MONEY SAVING JARS!!

Mark and I really want to try and be better with our money this year, it is so easy when you have two incomes coming in to buy whatever ever you want within reason. However we have some huge financial goals we want to accomplish in these next two years and feel if we keep going the way we are going it won't happen. So I made some cute jars today to help control our spending. They are not perfect but I am happy with the outcome as I just did them on a whim with my own ideas.
Here are some fun pictures.


There is a Treat Jar and an Extra Funds Jar

There is a Movie Jar and a Clothes Jar


and a Date Night Jar

2011 GOALS!!!!

I am so excited for a new year and the idea of thinking of new goals to accomplish and achieve. This year I of course want to keep up with everything I did last year, but would like to add a few new goals to achieve and new ideas to try for the year. So hear it goes.

#1. The temple trip thing did not happen as much this year as I would have liked, so again to try and go to the temple at least 6 times this year or more would be ideal.

#2. I have a serious addiction to clothes shopping, especially when I lose 30 lbs in one year so this year I get a jar and in that jar I have $300 and that is all I get to spend on clothes for the year, plus an extra $150 if I can get to my goal weight by the end of May.

#3. My meals have become very routine lately, I need to try some new items or I am afraid my husband might find a new wife. So I am going to try a new meal every month. That would be 12 new meals to learn for the year. Hoping to try and learn 8 healthy ones and 4 really unique difficult ones. I will let you know how they go.

#4. This is my most challenging goal for the year and one I know I have needed to work on for a while, and of course not just for the year but for the rest of my life. I need to be kinder and more Christ like to others, not lots of others just certain people in particular. For some reason I really struggle with being loving and kind towards certain individuals, once I dislike someone I really dislike them. I know the only way to get through this is with the help of my Savior and Prayer.

#5. I am hoping to run in a 5KM race on January 1st, a 10KM race on March 12th,a half marathon in april, a super sprint Triathalon I think it is on May 2nd in Airdire, a sprint triathalon in Fort Macleod in August and my 5KM Climb of Hope Run in September.

I am looking forward to the new challenges and goals for 2011 and hope they will help make me a better person.