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The boards are dead- poll time!
Hey ladies!
1. What is/are your New Year's Resolution(s)?
2. Do you and your SO have any NYRs you are working towards together?
3. What are some steps you have already taken to acheive them?
4. What do you think will be the hardest one to accomplish (if you have more than one)?
5. What do you think will be your biggest obsticle in acheiving your goal(s)?
Re: The boards are dead- poll time!
I drink spinach smoothies, too! I think pears and apples cut through the spinach-y taste really well
1. What is/are your New Year's Resolution(s)? Lose weight, make a baby
2. Do you and your SO have any NYRs you are working towards together? Finish our upstairs renovation and basement renovation.
3. What are some steps you have already taken to acheive them? We finished our kitchen 100% this week, starting taking down walls upstairs and putting up new walls, cleaned out the basement.
4. What do you think will be the hardest one to accomplish (if you have more than one)? The basement, I think DH is putting a lot on his plate.
5. What do you think will be your biggest obsticle in acheiving your goal(s)? DH and his forever changing mind. He can never settle on one floor plan.
TTC 19 months ~Started RE in March 2014~
DH was not ready for IUI so we waited
~Started acupuncture in May 2014~
~~BFP 7/6/14~~~EDD 3/14/15~~It's a girl!!~~
Good for you!! I did this about a year ago and substitued soda with seltzer. I can't stand the taste of soda now.
TTC 19 months ~Started RE in March 2014~
DH was not ready for IUI so we waited
~Started acupuncture in May 2014~
~~BFP 7/6/14~~~EDD 3/14/15~~It's a girl!!~~
I went almost 3 years without drinking soda in HS, so I think I can do it again- it might be a bit harder for DH though- he has a Coke problem (he he he).
Good luck on your renovations and TTC!
1. What is/are your New Year's Resolution(s)?
To eat healthier and lose weight.
2. Do you and your SO have any NYRs you are working towards together?
Stick to our updated budget we made yesterday and seriously pay down some of H's SLs.
3. What are some steps you have already taken to achieve them?
Get all the junk food out of the house, exercise. Keep track of our receipts and monitor the areas in which we want to decrease how much we spend.
4. What do you think will be the hardest one to accomplish (if you have more than one)?
Lose weight.
5. What do you think will be your biggest obstacle in achieving your goal(s)?
My love for chocolate and H and I's laziness.
So does my DH! The man is going to have a heart attack at the age of 40 with the amount of cola he consumes haha
1. What is/are your New Year's Resolution(s)? To pay off my credit card, pay down my student loans, and get pregnant
2. Do you and your SO have any NYRs you are working towards together? To work on our financial situation and build up a nice savings account. DH has a bit of a spending problem we are trying to work on
3. What are some steps you have already taken to achieve them? I already have a savings account where I have money directly deposited from my paycheck, DH is going to work on not compulsive spending. And I am going to go home tonight and check out my monthly budget and try to allocate extra money towards my loans. Fuuun stuff.
4. What do you think will be the hardest one to accomplish (if you have more than one)? Getting pregnant
5. What do you think will be your biggest obstacle in achieving your goal(s)? DH being stubborn when it comes to TTC1. What is/are your New Year's Resolution(s)?
Have a healthy pregnancy ( 9 weeks right now w/ twins)
2. Do you and your SO have any NYRs you are working towards together?
Our sort of resolution is to move to a new house this spring/ early summer.
3. What are some steps you have already taken to acheive them?
got pre approval for a mortgage, and going to start researching areas to move to.
4. What do you think will be the hardest one to accomplish (if you have more than one)?
Sticker shock and taking the plunge
5. What do you think will be your biggest obsticle in acheiving your goal(s)?
Again Sticker shock and figuring out how we can swing it, but we have a place to sell in a high price area so hopefully that will help.
1. What is/are your New Year's Resolution(s)?
DH and I want to get a complete cash system for our finances. Also, saving for a down payment on a home and getting pregnant.
2. Do you and your SO have any NYRs you are working towards together?
Everything stated above in question number 1.
3. What are some steps you have already taken to acheive them?
As soon as we get taxes back we are paying off all credit card debt (we don't really have much) and then going on our cash system. We have already been TTC for 3 months.
4. What do you think will be the hardest one to accomplish (if you have more than one)?
Saving for a down payment...TTC is difficult though because you cannot control it.
5. What do you think will be your biggest obsticle in acheiving your goal(s)?
Student loan debt is coming up and that will take a lot out of our ability to save money.