New Year Resolutions - Return to this thread December 2022

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Following on from our December 2020 resolutions thread this is your chance to set your intentions for 2022.
As with last year, things still feel unpredictable but hey if you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?
As always I’m taking some time to think and will come back and post mine in a couple of days but setting this up now as I know some people are posting updates already. I will go back and update mine from last year to, been really enjoying reading those who posted updates there already!
Who’s in??
As with last year, things still feel unpredictable but hey if you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?
As always I’m taking some time to think and will come back and post mine in a couple of days but setting this up now as I know some people are posting updates already. I will go back and update mine from last year to, been really enjoying reading those who posted updates there already!
Who’s in??
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I've started the 1p challenge (upwards), so currently have 6p in my pot. I'd like to keep that up all year.
Started overpaying the mortgage last year, after a loan had finished - I'd like to continue overpaying the same amount each month this year and have joined the MFit-T6 challenge on the mortgage free wannabe board.
Reclaim the spare bedroom, which has no bed in it and has become somewhat of a 'dumping ground'..
Buy some new furniture - more specifically a new sofa (we were bought the current one second hand 7 years ago) and a new bed (or at least a new mattress, the current one is well past replacing).
Get the garage roof and door sorted out.
Think that's enough to be going on with.
1) food diet to lose weight ( boring and predictable, I know)
2) money diet (I’ve become too accustomed to using my credit card and buying things I could do without - even though I pay it off each month)
3) continue paying my loan and overpay it as much as possible.
5) Continue decluttering and organising my home.
MFD: 30 March 2019
1 - I want to lose 10kg by end of June, I downloaded 2 apps and started to exercise and cut food portions and doing intermittent fasting.
2 - Read 1 book a month, I want to go to the library tomorrow and get some books.
I will add some more as I think of them.
#13 Save 12k in 2022, £12500 / £12,000
3-6 month emergency fund £10,000
House Downpayment £12500 / £20,000
I plan the following for 2022:
1. To do whatever is needed to continue to support my Mum (78) through the chemo treatment she started in March last year. It’s 13 cycles, we’re on no. 10 currently - there was a 6 week hiatus when there was a complication and she had to stop to get neurosurgery at the end of last summer, but hopefully the end is in sight…
3. Having had a life changing medical diagnosis towards the end of last year, I aim to make my own health needs more of a priority. It’s (currently) manageable, but needs focus and would be easy to lapse in the efforts needed to control - I can’t and won’t fail, I have too many people relying on me.
Bring it on!
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2022 (offset) YTD £875.00
1. To do whatever is needed to continue to support my Mum (78) through the chemo treatment she started in March last year. It’s 13 cycles, we’re on no. 10 currently - there was a 6 week hiatus when there was a complication and she had to stop to get neurosurgery at the end of last summer, but hopefully the end is in sight…
Well, Mum finished her treatment at the end of May (🎉) and is starting to look better and slowly regaining her sense of smell and taste, which I’m hoping means her appetite will improve as she lost entirely too much weight during the treatment.
I’m doing my best and, I hope, mainly succeeding 🤞🏻. I visit every week and am rearranging my hours at work to be able to provide childcare one day a week when my daughter goes back to work part time in the autumn. I will also be having my gorgeous granddaughter to sleep over fairly regularly so my daughter and son-in-law get a break 😊
3. Having had a life changing medical diagnosis towards the end of last year, I aim to make my own health needs more of a priority. It’s (currently) manageable, but needs focus and would be easy to lapse in the efforts needed to control - I can’t and won’t fail, I have too many people relying on me.
Well, this is largely done but far too much of the stuff is now cluttering up my sewing room (one of last year’s projects) which is now unusable for its intended purpose 😩
On track with this 🙂
Also on track with this 🙂
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2022 (offset) YTD £875.00
We've continued overpaying the mortgage, I calculate we're on track to pay it off by end of 2023 (unless I get fed up and raid other funds and just pay it off).
We got a new bed (cor I hadn't realised how expensive they are) and a new sofa (conversely this was cheaper than I expected).
Made a small dent on getting rid of some stuff from the spare room, but nowhere near being able to put a bed in it yet. And made no progress on the garage yet.