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June Challenge Update
ACHIEVEMENTS:
So I’m half way through the June Challenge that I started this month. I’m really, really happy with how it’s all going. We’ve only eaten out twice this month, and both times we spent our spending money- none of our savings. In totally I think we’ve spent about $20 on takeaway.
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STRUGGLES:
The hardest thing for me has being going without my diet coke! And the fact that we keep seeing really nice resturaunts that we want to go to! We’re holding out till July though!
GOAL PROGRESS:
One of the goals of this challenge was to pay off our only credit card. It was $3500, and we used it to pay for our European holiday we’re going on in October. Two weeks in and we’ve paid it all off, which is FANTASTIC news for us. This has really spured us on to keep going too! We did up a budget of all the ‘extras’ we want to do on our tour, and extra expenses, as well as spending money, and have made a new goal. We want $6000 to take away with us to cover everything, and have a stack of spending money (this holday just keeps getting more and more expensive! I will let you know a bit more about what we’re doing later…).
THINGS THAT HAVE HELPED:
Because we’ve made this commitment to not eating out, we’ve decided that we don’t even have the option to eat out. Having this mindset has been EXTREMEMLY helpful, because there have been quite a few nights when I was not up to cooking dinner and it would have been easier to just eat take-out. If we don’t have time to cook dinner, then we’ve decided that we’re better off going without dinner at all. We haven’t had to do this yet, but we have had a few nights of an egg on toast, or a toasted sandwhich eaten on our way out the door!
Cup-a-soups have been our lunch time saviours. We have a bit of a stash in my draw at work, so any days when we would have normally had takeaway for lunch we have had those!
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If you’re doing the June Challenge with me, how it’s going so far for you??
Thanks for visiting my site again! keep checking back for more updates!
Tags: challenge, holiday, junechallenge, saving
Another (short) era over…
So far this month things are happening well.
At the beginning of the week I finished my Graduate Certificate at the University of New South Wales, and signed up to be RPL’d for a certificate IV in Frontline Management with a connection from work. And I’m also enrolling in a Cert IV Trainer and Assessor. Even though my Bachelor of Learning Management permits me to be a registered teacher I’m not qualified in the VET sector- hence the TAA. What’s another qualification, hey?!
I’m feeling a bit under-whelmed with finishing Uni. I was expecting to get sick or something. You know, because I’d be relaxing, taking my eye off the ball etc. But no, no sickness. I’m not sure if it’s because I’ve just transfered my intensity into other areas of my life (example: work, sewing etc), and I’ve kept up that intensity etc., or if I just actually wasn’t that stressed when I was doing Uni.
I have a feeling it’s the second one, which makes me pretty proud.
Seeing as this is my blog, I will the take the opportunity to brag on myself, because I feel like no one has fully appreciated what the last semester has been like for me. I mean, I’ve been working full time, in a management position, and doing Uni every night after work until all hours of the night. This, coupled with cooking, cleaning (abeit, not much of that went on…), and a stack of social functions we couldnt miss (birthdays etc), I am pretty gosh darn proud of myself! I even had time to post on here, catch up on some blogs (apologies to everyone I’ve been unreading… I’m catching up- slowly!), AND I’ve stayed current with my Creative 365 journey!
Anyway, rant over.
Speaking of my Creative 365 journey…Do you ever pop round to have a look what I’m up too?
I’ve not only been doing the creative things each day, but I’ve been uploading them too! It’s a miracle! Well, maybe not particularly a miracle.. probably more to do with the fact that I have just finished Uni!
I’m feeling pretty proud of the things I’ve created. I would love to have pop round here and tell me what you think. 
Summary of June's creative things... http://taliacarbis.tumblr.com/
You might also remember our June Challenge? I’m pleased to say that we’re right on track with that too. We’ve had a few nights of toasted sandwiches, that would have normally been Thai nights, and quite a few lunches which consisted of just cup-a-soups, but we’ve survived! I’m getting more organised, which is a good thing, and tomorrow will be our first check in to see how much we’ve saved so far!
I’ll post up a bit of a summary of this week’s menu (We’ve been eating lots of Jamie Oliver recipes), and next week’s menu in the next few days. In the mean time, go have a look at what I’ve been up too!
Tags: creative, creative365, jamieoliver, journey, junechallenge, qualifications, tumblr, Uni, Work
The June Challenge
Luke and I are young. We’re child, debt and semi-responsibility free (apart from the beautiful Miss P- but she has plenty of babysitters!). We both work, and if truth be told, we have plenty disposable income.
All this means that we eat out at resturaunts and lunch places. A lot. And by a lot I mean that some weeks we only eat 2 dinner meals at home, and have those two leftovers for lunch. Everything else we buy. :-S It’s a pretty sad state of affairs.
With a few hopeful things on the horizon for my 24th year (you’ll hear more about when I [finally] write up my 24 by 24), all of which costing heaps of money, we think we had better get saving!
I’m only telling you all this because it makes me feel incredibly guilty and irresponsible. Which makes me think it’s even more approporiate that we get into the June Challenge.
The June Challenge:
When: The month of June
What: No meals/snacks etc. to be eaten out. The only ‘food’ we can eat out is coffee (and only if we’re with friends), and groceries.
Why: 1. To save our dosh 2. To save our health 3. To save our fat from expanding.
As a bit of an encouragement, I request that you stand by me! Help me! Lord knows I need it. I shall post a bit of an update at the end of each week, and will try to include a menu plan as well. So your supportive comments would be most appreciated!!
Also, if you want to play along then you can add your post about it to the Linky Tool at the bottom of this post, and feel free to use the badge above if it fits your blog. I think together we can do this thing!!
In other news, my last assignment for this round of post-graduate study is due on Monday. I have one due on Friday, and two on Sunday. I am excited to have it all finished, and have a bit of a break before I do some unofficial learning for the rest of the year. If you’re interested in what I’ve been learning at all, or the conitnuation of my learning journey, you can find me over at Teaching Talia as well. Next week I will have some more letters to put after my name, and be one step closer to those two letters that go before…
