Day 10 AND 11 FTJ Bootcamp Activity

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Your Priority Assignment this weekend is to catch up with what I've already thrown your way.

There's a reason this is called a Boot Camp. We're definitely trying to make some big strides in a short period of time. However, I want to also ensure your success so I'll give you the weekend to catch up and regroup. Come Monday, we're going to be hitting some of the financial projects pretty hard once again... so be prepared!

So far, you should:
*Be on the second week of a 3-week spending freeze(CHECK!)
*Have a Net Worth Statement(CHECK!)
*Have started a Gratitude or "5 Things" Journal to track the positive things in your life on a daily basis(CHECK!)
*Have a Family Mission Statement(CHECK!)
*Have a list of 100 dreams and a working list of 25 goals for the year, broken down into manageable steps(CHECK!)
*Know what your current cost of living is based on the past six months expenses(Kinda CHECK! I got my spending report from my bank for the last 16 months. I need to sort through it and such)

As a fun BONUS ASSIGNMENT for those who are caught up or feeling especially ambitious, we're going to be creating Dream Boards or Vision Boards. If you're inside with kids today, have them create one too. You may get a kick out of what they add! I did this with my daughter last year, and most of her things came straight out of the toy catalogs we had around the house.

You can even create a FAMILY VISION BOARD based on your mission statement.

Bonus Assigmnment: Create a Vision Board

You can do this with a bulletin board or with a big piece of tagboard or cardboard. Your assignment is to take magazines, photographs, computer printouts, quotes, words, and other images that represent visions of what you would like to accomplish in your life and attach them to your board. If you want to go to Italy, cut out an image of Tuscany (or Milan, Venice, etc). If you want to develop better relationships with your siblings, include pictures of you together in happy times. If you'd like to read more, include pictures of the books you'd like to read, and so on.

If you don't have enought to work with at home already, you can frequently find old magazines in the magazine exchange area of your library for this. You can also create printouts of photographs, inspirational quotes and affirmation statements right on your computers.

Keep your board in a place that you see every day. I keep mine right by my computer. Some people keep images on their computer desktop and see them every time they boot up their computer in the morning. When you look at the images, allow yourself to really FEEL yourself accomplishing them. Let your emotion fuel the fire and truly MOTIVATE you.


*Good thing tomarrow to-do list just includes laundry! I have also added to catch up on FTJ projects!*

Day 9 FTJ Bootcamp Activity(1/9)

Calculate Your Cost Of Living

The step before creating a budget! The assignment is to go back 6 months, so I'll be working on this tonight or tomarow.

1/9/09 Recept

Starting Budget:240$
Left Of Budget: 105.42

Walmart 14.92$
Vitamin D Milk
(2) Gerber 2nd foods
Beechnut 2nd foods 2 pack
Propel 12 pk
Sams Club 24pk diet soda

Coupon Savings: 1$

Left Of Budget: 90.50$

Note! I had also bought a carseat, but it ended up it wasn't a rear facing one(my son is almost 8 months old) and I had looked online at walmart.com because I was going to return it and I still needed another one. Anyways, the SAME carseat was 139.99$ ONLINE but I had bought it at the store for 180$! RIPOFF!! At the bottom of walmart.com it had said that prices may be different from store to website, but 40$ is ridiculous! I'm glad it was the wrong one anyways. BLAH!!

1/6 Shopping Recipt

Starting Budget: 240$
Left Of budget:122.01$

Walmart $16.59
(5) Gerber 2nd foods- 1$each
(3)Gerber infant juice -1.94$ each
Hair gel 5.22$

saved in coupons- .75cents

left of budget $105.42

DAY 8 FTJ Bootcamp Activity

Plan a free or low-cost activity calender for the remaining weeks of FTJ bootcamp. Try to include things from your 100 dreams list!


This is a great topic/challange for my blog! Alot of my dreams are things I have available at home to do! Such as:

• Learning To Sew (I got a sewing machine for Christmas, and I've been picking up fabric as I go along since I knew I was getting it since July!)
• Finish My Sons 1st Year Scrapbook
• Finish my DS blankie(I'm crocheting it, and I have 2 things of yarn already...of course, purchased with a 50% off coupon from my local craft store)
• Have a reasonable grocery budget(I can work on finding coupons and making a menu plan)
• Recycle

I won't bore you with my entire list, but those are some of my ideas. Check out my mommysavers blog HERE!!

Day 7 FTJ Bootcamp Activity

Turning Goals Into Dreams-Pick top 25 goals to work for in 2009

• Categorize
• Assign Timelines
• Prioritize

Plan of Action

• Be Specific
• Identify Action Steps

This is lovely. :) I have 50 goals and I'm sure I'll add more as the year goes along. If interested in my goals, I will be making a blog on mommysavers for this as I don't find it to go along with my frugal blog.

Day 6 FTJ Bootcamp Activity(1/6)

Analyzing Your Dreams

What Do You Really Want?
Your dreams can provide some valuable personal insight. With each dream you’ve written down, ask yourself these questions:
• Why do you want it?
• What will it provide for you?
• Is this something that society says is important, or one that you personally value?
• Is it consistent with your values, as stated in your Family Mission Statement?
• Would you want this if nobody saw or heard about it?
• Do any of your goals contradict each other?

*oopsy...I'm a little behind, but I will be all caught up by the end of today.*