December Monthly Goals & Year End Wrap Up: An Adventure of Curiosity and Personal Growth

Dear Adventure Avenue,

This year I made five goals that I hope to accomplish by 2022. Some of these goals are curiosity based, while others are geared towards self-growth or preservation. You can read more about them in this post. I did the best on my reading goal which isn’t surprising considering I love to read! I was also very happy with my money-making app results.

Goals

Track how much I actually make per month/per year using money making apps. Checkout this post to get the referral codes and links so you can follow along on this adventure.  

Checkout 51: starting $14.04 Current earnings $22.37+$21.94+$20.43+$6.53= $71.27. I was able to get a check (thrice!!) once I reached (and then surpassed) $20. I recommend cashing out as soon as you reach the $20 benchmark on this app because the check can take a couple of weeks to get to you.

Shopkick: starting 11 kicks ($1 = 250 kicks) Current earnings 5,460 kicks. I’m so close to a $25 gift card! I’m $3.16 away from my $25 giftcards or 790 kicks.

Swagbucks: starting 45 swagbucks ($1 = 100 swagbucks) Current earnings 500+79= 579 swagbucks. I reached 500 swagbucks, and received a message saying if I redeemed for a gift card in the next 14 days, I would get a bonus 75 points! I got a $5 Starbucks gift card!

Ibotta: starting $4.30 Current earnings $91.55. Ibotta is definitely the best app out there if you’re buying groceries.

Fetch Rewards: starting 3,215 points ($1 = 1,000 points) Current earnings 28,855 points. This is almost $30 dollars! I’ll cash this out for a $25 amazon gift card with 25,000 of my points.

In total, I made about $219 with these money-making apps!

2. Read 12 books throughout the year. That’s a book a month.

I accomplished this goal and read over 12 books!

I’m currently working on

I also started listening to audiobooks using my library card. So far I’ve read #Girlboss (because I watched the show on Netflix), Jenna Fisher’s book, The Actor’s Life,  The Undomestic Goddess, and Essentialism by Greg McKeown.

This month I finished listening to Atomic Habits by James Clear.

I created a “What I’m Reading” page if you want to see some books that I have read or am planning to read.

3. Create a Star Wars inspired quilt square once a month to create a Star Wars quilt in December or January of next year. 

I finished all 12 squares!

  • A Sequel Trilogy square with Rey and BB-8
  • A Mandalorian square with Grogu!
  • An Anakin and Padme square
  • A Darth Vader Imperial square
  • A Rogue One square
  • A Princess Leia and Rebel Alliance square
  • A droids square featuring R2-D2 and C-3PO
  • A Jedi Order square
  • A Ships square featuring a TIE fighter and the Millennium Falcon
  • Rebels with orange square (this orange reminded me of the orange flight suits)
  • Obi-wan vs Anakin “You were my brother Anakin. I loved you” and Vader’s Castle
  • Yoda quote: “Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force” and Luke quote: “No ones ever really gone”

4. Make 12 new recipes. 

While I ended up only making 10 new recipes, I did make some tried and true favorites – like my crepes – many a times!

5. Take one Mental Health Monday a week. 

I really liked this goal, but I didn’t measure it as well as I could have. I’ll be taking that into account when I create my goals for next year!

I wish everyone a Happy New Year! Stay tuned for my goals for 2022.

Sincerely,

A

PS

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