Blogging: Goal: 14 per month Actually 16 post for the month!
Weight: Goal: Met and maintain weight of 175. This goal will be considered met each month that weight loss is achieved and once this weight is achieved, each month maintained is considered achieved. I did make some small gains/loss in the area. The last two weeks have been a real struggle.
Spiritual- Goal. I want to spend time reading and or studying the Bible at least 5 days a week for the year. Does half met count? I was doing so well until this past week.
Financial Goals-
1. Full Fund the budget each month. Fail
2. Emergency Fund to $2000. Fail
3. Groceries: Goal is for $700. Fail
4. Gas: Spend $400 a month . Fail but not as bad as I thought $435 for the month.
5. Eating out- $200 another decrease from even the previous month!
Disney- GOAL MET!
October was a long hard month for us. Part of the reason was that it lasted 5 weeks, another contributing factor was the restocking that was needed after spending less than $400 for groceries in September. I am looking forward to November with a more confident air! We are focusing on our Disney vacation. In order to start the month in a positive way hear are a couple of things that hopefully will help me achieve more of the goals.
1. Gas prices continue to drop, we have just finished paying all taxes for vehicles for the year and currently I don’t know of any repair needs for the month. I will be counting gas for the trip as part of the regular budget so I expect to stay right at $400.
2. We have already made our monthly trip to Costco, did that today. We ended up spending less than $400. We will be picking up our chicken order from Zaycon tomorrow so that will show allow us to not purchase any more meat until January. My goal for the month is to keep the grocery budget to $500 which will help to fund several other areas of our budget.
3. Our trip is mostly paid for, I have already made a list and purchased all the items that I *think* we need expect for cheap rain ponchos. The kids all have spending money and I am going to use “Disney Rewards” to cover the Bippity Boppity Boutique for at least 2 of the kids. We will be eating our while traveling but this should be a minimal expense of less than $200. We did eat out today but the plan is to eat at home until we leave for the trip.