The list - UPDATED AGAIN!

We are six whole months in to our year without and I think we are getting the hang of it.  That's not to say we aren't racking up the dollars to charity, more that we are becoming aware of what we are doing.  We are seeing these habits or things we've decided to do without as things we like to do, but aren't a necessity.

January - The Snooze Button

February - Swearing

March - A thing.  Get rid of one thing every day, all month.  It doesn't matter if it goes in the dumpster, to a friend, or in the Goodwill pile, as long as it goes.

April - Alcohol

May -  TV

June -  Make everything from scratch.  No store bought, prepared anything

July -  Repeat month.  Josh and I will be repeating the Snooze Button without...we are getting bad about it.  Originally this was spending money on anything that is not fresh food.

August - Originally this was meat.  I just found out that my protein levels are low, and I don't enjoy other sources of protein enough to get my levels up enough without  meat, so we've gotten rid of it.  This month we will do without spending money on anything that is not fresh food.

September - Complaining.

October - Coffee.  Tea is still allowed, I'm not a masochist.  Josh may restrict himself to one cup a day, coffee is an integral part of his morning routine, whereas I just really like it.  Updates on this as we get closer.

November - Chips and Sweets - neither of these seem overly difficult to me.  So, I'll combine them and see what happens. 

December - Popular Radio.  NPR and old time radio recordings from the library are still allowed, so is music.  This is purely in response to my annoyance this year with radio commercials.  Wendy's: "mozzerella-la-la" will never be a holiday tune.  But it will get stuck in my head.  Jerks.  And Fred Meyer's Snow Mom: you are Mrs. Foreman from that 70s show, stop pretending otherwise and giggling like the Mid-West version of the announcer for every BBQ sauce commercial (you know the ones where they want you to know their sauce is authentic so they hire a southern-middle-aged-black announcer to tell you all about it and then chuckle good naturedly?).  Grrrr!!  See September, and possibly February.