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Monday Accountability
1. How MM was your weekend?
2. Any progress toward goals?
3. In honor of Earth Day do you have a green tip to share?
Re: Monday Accountability
2. Staying the course with goals. I found out that my cola raise will start in a few weeks which will be a few extra bucks per pay.
3. Wine corks can be recycled. By me Whole Foods and Houlihan's restaurant are two places that will take them. I collect them in a dollar store cylinder vase and then take them in when convenient. Find our more at recork.org
2. Any progress toward goals? Well we paid off the credit card for our Norway flights and we're sending the money for the remainder of our trip so that's about it. Otherwise we're in major spending freeze mode until all this house stuff is done.
3. In honor of Earth Day do you have a green tip to share? Keep your reusable grocery bags in your car. I don't have kids so mine live on the floor behind my seat and I just grab a few whenever I go in for a shopping trip. I love my reusable bags because they fit more groceries and they are much much easier to carry. Once I unload the groceries I just make it a habit to stick the bags straight back into my car. Also, if you have a sewing machine, grocery sacks are incredibly easy to make yourself out of old sheets or other fabric.
2. Yes! H has a few months of billing now under his belt, and has his first training next month. We allocated $5,000 this week for retirement plus 15% social security tax. Our plan is to put all of his earnings we can into retirement accounts for him and me (I'm going to help orchestrate and facilitate his trainings) to keep as our tax liability as low as possible. Anything after the max will go toward the mortgage.
3. I keep things until they're no longer functional instead of buying new stuff with all the latest bells and whistles. If it's still works, why buy new?
2. The front steps are almost complete! I can't wait to use my front door again haha. We also ordered the carpet to redo the inside stairs and should have those done by early June.
3. We don't do anything special or unique in the "green" department. We recycle, we utilize reusable glass containers when possible, we walk instead of drive when possible, use rags instead of paper towels at home, and I'm usually a pretty big stickler about food waste, etc.
2. Any progress toward goals?
3. In honor of Earth Day do you have a green tip to share?
The biggest thing we're teaching the girls right now is to turn off the water when they're brushing their teeth and turn off lights when they leave rooms (they're already pros at recycling!).. small things to hopefully carry forward as they get older.
2. No-I have no paycheck this week and we're waiting for my state maternity benefits to kick in, so just treading water. We did get our dental reimbursement that will go to savings for now. We want to use some to do some long-procrastinated electric work, but we're still waiting to finalize bills from Sam's birth first, just in case.
3. Oh man, this is my job so I could go on for ages about this stuff. I'll go with bringing your expired medications to a drop box for disposal instead of flushing them. Some common medications are starting to show up in trace amounts in both drinking and ocean water. Also, mow your lawn to 3" or higher to allow deeper root growth and higher water infiltration, which is good for the water quality of downslope lakes or streams.
1. How MM was your weekend?
Very good! I had a doctor's appointment on Friday. Don't know the cost yet, but probably $200. Got take-out lunch after it for $25, but I had a gift card for that whole amount. That was it for the whole weekend.
2. Any progress toward goals?
Lots! Since our last Monday Accountability. I've paid down my 'cc debt by about $5K over the last month. But it just never comes down fast enough, does it, lol? My big goal at the moment is getting back below a 25% utilization. It will take me about 2-3 months to get there.
3. In honor of Earth Day do you have a green tip to share?
I do the typical recycling though, oddly enough, my area does not have glass recycling. But probably the biggest dent I make is always buying used cars and then drive them for years. It takes a tremendous amount of energy and oil to manufacture a car.
2. Not financially. We actually just took a chunk of cash out of our house account to get some landscaping done, but that's what we were saving for, so a goal is technically accomplished. We also hired someone to cut our grass this year. Grass cutting and yard work took an entire day for us once a week, so it's a cost I'm willing to pay to get a day back in the week. Time is valuable to us, especially since I only get one day off each week.
3. We unfortunately don't do much beyond the normal recycling, turning lights off, unplugging items when not in use, etc. We almost completely abolished plastic water bottles from our house, though. H only buys them now to take for his guys on range days.
2. We paid off the apartment rental charge for Paris and add $200 back to savings.
3. We do the regular stuff: recycling, reusable bags and water bottles, shutting off lights and water, etc.
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TTC Since January 2011 - We have bad spermIt's definitely a national thing- my employer just sent out information yesterday on it.
Saturday, April 29, is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. This 13th annual event was started in order to safely and properly dispose of expired or unused prescription drugs that may be lingering in your bathroom cabinets.
https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/drug_disposal/takeback/index.html
2 - I'd say this week has been pretty good for me. I think I booked 4 weddings since last Friday
3 - We do the basic things like recycle, turn off lights when not needed and turn water off when not being used.