Day Zero Project

Day Zero Project
(101 tasks in 1001 days!)
 

Start Date: February 22, 2013

End Date: November 20, 2015

The ones that are in italics are the ones that I am working on right now.

The ones that are crossed out are ones I have completed and will have the date I finished next to them if possible.

 

 

Family/Friends

1. Get pregnant & have a healthy baby (Feb. 28, 2014)

2. Mend a fractured relationship

3. Take a family photo in the same place every month for a year and turn it into a calendar

4. Get to know my neighbors better (New house summer 2014)

5. Send my mom flowers for no reason

6. Write hubby a love letter

7. Write a list of 101 reasons why I love my hubby, frame it, & give it to him on our anniversary

8. Reconnect with 5 friends whom I have lost touch

9. Play matchmaker for a friend

10. Take my parents out to dinner

11. Have 5 different couples over for dinner & games

For The Home/Crafting/Creative

12. Complete 4 little DIY home projects

13. Complete one major home improvement (A.C. Feb 2013)

14. Make a “year in pictures” album

15. Paint and decorate the spare bedroom in basement (WE MOVED!!)

16. Fix the blinds in our bedroom(WE MOVED!!)

17. Buy a sewing machine & learn how to use it

18. Make curtains for the basement bedrooms(WE MOVED!!)

19. Make a piece of clothing for myself

20. Find a personally inspirational quote & work it into a piece of art/home decor

21. Make something I’ve pinned on Pinterest

22. Join an existing book club or start my own

23. Get a pen pal (Rachele, also doing this for her Day Zero Project)

24. Learn how to make my own candles

25. Learn how to make my own Vitamin C serum or powder

26. Organize our storage room

27. Learn how to do the waterfall braid

28. Make a list of 20 things I like about myself

29. Ask 20 friends to suggest 1 book each & read them all

30. Write myself a letter to be read in 10 years from now

31. Make a list of 100 quotes that inspire me

32. Re-purpose something I purchase from a thrift store

33. Write 5 letters to 5 people who have changed my life

34. Learn how to knit of crochet

35. Spend an afternoon reading at the park

36. Print out all the pics from my phone & IG and make a photo album

37. Keep a “my day in 6 words” journal for 6 months

Finances

38. Go 1 week without buying anything

Giving Back

39. Buy coffee for the person behind me in the drive-through

40. Leave a 100% tip

41. Do 30 hours of community service just because I can

42. Buy a homeless person a meal

43. Go through all of my clothes and donate everything that I get rid of

44. Donate blood

45. Do a charity walk

46. Help raise money for a cause that will not benefit me in any way

47. Put change in someone’s expired parking meter

48. Smile at everyone I see for an entire day

49. Buy 10 food items for the sole purpose of donating them to a food bank

Travel/Fun

50. Jet Ski

51. Camp out in the backyard for a weekend

52. Update my passport with my married name, and use it at least once

53. Beat Travis at MarioKart

54. Do 5 geocaches

55. Plan a date night that requires no money

56. Stay at a bed & breakfast

57. Watch 26 movies I’ve never seen titled after each letter of the alphabet (A-Z)

58. Go snow shoeing

59. Go to Wisconsin Dells once when we are visiting hubby’s family in WI

60. Watch a film from the year of my birth

61. Build a snowman

62. Golf 9 holes without complaining or cursing

Random

63. Inspire someone else to do their own Day Zero Project

64. No FB/Twitter/IG for a week

65. Don’t say anything negative for one day

66. Don’t swear for a week

67. Purchase Yves Saint Laurent Lipstick in color 13 Peach Passion

68. Clean out all of my old stuff I have left at my parents’ house

69. Wear a dress or skirt once a week for a month

70. Buy 2 unique pieces of jewelry from Etsy

71. Be at least 5 minutes early for everything for a week

72. Complete a first aid course

73. Overcome a fear

74. Take a self-defense class

75. Eliminate unnecessary music from my iPod

76. Do not speak for an entire day, find another way to communicate

77. Say yes to something I would normally say no to

78. Have a blog giveaway

Exercise

79. Run a marathon

80. Do incline at least once per month for 6 months (WE MOVED!!)

81. Try 5 spinning classes

82. Try 5 Pilates classes

83. Run every day for 2 weeks

84. Be able to hold the crow pose in Yoga for 30 seconds

85. Attend enough Zumba classes to where I no longer look like a fool

Food and Entertaining

86. Try raw sushi

87. Plan a week of dinners and actually stick to the plan

88. Drink only water for 1 week

89. Learn to make Steak Diane without setting anything on fire

90. Bake homemade cookies for everyone on our street

91. Cook a meal for a large group of people

92. No fast food for a month (this includes Starbucks)

93. Take a formal cooking class

94. Go vegetarian for a week

Ongoing

95. Save $5 for every item completed to spend at the end of the 1001 days

96. Date night at least once per month for entire duration of project

97. Help a complete stranger once per month for entire duration of project

98. Quit using “like” as a verbal filler

99. When possible, blog & photography the tasks I complete

100. Make sure we have one big family event once per month for entire duration of project

Finish Line

101. Donate $5 to charity for every item not completed