Are you making one? Do you think you can stick to it? What would you like to be able to do, but know you're too weak-willed?

I still smoke (un)socially and really want to stop completely. I'll give it a go, but I've got very little will power.

I dont actually make New Years Resolutions ..... but there are a couple of things that i need to do in 2006 - does that count ?

I need to source a dentist as i am 6 months overdue for a checkup. I also need to get Mr.B to build some wardrobes.

I don't do new year's resolutions, either, but hey, if you can make them on behalf of your husband then woohoooo!!!! :w00t:

I shall be ensuring that my contributions to message boards next year are significantly less saccharin.

I shall be ensuring that my contributions to message boards next year are significantly less saccharin.

:w00t: :eek: :laugh:

I'll be making the same ones as every year, lose weight, stop smoking blah, blah. Might as well make another one not to stick to them cos that's what happens :)

Yeah...mine is to try and save some money....ha ha..laughing even as i type that.
And then just to keep on rockin' in the free world!

I don't make them cuz I break them and get depressed. I have some "Goals" I will try to accomplish...totally different you see, from resolutions!!:laugh:


Groucho, we will miss your treacle laced posting in lieu of the harder, no nonsense posting to come.:huh:

Groucho, we will miss your treacle laced posting in lieu of the harder, no nonsense posting to come.:huh:

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Get fitter by going to the gym more often and swimming a lot more.
Losing the holiday weight which I will undoubtedly put on over the festive period.

I make the same resolution every year

Not to make any resolutions!!

I shall be ensuring that my contributions to message boards next year are significantly less saccharin.

...but please keep the hat. It suits you so.

:thumbsup:

Well last year's resolution failed miserably .... for a change! :laugh:

I promised to only keep fruit in the fruit bowl. I can reveal that the contents of my fruit bowl at present are: a pair of gloves, a reel of sellotape, a hair clip, a tape measure, a pritt stick, an empty paracetomol packet and a five pence piece! .... no sign of any fruit not even a mouldy grape!

clueless colonial question: what's a pritt stick???:huh:

It's clean and quick, the original solid stick adhesive for paper and card. Washable, non-toxic and safe - and all for only a coule of pounds!

It's clean and quick, the original solid stick adhesive for paper and card. Washable, non-toxic and safe - and all for only a coule of pounds!


... and my one incorportes glitter too! (not that I'm boasting! ... oh what the heck of course I'm boasting!)

I suspect if I search back over the Xmas threads here I will find that my new year resolutions either don't exist - or I don't beleive in them!!

This year I have two - yee gads!!

1] I want to learn to sing properly [when I say properly I mean in tune]

and

2] I want to re-start my riding career with the intention of hunting on Boxing Day 2006.

I always think of what I might like to do during the coming year...the usual 'Get Fitter' leaps up every time...but alas I have the will power that snaps quicker that a frozen spiders web when bumped by an elephants bum! :unsure:

I do plan to write more this year....finish my novel and stuff so that'll do for now!

I don't normally do them, but I have decided that I have not had many goals in the last five years and i need to feel a sense of achievement.

1) Eat more fish. And I'm not buying the frozen or tinned stuff either, I'm going to learn to cook it myself and I have my first recipe

2) I am going to lose body fat and get my % below 30 by Easter and try 27 by summer,

3) This is the hardest. I'm going to try go minimalist. I find it really hard to let go of things, I still have my wrist band from a hospital op when I was four and all the get well cards, I have every single birthday card from my mum and dad and quite a few Christmas cards. Every card and poem that my boyfriend ever wrote for me, these take up two huge boxes. I still have all my notes from college and university cos I keep thinking they will come in useful not to mention all the books. These take up half my spare room
I've made steady progress over the years, I used to have every single birthday card I ever got from a family member, then I got rid of the aunts uncles and cousins and then brothers and sisters and now I'm left with the parents and boyfriend and I don't think I can part with them.
I used to have all my schoolbooks too but I got rid of those a few years ago and the big class timetable that used to be on the wall at school, our form tutor gave it to me and I kept it for years!

If I can do 2 out of three and make a bit of effort on 3 it will be something.
Sometimes you need someone else to take it out of your hands. When I went travelling a few years ago I left a suitcase with a friend containing all the T shirts and programmes from all the rock concerts we'd ever been to and most of my fancy, outrageous outfits. They were some right belting memories in that case. A week before I came back she split up with her boyfriend and he chucked her out, she forgot about my case in the attic and he thought it was hers and gave it to a charity shop doing the houses. I never saw it again.

I want to go minimalist because I like the idea of taking off at a moment’s notice and not having to worry about where to put things

What's your address Bob? I'll send round those "Life Laundry" TV folks. They'll prise all your treasures out of your hands and make you stand and watch as they pulverise them in the crusher.

I want someone to do that with my 4 wardrobes of clothes that I either can't wear cos they're too small or don't wear cos I don't go anywhere much and tend to stick to my old comfort clothes.

I do try to clear them out but keep telling myself that I will slim into that and I will turn up this and that I've never worn that so it's a waste to throw it out, etc. etc. When my Welsh sis-in-law stayed with us back in November she threw out 4 big sacks of clothes but I am still driving round with them in the boot of my car :blush: Can't quite bring myself to take them to the Charity Shop. The daft thing is that I haven't missed any of them so I obviously didn't need them.

Maybe I'll do a boot sale with them when the weather warms up a bit :laugh:

I refuse tomake any resolutions but if forced I'd have to plump for winning the lottery (not just the tenner I've grown so unused to of late) !!!!!!:goof: :

Last year my resolution was to stop smoking which amazingly i managed to do!

This year its to lose all the weight i put on when i stopped smoking :cry: