February Goals 2018

February Goals

• Pay off the second credit card on our list
• Pay part of the third credit card on our list
• Spend more time with friends and family
• Read “The Joy of Less”
• Have a clean laundry room

Our February Plan

The second credit card on our list currently has 0% interest and we want to make sure we pay it off before time runs out and the interest is added. We currently owe $475 on it. We will be focusing everything we have on clearing this debt. We are going to avoid buying anything but groceries. We are going to try to avoid going out to eat this month. We are eating the cheapest dinner options that I can come up with that are still reasonably healthy for our family. I will be taking the kids to the library a couple of times so that we can get out of the house together but not spend anything.

The third credit card on our list has a current balance of $464.89. We didn’t think we would be able to completely pay off both but we wanted to at least start working on it. I would like to pay $100 of it this month. It is actually the credit card with the lowest balance. We will be paying them in order of lowest to highest balance starting with this card. The first two were higher on the list for other reasons.

We have been so busy with work, sick kids, and developing our goals/plans that we did not get to spend much time with anybody outside of our immediate family in January. We wanted to make friends and family a priority in February. We already have four days over the next week planned to visit with people. Two are with family and two are with friends.

I have been attempting to read “The Joy of Less” since I bought it in December. I am making it one of my goals this month to finish it. I want to read through it and then go back through it to implement the teachings in it into our life/home. I plan to dedicate at least ten minutes a day until I finish it. I used to read a lot and I miss it.

Our laundry room has become the bane of my existence. I hate even going in there and I have to walk through it to get to the garage every day, sometimes multiple times a day. I will be working on cleaning it out. We had a ton of extra laundry in January because of the girls being sick multiple times. We are now behind on it. We are going to spend the first weekend of February catching up on laundry and getting it put away. We bought a hanging rack for our broom, mop, and things. We will be putting that up. We are also considering putting a shelf in our laundry room for detergent and stuff. There is a closet in there that we use to store art supplies and games. I am trying to decide if these items make sense in this area and where else we could possibly store them. Maybe we could get rid of some of the stuff in that closet too.

Are you working on anything in February? I’d love to hear about it! I’ll do an update at the end of the month. Wish us luck!