Funny about Money challenged me and other bloggers to come up with five new goals or ideas to improve our financial life, here in midsummer 2008. Then we’ll see, come the end of the year, whether any of these bear fruit.
Five new goals, huh?
Hmmm.
Okay, here’s we go…
1. Increase deposits to savings account by $250 per month. On the surface this should be easy since I’ll be saving the $200-$250 per month I was paying for Son’s preschool. Then again I am about to quit my job, so it’s a good goal.
2. Monetize a blog. I’m not sure if this one should be monetized, but I’ve been wanting to start a profit-making blog for awhile. Stay tuned.
3. Sell all of my saleable stock. I have a bunch of baby clothes, toys and other miscellanea that needs to go on Craigslist or be sold in some other way. Gee, wonder why no one’s buying it. Oh, that’s right. It has to be listed so they know it’s for sale…
4. Get Quicken, or another money management software (suggestions welcome!). It’s embarrassing that I have not done so yet. I have my own method of random organization bolstered by masses of receipts. It’s quite effective, as you can imagine. I’d like to be able to get my taxes ready for filing by February 1 next year, instead of this year’s April 13th chaos (hey, I was two full days early!).
5. Cut restaurant spending. This is the largest area of waste in our budget. Between Husband ordering lunches and me having pleading that I’m too tired/busy/pre-menstrual too cook, we could save considerable moolah by cutting down this unnecessary spending. My new goal will be two dinners and two lunches per month. Think I should run that by Husband first? Nah.
Those are my five midsummer goals. I’m going to tag five more people, and they’ll tell five friends, and they’ll tell five friends, and so on and so on and so on…
If you aren’t tagged and would like to participate just link back to this post and I’ll post your link here. Ifyou don’t have a blog go ahead and tell us your goals in the comments!
Five bloggers who will have terrific goals and ideas:
- Emily at Remodeling This Life
- Alison at This Wasn’t In The Plan
- PaidTwice at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already…
- Moolanomy
- Frugal Babe
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August 1, 2008 at 12:00 am
Great ideas! It’s amazing how much you can save by cutting down on restaurant excursions.
Quicken (and its various cousins) are godsends…at least for those of us who can’t add the same set of numbers on our fingers twice and come up with two identical answers. Be sure to back up, back up, back up. One hard-disk crash and your entire life disappears.
August 9, 2008 at 11:02 am
Thanks for tagging me! I’ll get around to it eventually 🙂
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