days (day 4 was a conference day)
4/16 - 4/20 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/23- 4/27 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
4/30- 5/4 Out of 5 school days brought lunch all 5 days
5/6 - 5/10 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (forgot lunch on counter :( )
5/14 - 5/18 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days (Drs. appointment 1 day)
5/21 - 5/25 Out of 4 school days brought lunch all 4 days
5/28 - 6/1 Out of 3 school days brought lunch all 3 days
6/3 - 6/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 4 days
6/10 -6/15 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
6/18 - 6/22 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 2 days (had a group lunch out)
School is out for summer!!
9/3 - 9/7 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 4 days
9/10 - 9/14 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
9/17 - 9/21 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
9/24 - 9/28 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/1 - 10/5 Out of 4 school days brought lunch 4 days
10 /8 - 10/12 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/15 - 10/19 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/22 - 10/26 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
10/29 - 11/2 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
11/5 - 11/9 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
11/12 - 11/6 Out of 3 school days brought lunch 3 days
11/19 - 11/23 Out of 1 school day brought lunch 1 day (Thanksgiving break)
11/26 - 11/30 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
12/3 - 12/7 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
12/10 - 12/14 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
12/17 - 12/21 Out of 5 school days brought lunch 5 days
12/24 - 12/28 No School X-Mas Break
Goal Success!! Brought lunch 171 days to work!! A nice little chunk of cash savings!!

Continue saving 50/ week for vacation
1/1 50/50
1/7 50/100
1/14 50/150
1/21 50/200
1/28 50/250
2/4 50/300
2/11 50/350
2/18 50/400
2/25 50/450
3/4 50/500
3/11 50/550
3/18 50/600
3/24 50 /650
3/31 50/700
4/7 100/800
4/14 50/850
4/22 100/950
4/29 50/ 1000
5/5 100/1100
5/12 50/ 1150
5/17 50/1200
5/25 100/1300 (50 was from a lawnmower that I sold)
6/2 50/1350
6/9 50/1400
6/16 150/1550 (extra 100 from a stipend at school)
6/23 50/1600
6/30 100/1700 (extra 50 from items I sold via Facebook)
7/7 50/1750
7/14 200/1950 (150 was from rolling up all the loose change in the house)
7/21 50/2000
7/28 50/2050
8/4 100/2150 (extra 50 this week because on vacation next week)
8/21 100/ 2250 (extra 50 this week because on vacation last week)
9/1 50/2300
9/8 50/2350
9/15 50/2450
9/22 50/2500
9/28 50/2550
10/6 50/2600
10/13 50/2650
10/20 50/2700
10/27 50/2750
11/3 50/2800
11/10 50/2850
11/17 50/2900
11/24 50/2950
12/1 50/3000
12/8 150/3150 (extra 100 from a school stipend)
12/15 50/3200
12/21 50/3250
12/28 50/3300
Goal Super Success!! Goal was 2600 and I ended up with 3300!!

Cut Discretionary Spending by 20%
Tracked our entire spending for the month of January so now can see where we actually spend money and make some adjustments!!
2/19 Dropped cell phone bill by 15 dollars and got a better (unlimited) plan ($180 saving/year)
1/1 - 12/22 (171 days) brought lunch to work almost everyday so far this year I have managed to save approximately 171 days * $5= 855 dollars !!
7/13 Dropped garbage cost from 33.17 to 24.95/month saving 8.22/month (98.64 savings/year)
1/1 - 12/28 Eating out dropped by half. I easily figure we saved about 2500 dollars (probably more but I can not quantify it at this time)
Goal Major Failure :( At least still did save some money cut 3600 dollars from yearly expenses, so that was good. Still can cut some more in the new year, just need to be thinking about it a bit more consciously.



Eat out of pantry/freezer for January to use up as much as possible
1/1 - 1/7 used up 15 items from pantry and freezer
1/8 - 1/14 used up 9 items from pantry and freezer
1/15 - 1/21 used up 11 items from pantry/freezer
1/22 - 1/28 used up 13 items from pantry/freezer
1/29 - 2/4 used up 7 items from pantry/freezer
2/5 - 2/11 used up 3 items from pantry/freezer
2/12 - 2/18 Nothing used up from pantry/freezer this week not a lot pre-Jan stuff left
Goal Success!! Used up a ton of food last January and early Feb. Saved a boat load of money on groceries in Jan and cut down on some food waste!

Not buying any office supplies for personal use (have enough to stock a small business!!)
1/10 Used up pack of 5 insertable page tab separators for stock statements
1/14 Used up 1 roll of scotch tape
1/15 1 pkg of loose-leaf paper to school
2/4 1 binder used for some semi important documents
2/16 Used up 1 partial notepad
2/20 1 used binder - donated
2/23 1 partial notepad - used up
3/10 1 partial notepad used up
3/25 1 partial notepad used up
3/31 1 partial note pad used up
4/7 2 brand new notepads given away
4/24 brought 4 notepads to work
7/5 1 partial notepad used up
7/21 1 partial notepad - used up
10/20 1 partial notepad - used up
11/4 sorted through the bulk of office supplies and donated approx 149 items
Goal Success!! Used up some of the extra office supplies and donated a bunch of needed items to the robotics center!! That should save them a bit of cash over the next couple of years. Probably still have too much but at least it is much better contained and functional than before.

Life Goals
Declutter 2018 items in 2018
1/1-1/7 23 items decluttered (23)
1/8 - 1/14 40 items decluttered (63)
1/15 - 1/21 129 item decluttered (172)
1/22 - 1/28 88 items decluttered (260)
1/29 - 2/4 6 items decluttered (266)
2/5 - 2/11 9 items decluttered (275)
2/12 - 2/18 12 items decluttered (287)
2/19 - 2/25 62 items decluttered (349)
2/26 - 3/3 5 items decluttered (354)
3/6 - 3/11 13 items decluttered (367)
3/12 - 3/18 7 items decluttered (374)
3/19 - 3/25 1 item decluttered (375)
3/26 - 3/31 32 items decluttered (407)
4/1 - 4/7 13 items decluttered (420)
4/8 - 4/4/14 30 items decluttered (450)
4/22 - 4/29 4 notepads decluttered (454)
5/6 - 5/12 5 items decluttered (495)
5/13 - 5/19 29 items decluttered (524)
5/20 - 5/25 11 items decluttered (535)
5/25 -6/1 167 items decluttered (702)
6/2 - 6/9 9 items decluttered (711)
6/10 - 6/16 43 items decluttered (754)
6/17 - 6/23 123 items declutter (877)
6/24 - 6/30 56 items decluttered (928)
7/1 - 7/7 367 items decluttered (1295)
7/8 - 7/14 46 items decluttered (1341)
7/15 - 7/21 8 items decluttered (1349)
7/22 - 7/28 62 items decluttered (1410)
7/29 - 8/4 10 items decluttered (1420)
8/5 - 8/25 6 items decluttered (1426)
8/26 - 9/1 60 items decluttered (1496)
9/2 - 9/8 32 items decluttered (1528)
9/9 - 9/15 10 items decluttered (1538)
9/16 - 9/22 47 items decluttered (1585)
9/23- 9/28 44 items decluttered (1626)
9/30 - 10/6 31 items decluttered (1657)
10/7 - 10/13 7 items decluttered (1664)
10/14 - 10/20 42 items decluttered (1706)
10/21 - 10/27 7 items decluttered (1713)
10/28 - 11/3 16 items decluttered (1739)
11/4 - 11/10 233 items decluttered(1972)
11/11 - 11/17 124 items decluttered (2096)
11/18 - 11/24 34 items decluttered (2130)
11/25 - 12/1 27 items decluttered (2157)
12/2 - 12/8 3 items decluttered (2160)
12/9 - 12/15 35 items decluttered (2195)
12/16 - 12/21 12 items decluttered (2207)
12/22 - 12/28 31 items decluttered (2238)
Goal Super Success!! Not only did we meet the goal of 2018 but we exceeded it (2238)!! Things are starting to look a lot better here at home.


Lose 30 pounds (starting at 300 lbs)
3/4 299
Goal Major Failure :( Torn Meniscus, extra hours at work, some extra travel, on-line classes all added up to not help with this goal. Will do better in the coming year!

Personal Goals
Read 20 books
1/7 Book 1 completed
1/28 Book 2 completed
2/4 Book 3 completed
2/14 Book 4 completed
2/17 Book 5 completed
2/18 Book 6 finished
2/18 Book 7 finished
2/18 Book 8 finished
2/19 Book 9 finished
2/20 Book 10 finished
3/11 Book 11 finished
3/26 Book 12 finished
4/19 Book 13 finished
5/9 Book 14 finished
5/18 Book 15 finished
5/19 Book 16 finished
5/20 Book 17 finished
5/21 Book 18 finished
5/21 Book 19 finished
5/21 Book 20 finished

5/27 Book 21 finished
5/27 Book 22 finished
5/28 Book 23 finished
5/28 Book 24 finished
5/28 Book 25 finished
5/30 Book 26 finished
5/31 Book 27 finished
6/1 Book 28 finished
6/1 Book 29 finished
6/2 Book 30 finished
6/2 Book 31 finished
6/3 Book 32 finished (a bunch of these were TPB's that have been sitting on shelf for a long time. Read and then sell!!)
6/21 Book 33 finished
7/10 Book 34 finished
7/29 Book 35 finished
8/21 Book 36 finished
9/1 Book 37 finished
9/4 Book 38 finished
9/20 Book 39 finished
9/28 Book 40 finished
10/8 Book 41 finished
10/25 Book 42 finished
10/27 Book 43 finished
11/7 Book 44 finished
11/8 Book 45 finished
11/9 Book 46 finished
11/19 Book 47 finished
11/23 Book 48 finished
12/22 Book 49 finished
12/27 Book 50 finished
Goal Super Success!! Read twice as many as I had envisioned. Worked through a nice stack of books that have been laying around and then donated most of them afterwards. (Probably kept about a dozen of them as they are favorite authors)


Get upstairs bathroom and bedroom remodeled
  • Clean/organize
  • Estimate
    • Contractor came to look at project 2/23
    • Got the estimate (came in way to high) getting 2nd estimate
    • Contractor #2 never showed up or has yet to return my calls :(
    • Contractor #3 contacted but has not returned my phone call ?????
    • Contractor #3 called back and set up an appointment for Tuesday evening
    • Contractor #3 showed up and walked through the project, asked lots of questions, said he would have quote this Tuesday
    • Still waiting on quote from contractor 3
    • Contractor #3 got me the quote about 3000 over budget, guess we will do most work ourselves and contract out certain parts to save some money
  • Start Date
  • Project Finished
Goal failure but not from a lack of trying. On the upside I have purchased a number of the supplies that are needed (all of the electrical, tile, sink, toilet, shower fixtures, lights, bathroom vent) just need to purchase plumbing supplies, OSB for sub-floor, and Sheetrock. Have a line on a guy to do the plumbing, another who can do the taping, I can do the demo, electrical, sheet-rocking, painting. So this is not in as bad of shape goal wise and should save me a bunch of money as well!

Fix items around the house
  • Fix carpet on stairs - (Done 1/5 )
  • Seal Laundry Room window casing (Done 7/23)
  • Seal Cellar Door (Done 9/22)
  • Fix/Replace Backdoor Door Knob (Done 1/3)
  • Re-Build Flower Beds (Done 7/6)
  • Organize Hand Tools (Done 1/1)
  • Install shelving in tool shed (Done 6/22)
  • Organize Tool Shed (Done 6/22)
  • Scrape Tool Shed (Done 7/9)
  • Prime Tool Shed (Done 7/10)
  • Paint Tool Shed (Done 7/11)
  • Fix Outside Phone Line (Done 5/18)
  • Fix leaking gutter
  • Add leaf catchers to gutters
  • Insulate cellar staircase
  • Re-Insulate cellar
  • Lay new sub-floor in Justin's’ room (Done 7/29)
  • Prime Justin’s room (Done 7/10)
  • Paint Justin's room (Done 7/11)
  • Replace cellar stairs
  • Fill/seal Driveway cracks (Done 9/18)
  • Fill curbing cracks/holes
Goal somewhat successful. I intentionally listed more here than I could possibly get done but it also served as a checklist of what I need to continue to work on as time and money permit. I am happy with results overall in this category.

A few other things that were not goals but got done as well
-Took 3 on-line classes over the summer to increase my pay by an extra 700 dollars per year from now to retirement!!
-Was selected as 1 of 24 people nationwide to attend an all expenses paid week long leadership conference last summer for Robotics coaches (Best professional development that I have ever attended!!)
-Opened a Roth IRA
-Started a fund to buy a corvette (a few dollars here and there as money is found) :)
-Epoxied and painted foundation of the house
 

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