September Goals Review

Financial Goals:

1. Savings of $1000 in personal ING account - DONE!
2. Pay off $292 in university debts (to tax office) - DONE!
3. 10 NSD Challenge - FAIL! I only had 4 No Spend Days in September. How sad is that?
4. Don't use the credit card - FAIL! Yes, it was used. Again and again.
5. Fill out green form and send it off to work's Financial Services so my HECS debt can be automatically taken off my tax pay each year - FAIL! Completely forgot to do this.
6. Record every spending for the entire month - FAIL! I'm pretty sure I may have missed (or omitted) a few days or items here and there.

Other Goals:

1. No Sweets Month - EPIC FAIL! This is not ever going to be a goal again because it's just not possible.
2. Exercise 3 times a week including PT session - FAIL-ish! Sometimes we went for 3, sometimes 2 or none at all. Must do better in October.
3. Drink alcohol only 2 nights a week - DONE! I probably only had 2-3 drinking days in September!

Next month I am going to have more greens!

No Spend Day

Finally, I have finally have something to show for the NSD Challenge (or nothing to show?). Yesterday, I brought my breakfast to work (PB&H sandwich), had a cooked pasta for lunch and had 2-minute noodles for dinner! I did went grocery shopping today though and it was $41.30 with nary a sign of meat. Why are groceries in Sydney so expensive?

This what I have to show for $41.30:

1kg cous cous - $4.49
Marinade 160g - $3.19
Maltesers x 4 small packs - $3.96
Girly pads - $5.74
Grain waves chips - $2.99
Moroccan seasoning - $2.93
Greens Pancakes mix - $2.99
Pepsi Max 1L - $1.09
Schweppes Lemonade 1L - $1.09
3L milk - $3.66
1kg Jasmine rice - $2.49
1 loaf of bread - $3.99
12pk eggs - $2.69

These items are also mostly on sale except for the pads and the milk. Some of them are supplies that will last for a while like the cous cous, the seasoning and the rice and the bread should last until next week.

Tomorrow is going to be another NSD. I'm not even bringing cash to work so I don't get tempted. That brings my total to 2 days out of 10 and it's already the 10th tomorrow.

10 Things Challenge

This challenge was actually harder than I thought - I definitely had more crap lying around than this but I finally assembled 10 Things to either throw out and give away.

1. Old Grazia magazines from 2008 - instead of putting this in recycling, I'm taking it to work so it can be read a couple more times before being recycled (better their trash than mine).

2. Yellow and white knee-high socks with pom poms - free from a magazine. To be donated. Someone will be happy with this.

3. An inflatable plane pillow. Painful and ineffective.

4. Gift boxes that were given to us on our engagement party. I was saving them up to used for Christmas but I don't think I'll be using them. Straight to recycling.

5. Three CD's that comes free from the newspaper - a pasta recipe one, a space 3D and some classical stuff. To be donated.

6. Tofu toys. My friend got me these from Japan. To be donated.

7. White pillowcase with MOULD! To be thrown out.

8. Bangles. Nothing wrong with them, I just don't like them anymore. To be donated.

9. Scraps of fabric from Cambodia. To be thrown out.

10. Some paper & magazines that are just plain clutter. Recycling!

I'll be doing this challenge again next weekend until we're just left with the bare essentials.

To Do: 10 Things Challenge

I just saw this 10 Things Challenge in the Simple.Organized.Life blog and it's such a good idea. I have so much clutter at home that I would probably need to do this challenge every week for a year. This is on my to-do list for Friday! Pictures are forthcoming.