Goals 1st Update

Urban Girl with a Country Heart

Goals 1st Update

It’s been a few weeks sense I sat down and come up with my goals to work on to get me from an urban girl to be more self reliant. I have tried to keep my goals in mind each day but more than that I am trying to work towards meeting my goals. Did you set your goals yet?

Just to recap my goals & progress:

Goal# 1 Get Out Of Debt- Well, this is the goal that seems like I will never be able to meet. However, when I meet some of my other goals I think this goal will see much progress.

Goal # 2 Start A Start Pile- I am making pretty good progress on this one, I would say that my family has at least a 30 day supply of food, medical, personal items, and water supply.

Goal # 3 Start A Garden- This was a goal that Hubby & I felt was going to have to wait till we were more educated and had more money towards starting a garden. After much research it was going to be a pretty penny to get started with having to buy the supplies to make our raised garden beds, heirloom seeds, and composting worms.

Goal # 4 Start Composting- After some research, I found some classes on Compost, Water-Wise, & Rainwater Harvesting through my county service extension center, the class is free and they will give you a free composting bin, thermometer, and 55 gallon rain barrel. So I am signed up and I am so looking forward to learning new skills.

Goal # 5 Learning Different Ways To Store Food- I have learned and I must say getting much use out of my Food Saver, if you don’t have one I would suggest you get one. Also, I am using mason jars and Mylar bags. My biggest is food dehydration. I am up to about 18 quart jars for of food that is for long term storage.

Goal # 6 Learn Different Ways To Cook- I have been educating myself of different types of cooking; solar cooking is the one that I have been working on. I am in the middle of building a solar box oven where you cook with the sun. I will be doing a whole blog with pictures on this.

Goal # 7 De-clutter My Home- This one I knew was a big project, but I am happy to report I have been making great progress with the merge, purge, and organization of my home. I have to take baby steps on this because other wise I would get overwhelmed and give up.

Goal # 8 Learn Ways to Save Money- Saving money depends on how you look at this one, for me I have been couponing and stock piling things I need I have saved a great deal of money using coupons. If you wanna learn how to coupon I recommend www.southernsaver.com  She has some great videos that walk you through step by step on how to coupon to learn how to coupon effectively. So I feel like I am making great gains on this goal.

Goal # 9 Secure & Repair My Home Hubby and I have not made any progress in this area. We do have a list of things we would like to do and once again I think some of these things will fall into place once I get the home organized.

Goal # 10 Get Healthier We are trying to eat healthier and we will be making eye doctor appointments soon.

So in closing, I have some tips for those that want to make changes I say that you sit down and write down your goals. Understand that to meet your goals you will have to make baby steps and most importantly remember to be accountable but also rejoice in your progress no matter how small or big