Given that today is the end of July it is a day of accountability. Every month we set goals for ourselves as to what we want to accomplish. As we move toward a more environmentally conscious lifestyle a lot of our goals seem to have a green slant to them. The desire to reduce our eco footprint has had the added bonus of reducing our monthly expenses as well.
Our July goals were as follows:
No eating out in restaurants
No purchasing new items (except for groceries)
Find a place for the family to volunteer
The results:
We ate out 4 times in July. Once when we had company and 3 times on our own. We plan to carry this challenge over to August, with the exception that we will likely eat out during my birthday weekend.
We purchased 2 new cookbooks and 2 new dvd's at the very beginning of the month. To "punish" ourselves we purged out 6 old cookbooks and a dozen old movies and donated them to the thrift store.
Finding a place to volunteer was more difficult than I had imagined. I placed numerous calls to a local elderly care center and didn't receive any responses, same with an AIDS charity in the desert. I will have to carry this challenge over to August as well.
Awesome August-- that's the new theme for August. I would encourage you all to view August as a fresh start to and make it awesome in your own way.
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Will you be adding any new goals for Awesome August? Maybe a follow up for the places you'd like to volunteer? Also, it's a little late for "Christmas in July" but it's a good time to stock up on cheap items for back to school drives and packages to send out for Christmas. I'm thinking of picking up hand sanitizer and clearance summer toys to send to the troops.
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