My Christmas decorations are all put away and the normal stuff is back in place.
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I put a great Dane – sized dog bed heater under a folded wool blanket on the couch, and now girl kitty is stretched full length and luxuriating in her sleep.
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I have 2 external battery packs for my phone - the older one stopped charging off of my chromebook (and only can charge off of USB, it doesn’t have an actual power cord). Since we are getting snow/ice/sleet/locusts today, I decided to charge up the new one, but then just for shits 'n grins tried plugging the old one into my work mac - and it is charging! Very very slowly, but it is not entirely dead.
Hopefully we don’t need it, but peace of mind is good.
Also, I got the last of the garden tomatoes canned last night (they were in the freezer). I actually have freezer space now! Or, I did, it was filled immediately with the batch cooking that I also did last night.
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Well now. Somehow in a crazy pandemic year I just got a 15k commission check? Plus the 6k one I got back in May. Apparently people stuck at home decided they wanted new kitchens. Lucky me when I had been hoping for another 8k.
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Makes sense. We redid ours in 2018 and I’ve been so, so grateful for that this year. And obviously you’ve done a great job at giving them amazing kitchens for that commission!
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I have crossed $50,000 net worth for the first time ever as of today.
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I gave away a stack of vinyl records and a bag of lemons to my friend!
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My watch tells me that I averaged 15,359 steps per day in 2020. Dang, that’s a lot of walking.
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Officially at 2 years of no drinking. (I’ll take sips of something my husband is having, but that happens one a month at most. No drinks of my own though).
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I don’t spreadsheet so I have no exact numbers (blasphemy around these parts, I know! Please let me stay!) but I looked up some numbers and I think my net worth went up about 50k this year. I will take it! I am not where I “should” be at 50, but between starting an IRA late and not choosing a high paying field, I’m pretty happy to have any net worth at all.
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I have the tiniest of victories, but I’m weirdly quite proud of this one:
I did not buy any toilet paper in 2020.
Story: when there was a shortage of TP starting in March, I looked at my stock. I’d replenished in December, thinking I was low. I wasn’t, actually, which meant I now had TP in abundance. It looked like it would be enough to last the year, so I figured why not test that theory. I finished the year with four rolls to spare:
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You won 2020.
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Thank you for understanding.
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Were you especially conservative with tp use to ensure this outcome?
Goal oriented me would make questionable choices to have an end of the year brag like this.
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Nope, normal usage. (I’m naturally frugal, both with $$ and with TP)
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Now go TP Mitchy’s house with the remaining 4 rolls?
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DO THIS.
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It’s 2021.
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Do you have an address? It’s probably not far from me. But I think I’ll go to bed instead, it being already January here.
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We are truly meant to be friends because SAME!
I realized it last week (that I hadn’t bought any TP in 2020). I re-upped with Costco in Dec 2019 when they gave me an incentive coupon for a free set of Kirkland TP and Kirkland paper towels. I wasn’t entirely out when 2020 started, and let’s say I have far more than 4 rolls left.
[Caveat - I did buy TP at Costco once this year for a friend who was stuck during the great TP shortage & asked if I would pick it up for her if I saw any. Which I did.]
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