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New year Old Style resolutions...
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My resolutions are
Get my freezer empty and defrosted
Less food waste/more meal planning and try a new recipe each week
Look after myself alittle better
Save money when possible
Use mysupermarket more to get price comparisions0 -
Make a meal plan and stick to it.
Stop buying stuff I don't really need especially glossy magazines!!!
Finish all the crafty projects I have started.
Get a better work life balance.£180.00 in 'sistercas'fund
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Thanks for starting this thread. I have several OS-type New Year's resolutions:-
- To really work at having a decent veggie garden this year. I'd like to be able to feed us from it for days/weeks at a time.
- To use things up. I have a stockpile of "stuff": make-up, fabric, cross stitch stuff, wool, even cooking ingredients. As someone I know once said, "There's no point in saving things just in case the Queen drops in. Use it and enjoy it".
- To only buy yarn from a) charity shops or b) if it is less than £3/ball. Oh, and the yarn budget for 2012 will be £60 for the year. I am a knitter and have a huge stash. I've tried going "cold sheep" and not buying yarn and all that happens is that I'll be good for months and then go mad.
- To finish paying off the credit card debt, currently standing at £6,000. This will be harder than I originally thought because DH's job was terminated 10 days ago, so we're back down to just one income.
- To be tidy. I have the messy gene - I can put a pen on an empty table and it'll look like a bomb hit it in 2 minutes flat. I can't do neat but I can do tidy.
- To be more organised. No more forgetting things or procrastinating and putting off things that need to be done.
- To buy less than 12 items of clothing in 2012 (underwear, socks and stockings exempted). Ideally, I'd like to buy them from charity shops - I've had really good luck recently and scored 3 brand new suits for less than £10 each. (I have far too many clothes anyway, so need to wear some stuff until it wears out.)
- To lose another stone in weight. In 2012, I lost a stone. I still have one to go.
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To only buy yarn from a) charity shops or b) if it is less than £3/ball. Oh, and the yarn budget for 2012 will be £60 for the year. I am a knitter and have a huge stash. I've tried going "cold sheep" and not buying yarn and all that happens is that I'll be good for months and then go mad
I've found a way round that one, PipneyJane - four years ago I invested my yarn budget in an inexpensive second-hand spinning wheel & produce my own now! Fleece can often be picked up for free or very nearly so, & the actual making of the yarn is very calming & relaxing.
My OS resolutions are:
1) Eat our way through the contents of 2 freezers in January so I can defrost them & build the stocks up again slowly. I'm aiming only to buy fresh fruit, veg & milk - oh, and bread from the rather-excellent local bakers once a week. Don't want them to think we've forgotten them!
2) Blitz the house, bit by bit! 20 years of accumulated chaos & grime to sort out here. No more excuses...
3) Somehow lower my "working" hours to grow more, forage more & preserve more.
4) Actually finish my UFOs - including three quilts, of which the tops are finished, so they just need putting together - thus reducing the number of project bags cluttering the place up! :TAngie - GC Aug25: £374.16/£550 : 2025 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 26/68: (Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)0 -
I'm really looking forward to a fresh start in 2012 - this has been a busy year for us!
My OS plans for 2012 are as follows:
1) take my own packed lunch to work (have fallen into the habit of eating from the canteen - stodgy AND expensive!)
2) Work on developing a sealed pots (or maybe virtual sealed pots) system to manage our money in a style that saves up in advance for things thus saving us cash (e.g. pay car insurance up front etc).
3) Stick to the grocery challenge budget strictly!
4) Meal plan - we did this sporadically throughout 2011, but we need to make much more
5) Use boots points, vouchers etc to stock up on essentials where I can (e.g. shower gels!)
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1. To keep up with using all foods so they dont go in the bin.
2. To keep to one take away a month (should save a bit of money here)
3. To keep up with the house work and sort my bedroom as its a tip compared to the rest of .the houseThe best bargains are priceless!!!!!!!!!! :T :T :T0 -
I'm another who makes the 'don't make any resolutions' resolution but I hear you JackieO -
I really do have to stop buying food til my cupboards are (virtually) empty - I have food in there from 4 years ago!
Declutter - get rid of at least 2 items a day, more if possible, to car-boot, cs or throw away
Better arrange my cleaning. I don't have any particular order to my housework and keep promising myself I'll do rooms in rotation, but the lounge has to be done daily due to the furpets and I like to keep the kitchen and bathroom clean, so the bedrooms seem to get left out.
Make lists and stick to them
In other words, get organised.
It all sounds good but having managed the way I do for the past 45+ years, I wonder how long it'll last, if I even start0 -
Not really resolutions but i'm going to try to:
- Make soap
- Make wine
- Make mango chutney
- Do a journal everyday
- Maybe have chickens (though i want to get an 'eglu' to keep them in which is expensive so not sure if we can save up that much)
- Either go on a cooking course / cake decorating course (again depends on money)
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Just lost a long post so this isnt going to be as long!!
Resolutions:
1 Keep to grocery challange and menu plan
2 Do some more crafting and teach myself to crochet
3 Dont be so hard on myself
4 Go to bed earlier
5 Lose 5lbs a month for a few months (not sure how many months yet)
6 Pay off CC and OD
Earlier I found a new shiny new notebook so I will put all this in and keep track of it, so off to do that, have some tea and wee drink
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ive merged this with our OS resolutions thread. Good luck with yours!!!!
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