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February Goals Update, New March Goals And Colorado Pictures

Last Updated: BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 56 Comments

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Move To Fruita Colorado Pictures 2Hello everyone! Time for another life and goals update.

February was another great and crazy month for us. We moved to Colorado, we put our house on the market, and it was a great month for business.

Our new home looks great and it’s already starting to feel like a real home. It is a great feeling knowing that pretty much everything is done and now we can just start enjoying our new state.

Also, as I said earlier, our old house is on the market. We decided to list it for now and see what happens. If it doesn’t sell, then we plan renting it out until our neighborhood rebounds from the tanking that it has experienced lately.

We’ve had two showings so far, so I’m not sure what to think. I realize that it’s only been a little over a week so I guess we will see. Please wish us luck!

 

Our move to Colorado.

Our move to Colorado went well. The process was smooth and we are completely unpacked. Well, we left many things in boxes but they are all items that we don’t plan on unpacking until we find our forever home (such as photo albums).

It was nice just having to drive our cars and letting the moving company handle driving the truck. The weather was actually horrible the whole way through Colorado, with tons of snow and bad driving conditions. I honestly cannot imagine driving a moving truck through that, especially with the bumper to bumper traffic in the snowy mountains that we were stuck in for about 5 hours just trying to get from Denver to Vail (and we live in Fruita, so we still had much more to go).

Our experience with UPack was great. I know many of you asked me to update you on our move since you many of you were also possibly interested in using UPack.

From the person who dropped off our trailer at our home in Missouri, to when our moving trailer was picked up in Fruita after we were done unloading it, everyone was amazing. The supervisor for the hub here in Colorado even came to our house on his own time to greet us when the moving truck arrived! Everyone that I spoke with on the phone was wonderful, and I can honestly say it was the best customer service I believe I have ever received.

Everything went very smoothly and I highly recommend their service. We will definitely be using them for our future moves.

 

February Goals Update

  • Work out! Okay. I’m not sure whether this was a pass or fail. With all of the moving, I definitely got some workouts in that mainly included packing, unpacking, and moving boxes. That counts, right? We also did a somewhat hard canyon hike at Colorado National Monument, a short hike at the North Fruita Desert, and some rock climbing. I wasn’t consistent last month though, so that’s why I’m not saying it was a PASS.
  • Work ahead on MakingSenseofCents posts. FAIL. I did quite bad with this goal in February. I am back to where I normally am (just a few days ahead) due to moving and putting our house on the market.
  • Finish preparing our house for sale. PASS. Our house is on the market!
  • Move away. PASS. We live in Fruita, Colorado now! We have had some locals ask us why we moved here and most of them think we are crazy, so I’m hoping that’s not a bad sign.

 

February Goals Update and New March GoalsMarch Goals

  • Work out! We already signed up for a rock climbing gym membership in Grand Junction and we are excited about it. It has the tallest climbing walls in all of Colorado and tons of pros climb here. It’s a little intimidating though as everyone seems to be really good. We also plan on doing a few hikes each week as well, so I think reaching our work out goals each month will be easy.
  • Work ahead on Making Sense of Cents posts. Since I failed at this last month, one of my major goals this month is to get ahead. This month, I would like to get 2 to 3 weeks ahead with my beefier posts.
  • Finish our taxes. I haven’t started our taxes yet. For the most part, everything is organized though so it shouldn’t take too long to do.
  • Find health insurance. Nope, I haven’t done this yet. Our old health insurance plan is only valid in Missouri, so we need to find something here since we obviously cannot travel all the way to Missouri if something were to go wrong.
  • Make required home inspection changes to our house. Our old house in Missouri requires a city inspection before it can be sold and we had that completed last month. Our house didn’t pass for some small things that I guess the first home inspector didn’t catch when we bought our house in 2009 (because I know we didn’t change the items that failed). The things are all small, such as unused circuit breakers need to be labeled as “unused,” in the laundry room we have an overhanging light that has an outlet placed on it (that’s not allowed), and the smoke detector in the garage needs to be removed because it’s not needed. The things are small and seem a little ridiculous to me, but it needs to be done so we need to have someone go out to our house and make the changes.

What great things are going on in your life? How did you do in February? What is your main goal for March?

 

Below are pictures (all from my phone, sorry) from our new town that I took last month.

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About Michelle Schroeder-Gardner

Michelle is the founder of Making Sense of Cents, a blog about personal finance and traveling. She discusses how her business has evolved in her side income series. She paid off $40,000 in student loans by the age of 24 mainly due to her freelancing side hustles. Click here to learn more about starting a blog!

Comments

  3. Linda Moffitt says

    BEST Of Luck!!!! I Know what you are going through Enjoy your new Home/State It is Beautiful at least those pics are 🙂

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  7. Amy says

    Beautiful pictures!! Congratulations on getting settled. And, I certainly think hauling moving boxes counts as working out. 🙂

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  9. Robin @ The Thrifty Peach says

    They are actually requiring you to remove a smoke detector, even though it can’t hurt to have it there? That is bizarre!

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  10. Dawn says

    What breath taking views!
    I agree, those are some weird small things,I don’t remember that when we bought years ago. But 2 showings in one week is positive right? Crossing fingers for you to get it sold 🙂
    Feb had us rearranging budget for a car repair so I hope March will be more quiet!

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  13. Chonce says

    Great goals, and Colorado look beautiful! I need to work on getting more organized with writing projects and scheduling blog posts this month.

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  15. Dick Morrison says

    Hi, I am brand new to your list. Wow, from a lust/green area to a semi desert. As a Real Estate Broker I spent 14 years in Grand Junction and around Fruita (you have nothing but wild horses 10-20 (+)miles to your North). Palisade is the warm end of your valley….

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  16. Mindi @ Build Your Dream Body says

    Hi Michelle,

    Fairly new reader here. Beautiful photos!

    I’m inspired by you having paid off $40,000 in student loans by age 24! I have a few years on that number (gosh, makes me feel old! haha) and I’m working feverishly to pay off my own. Can’t wait to be done.

    I also struggle with getting ahead with my beefier blog posts. I think it’d relieve some stress if I could get a system in place to get it done.

    Good luck with your goals this month!

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  19. Emily @ Simple Cheap Mom says

    Those photos from your phone are gorgeous!

    Good luck with selling your own home. It looks like you guys had fixed it up well to sell, so I’m hoping that your buyer comes around soon.

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  20. Jason Butler says

    Moving boxes definitely counts as a work out in my book. I’m glad the move went great. February was excellent for me. Honestly I think this whole year will be good. I reached my eBay goal again. This month I plan to work harder on my affiliate sales and make some money with my niche site.

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  21. Michelle @ Modern Acupuncture says

    Gorgeous photos! Looks like the Fruita area is incredible. Those views! Glad to hear you’re settling in well. I have a friend who lives in Fort Collins and loves it. Not sure if you’re anywhere near there but I hear the sun shines almost every day! Jealous 🙂

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  23. Pamela Gurganus says

    What a wonderful update! Thank you for sharing! I’m glad your move went so easily, despite the weather and traffic. I’m also so glad to hear you had such an awesome experience with UPack! I do wish you the best in getting your other home sold. Those pictures are absolutely beautiful! I love Colorado and the mountains. I hope to return some day for a visit. There isn’t a whole lot new going on in our lives. February was a success for us in that we got our grocery bill down! That remains our goal for March.

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  26. nicole dziedzic says

    My goals for March involve some spring cleaning around the house, organize the garage, and to save some more money for our summer trip.

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  28. Jessica says

    Glad the move went smoothly and you are enjoying your new location. Your pictures look amazing! My best friend moved to Denver so checking out Colorado is on my to do list.

    I have a lot of things I’m working on this month, but I think my biggest goal is to complete our passport applications. I also really want to find some time to find a new theme for my blog since I’m still using a free one that is hard to customize.

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  30. Christy Peeples DuBois says

    I am completely exhausted from reading all you have done during February and into March so does that count as my workout for today?? I so wish.
    I have unused breaker things/places in my breaker box that aren’t used and aren’t labeled, for that matter the ones in use aren’t labeled either but my home hasn’t been through an inspection either. Those things do sound trivial but we do what we have to do.
    Your pictures are gorgeous! I haven’t bern to Colorado and it’s beautiful. I’m sure you will enjoy being there.
    Oh, you do need to take care of that medical insurance. I so hope you don’t need it but we never know from one minute to the next. And of course you already know this. Thanks for the update.

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