April 2012 Goals Update

Lets see how we did with our goals for the month of April:

Here are our 2012 Goals: (in no particular order)

1) To not eat out or at least to not pay out of pocket, with the exception of tips. If we want to treat the family to a meal out, we will make sure we have a gift card to cover all of us.
We did fabulous with this goal.

2) Pay off 2 credit cards
So excited, we paid off 1 credit card on 04/16/2012 and will have the 2nd credit card paid off in a few months:) ~ YEA!!!!!

3) Not to use any of our credit cards for 2012. To pay cash for everything.
We did great with this and used cash for our purchases in April.

4) To lower our grocery budget. Our current grocery budget is $400 month for our family of 6. Our goal is to lower that amount and to save the remainder.
We went over last month by about $0.88. We are working hard this month to stay below budget by having a pantry challenge.

5) To create a monthly meal plan for our family, to use leftovers more efficiently and to make use of everything in our pantry and freezer.
Doing great with this for April- use leftovers wisely and wasting less. With 4 boys, leftovers are not being left over as much.

6) Unclutter the house and become more organized:)
We will be blogging about a declutter challenge for this month.  Hopefully, that will help us declutter better.

7) Lose weight- I need to get motivated to lose this baby weight- my goal is to lose 20 lbs this year.
I have most motivation yet again.  Need to get into gear.

8) Morning devotions, prayer time and more bible reading
Doing great with this:)

9) Monthly date night with hubby- whether we go out or stay at home, pop popcorn and rent a movie
We did go out for dinner for our anniversary at Red Lobster.  It was yummy and we used a gift card to pay, so that the only cash we paid out of pocket was the tip:) 

10) To spend quality family time together. With everyones schedule and us running all over creation, I would love to spend more quality time together- no tv- us playing games, talking, enjoying each others company.
Not so great with this goal- will make more of an effort to make this happen.

11) Not to use our dryer to save on electricity and lower our electricity bill
Doing fabulous with this goal and when our electric bill came in it was $15 lower- YEA!!

12) To make a better effort to blog more regularly and to make a blogging schedule
Need to get better organized and actually make a blogging schedule and keep up with it.

13) To make much needed house repairs
Making a list of house repairs to do and hope to get started soon.

14) To fix the car that is sitting in our driveway so that whoever gets their drivers license first will have a car to drive or share if they both get their license at the same time
We are actually going to nix this goal as we are going to sell the car. My father is going to sell me my mom's van. It is too painful for him to have around the house, so we are not going to need the car after all. We soon will have 2 vans:)

15) To do 1 project a month and blog about it- will post the list of projects soon
We didn't get an opportunity to do our monthly project for April :(  We  hope to do it as well as May's project this month:)

How did you do with your goals last month?