Which typically has 25 spaces, with one of those being a free space.
Create a BINGO card with up to 24 goals. 24 in 2024! Perfect!
This card can be digital or physical.
TOOLS
There are tools online where you can fill in a bingo card and have it randomize for you. I’ve been looking at this one, which allows you to randomize just column-by-column if you want. So you can have a column be a category of goals.
RULES
One card per person.
Goals on the board must be completed after January 1st 2024 and before January 1st 2025.
You can join/complete your cards at any time.
If something happens outside your control that makes it impossible/bad to complete a goal, change it. No restrictions, no hard feelings. Just don’t run a marathon with a broken foot because of this challenge, okay?
Please do not critique the goals of others and offer advice only if solicited.
Goal-Making Guidelines
Goals don’t all have to be huge. Be kind to yourself. Have fun. Put “pick my nose” and “pet the cat” in there with “get a new job” and “buy a house” if you want.
Consider that some goals like “don’t do x all year” or “do x every week for the whole year” can’t be officially finished until the end of the year. These aren’t prohibited, just keep in mind it could make getting BINGO before Dec. 31st harder.
Decided I am going to use the bingo to do a more fun monthly to-do list. Which am hoping will help me focus on my goals all year (Am not fabola at year-long things).
All right, setting up for 2024. Suspect the biggest issue (aside from remembering to update this in general) will be tracking the repeating tasks, but we’ll see how it goes.
Two items besides FREE are done since they’re kind of my starting tasks for the year
OK this is my first pass. The colors are sort of categories… green=I have to do something multiple times, blue=I have to reach out to someone else, etc. We’ll see how we do.
I came up with my 25 items. * items = something that was on my list last year as well.
[ ✓ ]
[ ✓ ] 1.Free
2.Move bed downstairs*
3.Move couch upstairs*
4.Decide on garage or storage shed
[ ✓ ] 5.List/measure windows which need to be replaced.
6.Replace at least 3 of the windows This is being done in Julywell, October?
[ ✓ ] 7.Get the house painted This is being done in JulyDone in Sept.
8.Stain, caulk, varnish downstairs floor*
9.Save 2400 So far, that I’m sure of $1,200 6/15Done sometime before 9/2024
10.Pay 75% or more of my SS against the mortgage This won’t happen, accountant wants 1/2 in an IRA
11.Baseboards/paint clean up finished downstairs*
12.Chair seats*
13.Rug spread out in attic*
[ ✓ ] 14.Last 5 boxes of store stock now in attic out* Done, date?
15.Grammar/sentence diagramming book work*
16.Learn to can, get a pressure canner
17.Make the “book boxes” you have materials set aside for, or ditch the supplies
18.Get rid of the box stacks in the house
19.Clothing cull ongoing
20.Unfinished project: frugality book ongoing
21.Unfinished project: chair seats*
22.Unfinished project: kitchen curtains*
23.Unfinished project: sheets*
24.Get rid of the remaining excess fabric ongoing
25.Get rid of the remaining excess beads ongoing
In February I made progress on things but didn’t finish anything. But today the fence was finally finished which has been on my bingo card for… 3 years?
Ongoing: clothing, bead, fabric excess has been being culled all year. NOT done yet 6/15. Or by 8/10.
Scheduled: Window measurements happened in March. Windows are being replaced and the house painted in July. August we hope?
Won’t Happen: 75% SS against mortgage, put into an IRA instead.
[✓] Save $2400 will be done as soon as I deposit the $ in my (separate) account. We’re paying me for the book cataloging. I’ve already had $400 in sales and I’ve deposited $1000 in June, so $1400 was already taken care of! Done
I didn’t know if removing the counter and/or the drawers under it were on my BINGO; they aren’t alas…
It doesn’t look like I even posted my sheet here, but I got a bingo in mid September! Of the remaining items going to the doctor is the one I’m most committed to making happen before the end of the year lol. Would love to visit NY friends but even though it’s not all that far, given everyone’s schedules it’s looking unlikely before next year.
