Annnnddd the final challenge of the absolute sh*tshow that has been 2020 is:
Put out the Dumpster Fire December and will run from December 1 to December 31.
The goal for Put Out The Dumpster Fire December is to clear out those lingering tasks that you thought you would get done in 2020 (before 2020 turned into the giant mess that it is). You must declare them and try to get them done before the end of the year.
You can also choose to “extinguish” the task and guilt-free ditch any resolutions or goals that simply couldn’t or didn’t happen this year. Surviving 2020 is the only real goal you need!
Examples of Put Out The Dumpster Fire December tasks:
Call up a friend that you haven’t checked in with much this year
Cancel recurring subscriptions that you don’t use
It will have a special forum badge and even a STICKER for people that complete the whole month, that will be cat themed.
Basic rules:
You must establish your own rules about what you are trying to accomplish as your Dumpster Fire December task(s) this month. State them in the first week of the month to get us kicked off.
Each Sunday (starting December 6th) YOUR Local Time, you will report how you did on your challenge for the week on this thread . You can report on where you’re at, and what your biggest challenge and victories of the week were. Then, you’ll put your predictions/goals down for the week ahead.
Who This Challenge is For
Anyone who wants a little public accountability and discussion about their goals on a weekly basis.
What do you get out of participating?
Deep Satisfaction of working on those tasks that hang over your head and not bringing them into a new year
A community to support you as you get sh*t done
A CUTE forum badge for participating in the weekly check-ins
And if you do all 4 week check-ins, you get a STICKER mailed to you. I have only printed these for this challenge.
If you’re in to participate (or on the fence and need encouragement), comment below with your tasks for Put Out The Dumpster Fire December.
I need to do a bunch of car maintenance/snow tires/inspection/registration. Technically some of that isn’t an old task, but given I’m going to do it in a pandemic where I don’t really want a ride from the store or to wait in the waiting room I think it’ll be challenging enough.
Also I’d like to make curtains for my living room. I’ve wanted to do that since like February.
There are many dumpsters in my life right now, some more on fire than others. For this challenge I will focus on setting up our entryway/front closet for winter:
Find an appropriate number of hats/mittens/scarves for me and husband and find a good place to keep them accessible but organized
Remove non-winter shoes from boot tray
Put away lightweight coats that are too cold for winter
This may not seem like a big deal but we’re already running into issues with not being able to locate a pair of gloves or mittens when it’s time to leave for something.
Get my “for sale” stuff out of my apartment by Dec 31st or put on Buy Nothing. Will need to list on more sites.
Inventory all of my craft stuff.
Finally learn how to meal plan.
Take apart fans, clean blades, store in garbage bags.
I like this challenge. Since I’m not doing much in my current job but will be starting a new job in early February I need to figure out what domestic stuff I can kind of prep now. Food prep but also cleaning out random corners and … other stuff? I dunno.
One thing I will definitely ditch this year: cleaning out the storage unit. Been saying we need to do that for 10 years, and 2020 is not the fucking year. Going to quit feeling guilty about that.
Aside from that, I really don’t remember anything that I might have intended to do with the beginning of this year. Who was that person at the beginning of this year?
Oh, wait, one was to get my student loans forgiven under PSLF. I’ve done all of my parts, so it’s just a matter of whether the feds get their act together in December or not. But I’ll check with them regularly, and Maybe.
I’ll think about it and Report back with some goals.
I’m in, I have to check my Bingo card and see what I got left and anything else I was hoping to do/finish up this year. Here’s a couple things off the top of my head:
This is my office closet. It is an unholy mess. I have intended to organize it for many months. It mostly contains packing/mailing materials which I was going to recycle or give away except I was just informed I’m getting a new work Mac in the next couple months and no one knows the procedure for returning the old one. I hesitate to dump all of this if I am going to be responsible for shipping a $3k piece of equipment.
So I think at this point I just need to organize it all better? Ugh.
