New year Old Style resolutions...

*~*Pinky*~*

Great thread and so many fab ideas so far!

OK, my list for the year,

1. Organisation! Home paperwork and business paperwork - this will be the last time that I spend all of January getting my books completed in time for the tax return!
2. Meal planning to reduce monthly grocery spend to £450. Just started the GC so this total may change (hopefully down)
3. Batch cooking
4. Home-grown veggies. Nice gentle start this year, maybe just runner beans and strawberries?
5. Get on my bike, literally! Cheap, healthy family entertainment
6. Continue with the family meal time. DH started a new job this year and he is home by 5pm, it's been great to all eat together as a family (not really OS but very enjoyable)
7. Save to enable loan to be paid off early.

That's it for now :T

Westywoodpecker

1. As usual to loose weight
2. Start meal planning again
3. Use slow cooker more
4. Locate bread maker & actually use it
5. Be more organised with house work
6. Keep up with audits from work

kaze_2

My OS New Years Resolutions are

1. meal plan every week and stick to it
2. sign up to the grocery challenge to save money, seem to be spending way too much for 2 adults and a baby
3. keep a spending diary to work out where all the money goes
4. try and actually grow veg in the garden and do it properly this time (forgot to water plants last year and they all died)
5. get myself organised around the house, so don't spend all my spare time playing catch up.

Bitsy_Beans

My plans are this:
Start growing some veggies. Did some carrots this summer but as it was a terracotta pot I think they dried out too quickly and didn't grow as big. going to use plastic ones next time. Am also going to mark out a raised bed for my veggie patch and get that constructed.
Continue to meal plan and cook majority of stuff from scratch.
Eat when I am hungry and try and fit in some exercise (not particularly OS but still a goal nontheless!)
Try and fit in a FLYlady routine a bit more. Have started writing a to do list each evening so I can cross off my jobs as I've done them. Fallen off the wagon today though as with poorly toddler and poorly baby they've needed more TLC than normal.
Spend less. Am hoping to become childminder so income will drop from my current part time job. Need to start being more frugal with money. Need to convince my H of this too!

Good luck everyone for 2009!

Nitha

1) Never pay full price for any non-essential. Only pay full price for essentials when I know there are no other options.

2) Utilise reward cards/vouchers/baby clubs

3) Lose weight (without needing an expensive weight-loss club to help me)

4) Get more organised and in control

5) Above all - enjoy myself!!

rosieben

This is an interesting thread. Here's my list

Get back into my Flylady Baby Steps routines – its enough to keep the house looking loved and anything else I do will be a bonus!
Start a savings account for my (small) private pension and watch it add up!
Keep a record of all my spends, not just grocery
Declutter - ditch at least 40% of my ‘stuff’
Look into ebaying some of that 40%
Become less dependent on the pc by using my desk diary and a pen :rolleyes:
Write more letters
Grow vegetables and herbs – missed doing this last year as I moved house
Not strictly OS but I want to find a charity I can support

rosieben

Navsy_thesmurfette wrote: »

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I was wondering if knows what veggies i can grow indoors?
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Also does anyone have any tasty cheap vegetarian and fish recipes?
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It might be worth posting on the Gardening forum for your veg growing question and the main OS index is where you'll find all the various recipe collections

tinkerbelluk

I've been MIA for a couple of months and I must admit things have slipped considerably. There will be big changes in our house (and income) next year I'm pregnant with my first and having only recently started a job (thanks to a redundancy!) it means no maternity pay for the 6 months I plan to take off.

Like Essex-Girl mine are a mixture of OS & MSE generally, so my 09 Resolutions are:
1. Save enough to cover the mortgage for the 6 months I'm off
2. Take part in the Grocery Challenges
3. Get back into meal planning and start posting on the weekly thread
4. Look at getting the garden finally sorted and start a veg patch
5. Ebay all the stuff we don't want that's already sorted into boxes!
6. Get more of a routine going in the house for cleaning / ironing etc
7. Re-visit my to-do list (which is months out of date) make sure it's got everything on and start geting the tasks done!

Think that's all for now.

spendaholic

Good thread. :think:

1. Cook more meals from scratch, in batches to freeze.
2. USE the wool I already have to knit - don't buy any more
3. WEAR the clothes I already have - don't buy any more
4. Reduce weekly grocery bill from £30 to £25
5. Make more use of Shanks's pony and rely less on the car
6. Learn about alternative cleaning products and methods
7. DO SOMETHING with all the fat quarters I've collected
8. Bake more, including bread from scratch and not in the machine (don't like the machine taste)
(8a If successful, offer BM to a good home)
9. Investigate the possibility of a slow cooker
10. Enjoy the simple things in life.

MissB_2

Ooh! What an interesting thread.

1. Double my veg bed from last year (once I have the next 6 month contract fromthe LL)
2. Get hold of a second freezer so I can start to freeze more one-rabbit meals for when I'm on my own
3. Have a holiday (using the rebate from where I queried my council tax and won!)
4. EAT the things I grow - and GROW the thingsI want to eat. Carrots are already in andd I can't wait to start on my leeks and tats Round 2.
5. Stop buying 'bits' and work up a proper store cupbaord - though going OK so far, keep it up!
6. Get round to re-covering my dining chairs in te fabric I bought and complette the cross-stitch cushions for my sofa, even though the design is boring me rigid.
7. Stop 'borrowing from Peter to pay Paul'. Build up some kind of cash buffer for unexzpected things - both bad AND good!
8. Enjoy my garden more on nice evenings and go for more evening walks/cycle rides when it gets lighter.
9. Re-order my bedroom and study so that the bedroom is warmer and the study is more usable.
10. SAVE.

Let's see how I get on...
B
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