January 2019 Goals Updated

Where did January go? How is it already February? Lets take a look and see how I did this month. 

Financial

- Put 15% into retirement. Did it!
- Grocery Budget of $400 average for the year. I spent $412 so I am already over for the year. I may have to bump the budget up. We will see what happens in February. 
- List 20 new items on eBay and Craigslist. Done
- Make $250 side hustle. I got my last pay check for $140, I sold 3 items on eBay for $30 total profit, I cashed out a GC at Lucky Bucks for $10 to Home Depot, a GC from Verizon points for $5 to HD. Total $195. 
- Go over our budget with Hubby We do this every month
- Go over the kids budgets with each of them.  Done!
- YD apply for scholarships. We have been working on them. 
- Go to scholarship meeting at HS I went with YD and a friend.

Family

- Go on a date with Hubby We did 2. 1 was at an Italian restaurant and we paid for it with a gift card. The 2nd one was at a nice steak house and we paid half with a gift card. 
- Go prom dress shopping with YD We went 2 different days but have not found the dress yet.
- Facetime with OD every week.We haven't Facetimed. We have both been busy. We do talk almost everyday on her walk home from work. Just can't Facetime while she walks. 
- Hubby go for physical He went and everything came back good! 
- Visit my aunt and have her go through the yarn We had a nice lunch. I gave her 2 boxes of yarn. She was very grateful.

Personal

- Work out 15 minutes everyday Lets not talk about it. 

- Read 2 books. I read The Final Day by William Forstchen. 

Food

- Do one meatless meal a day. I think we didn't do this twice. I call that a win.

- Do one day a week with no meat at all. We did this 4 times

- Try 2 new recipes.  I did 4. I made a Mexican chick pea salad. YD and my son loved it. Hubby said it was OK. That is code for I will eat it but don't make it often.  We made Cinnamon Raisin French Toast. I made a BBQ chick pea wrap. I made mini chocolate cheesecakes. 

- Get another pantry item to 6 months. I bought more rice.  I got a 25 pound bag of GF flour for YD. I am thinking that will be good for 6 months. I bought 6 large cans of whole tomatoes. 

- No food waste.  I threw away some odds and ends out when we tore apart the laundry closet/pantry. There were some stale graham crackers and the bottom of a chip bag. I think hubby said he threw out something one day from the fridge but I don't remember what.

Cleaning

- Clean out all of the kitchen cabinets. We ended up tearing apart the laundry closet/ pantry that is in the kitchen. I had done most of the cabinets before we did it. I still have 3 left to do. 

- Clean out my closet . Nope but I did the coat closet.

- Redo laundry area. It is done except for the bar and curtain. We are going to buy them this weekend.

How did you do on your January goals?