{"id":2803,"date":"2011-04-29T07:27:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T13:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2011-04-30T09:48:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T15:48:38","slug":"progress-report-on-101-things-in-1001-days-april-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=2803","title":{"rendered":"progress report on 101 things in 1001 days (april 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Begin Date:\u00a0July 4, 2010<\/em>
\nEnd Date:\u00a0April 1, 2013
\nItems Completed:\u00a026
\nItems that will not be Completed: 2 <\/em><\/p>\n

I’m 25% done with this list! WOOHOO! (Tomorrow will be 300\/1001 days.)<\/p>\n

I finished 4 things in April 2011:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1) Visit the Museum of Russian Art<\/p>\n

2) Visit 20 new local restaurants\/bars (we finished this up with Prairie Alehouse and Ngon Bistro.)<\/em><\/p>\n

3)\u00a0Rebuild my itunes library, since i lost it in the great hard drive\/backup drive crash of 2010 (finding a couple mp3 cds, plus a few downloads, took care of everything Matt didn’t already have. hooray!)<\/em><\/p>\n

4) Build a potato-growing bin<\/p>\n

I added 1 thing to my ‘will not be completed’ list:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1) Spend only cash for a month and see if it affects my budget<\/p>\n

I started this with the best of intentions on April 1. I used foldin’ money for most everything for a while (including gas, which was really weird). It wasn’t difficult at all. I did use my American Express card at Costco, because I like getting the miles, and I just transferred money from my cash account to the card afterwards. I also bought a few things online, so I had to transfer money for that as well. Matt thinks that’s cheating, but my position on it is basically that I’m getting a way better value for my money by doing it that way, and I’m not actually using money I don’t have, because it’s being taken out of cash spending. Regardless, it’s true that I did not spend only cash this month.<\/em><\/p>\n

What I discovered by the first paycheck was that I actually spent more than usual, which was really surprising. I had the same amount of money to work with, and I figured I’d suddenly become more frugal because I don’t like using cash for purchases higher than $20 or so – I just use my debit card (which is effectively the same, I know). I didn’t really do anything out of the ordinary for the first half of the month that would cause me to spend more, either.<\/em><\/p>\n

By the time the last weekend of April rolled around and we were in LA, I’d given up on this completely. It was an interesting venture and I learned a couple things (mainly that I already function on a cash basis most of the time anyway, via my debit card\/spending account, and that sometimes it’s less advantageous to use cash, in the case of my AMEX card), but it doesn’t really fit into the way I do things. So I’m calling this one incomplete, as I don’t plan to attempt it again. That’s $50 more in my pocket anyway, right?<\/em><\/p>\n

Items currently in progress:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1) Get married (got my wedding dress, we sent our save-the-dates, and our website and registries<\/a> are up and running!)<\/em><\/p>\n

2) Lose 40 pounds\u00a0(15\/40)<\/em><\/p>\n

3) Do Project365 again (started 1\/1\/11:\u00a0photos here<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

4) Have date night with Matt once a month\u00a0(we had several date nights, actually!)<\/em><\/p>\n

5) Re-learn Spanish (we started classes on April 20)<\/em><\/p>\n

6) Finish my travel journals on runawaytruck.com within 60 days of getting home from a trip (posted san diego<\/a> and las vegas<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

7) Put $20 towards debt payoff for each completed task on this list, and $50 for each incomplete item ($80 for the 4 items in April, $50 for the one incomplete item: $620 total)<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s the full list.<\/a><\/p>\n

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