Continuing the tradition of the past 5 years, we have an end-of-the-year challenge.
Get it Done December and will run from December 1 to December 31.
The goal for Get it Done December is to clear out those lingering tasks that you thought you would get done in 2024 You must declare them and try to finish them before the year’s end.
You can also “extinguish” the task and guilt-free-ditch any resolutions or goals that simply couldn’t or didn’t happen this year. Let them go!
Examples of Get it Done December tasks:
Call up a friend that you haven’t checked in with much this year
You must establish your own rules about what you are trying to accomplish as your Get it Done December task(s) this month. State them in the first week of the month to get us kicked off.
Each weekend (starting December 7th) YOUR Local Time, you will report how you did on your challenge for the week on this thread. You can report where you’re at and what your biggest challenge and victories of the week were.
Who This Challenge is For
Anyone who wants a little public accountability and weekly discussion about their goals.
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
If you’re in to participate (or on the fence and need encouragement), comment below with your tasks for Get it Done December below
Update ‘hit by a bus’ folder so I won’t have to spend the night before surgery sending locations of all our accounts to a friend on husband’s behalf ever again
Put the above into a shared Google sheet (ditto)
Celebrate the fifth birthday of the best dogs in the world
Thank-you for starting this @Candygirl ! I have had my December freed up quite a bit. DD#2 has decided to come home for 2 hours late Christmas Eve. That means we aren’t going to my sister’s for the holidays, as she’s almost 3 hours out of town.
Sooo…
My goals are to:
cook and host the Scandinavian dinner and games night,
Work the community table at a craft fair,
finish sewing my original designed tote bags,
Finish machine quilting an appliqué quilt,
Finish a visual journal from a trip taken in 2017!
Finish spinning my multicoloured yarn.
Finish spinning some multicoloured blue yarn.
Finish Sketchbook Revival 2018, 2019 and 2020.
Anything after that is icing on the cake. I have quite a few unfinished projects.
Financial:
Sell shares
Donate more
Receipts to airline for reimbursement
Read tax book
Travel:
Logistics for Jan trip 1
Logistics for Jan trip 2
Lodging for Feb trip
Flights for March trip
Christmas:
Make picture book for niece 2
Crochet scarf for niece 1
Edit trip photos (2500+)
Decorate inside
Decorate outside
Bake yummy things
Find gifts for people
Write letter
This year’s goal will be a re-org / Purge of the kitchen.
When we moved in, we just kinda - unpacked everything to wherever. And, with four people using the kitchen, everyone has a different idea of where some things belong.
So Kitchen Goals:
Purge the cupboards
Install better organization (ie, there is one cupboard that has no shelves and is just a cavern - it needs - something)
Re-organize the pantry and adjust shelves to logical heights (previous owner Very Much liked consistency, and so every shelf is the same height throughout the kitchen. There is no where that anything ‘tall’ fits properly)
#2 tote bag of 6 completed. Need contrasting fabric for pockets in the next one. Skipping over it to tote bag #4, for which I have all the supplies and fabric needed.
Need to do this…starting with a couple things in progress that I need to finish up, cancelling two accounts I never use, but I’ll be adding more once I have time to sit down and think.
1.Mileage forms still this is hanging over my head but it’s so painful.
2. Submit resume for review to employment support place. I know I’m not job hunting but my friend told me it’s worth it to have it.
3. Christmas baking.
4. More decluttering.
All right, specifying a few more things. I’m sure I’ll think of other stuff I want to get done, and I have no how many I’ll get to, but I want to get these down before I forget them:
Close 2 unused accounts
Finish puzzle inventory
Finish outreach supply inventory
Rearrange storage to fit in new shelves
Get neighbor to finally take cinderblock shelves (probably a long shot)
Wrap/drop off non-Angel tree gifts
Wrap/figure out delivery method for parent/parent’s spouse gifts
Clean fridge (soap and scrubbing, the food is fine)
Inventory/clean out food storage supplies
Scrub down shower in spare bath
Hunt down dental/optometrist receipts and submit for FSA reimbursement
Fill out tax forms for local charities (which I send to the state, and then they send back, and then I have to submit again with my taxes, but whatever)
I have had my December freed up quite a bit. DD#2 has decided to come home for 2 hours late Christmas Eve. That means we aren’t going to my sister’s for the holidays, as she’s almost 3 hours out of town.