Sunday, January 06, 2013

Day 8 - making progress

Not much going on today...put all the recycling in my car to take on the way to work tomorrow.  Felt good to see the recycle space in my garage all cleared out.  2 bags of aluminum cans (we still drink too much soda), 3 bags of plastics, 1 large tub of newspapers, few cardboard boxes (I had taken the post Xmas boxes like the next day!).

Worked on my taxes, gathering receipts for my charitable contributions and feeling good looking thru those.  I logged onto my credit card accounts and the totals were way lower than usual - very nice to see...that even this week of non-shopping has done.  I think I need to set a specific goal to work on now....maybe vacation fund.

2 comments:

Erica Kain said...

Good for you! Sounds awesome.

This past Christmas I used Smarty Pig (smartypig.com) to make sure I started saving in October for the gifts we would want to buy. It was painful, but a good exercise, and made for a stress-free December.

Toffee said...

Cool...smarty pig - what a funny name!