July 2014 Monthly Goals

Let's see how we did with our July 2014 goals:

 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.
Did fabulous with this.

2) Pay off 2 credit cards
Still working on this- getting closer than we were last month :)

3) Not to use any of our credit cards for 2014. To pay cash for everything.
We did fantastic with this goal and paid cash.

4) To maintain our grocery budget. Our current grocery budget is $400 month for our family of 6. Our goal is to use up to that amount to feed our family healthy nourishing meals.  If we are lucky enough to come under our monthly budget, we will save that amount.
We did ok in July and only went over by $29, which we were able to cover with May's leftover grocery money :)

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.  Try our hand at freezer cooking.
Doing great with meal planning.

6) Lose weight- I need to get motivated to lose this baby weight- my goal is to lose 10 lbs this year.
We really need to be more motivated with this goal.  Getting everything ready to move, we kind of lost sight of exercising and thanks to not watching what I ate, (I mean I always "watch" what I eat, I just didn't always make the healthiest decisions as to what I was putting in my mouth) I now need to lose 15 pounds.   I do not like the fact that it is easier to gain weight than to lose it.  Once we get settled into our new home, we plan to get more motivated to losing the weight we need to lose.

7) Morning devotions, prayer time and more bible reading
Following a bible reading on my church's website:)

8) Monthly date night with hubby- whether we go out or stay at home, pop popcorn and rent a movie
We didn't have a chance to do a date night.  We have a movie gift card, now we need to settle on a date :)


9) 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.  I think we are going to claim Saturday's as family fun day:)
The only thing we did in July as far as family fun time, unless you want to count cleaning and packing up the rental as family fun time, was our fabulous 4th of July.  Once we get settled, we need to do more outings.

10) Not to use our dryer to save on electricity and lower our electricity bill
Doing great with this and haven't not used the dryer.  I am loving this weather.  I hang the clothes up on clothes racks and next day they are dry:)

11) To do 1 project a month and blog about it
With everything going on, we didn't get a chance to do our monthly projects for a couple of months now :(

How did you do on your July goals?