January Recap & February Goals
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Even though I didn’t blog about them, I had some low-key January goals in the back of my mind. I want to get back in a habit of measuring progress, so I made some monthly goals for February as well. Let’s recap January first:
Pay $500 to student loans – check! I paid $547.12 to them.
PR at Tink half – I can’t say this is a definite check since I don’t know my time. But I would guess I that did.
Only use my Disney fund while in LA – check! And I had a boatload left in it when I got back that I rolled over to my moving fund. (Goodbye, May trip home.) For the ultra-curious, this is what that budget ended up looked like:

Apply for 20 jobs – to be honest, I did a really bad job at tracking this, but I would estimate I applied for around 20.
Stick to the January Spending Freeze – overall, I think I did well with this. I only went clothes shopping once (at the Victoria’s Secret sale for some MUCH needed new bras and undies), and I bought a new gym bag. I had been searching for one that would fit my needs for months that wasn’t over $100, and I found a clearance bag at Marshall’s marked down to $29. I’m going to continue the freeze through February, along with this diet. And hopefully this time it will be a better freeze
February goals:
- Spend less than $220 on Pennsylvania trip
- Pay $450 to student loans
- Run 50 miles
- Go to restorative yoga regularly
- Run Wine Lovers under 35 minutes
- Do my knee and hip PT exercises five times a week
- Bring lunch four times a week
- Return gifts etc. that I’m not using
- Read two books
- 14 no spend days
- Do laundry every week
- Stick to my budget
- Improve work social media presence
It’s a short month, so we’ll go with that. How did January shake out for you?
I’m hoping to not spend 14 days of February too. Great goals! And also, great job on that food budget above. That’s impressive!