2025 New Years Resolutions, how many will you attempt ?

Muddy_Walker

I tend to think I can do Everything and All the Things ….. but I can’t. (Blummin stupid rare cancer) So I think this year will be much more decluttering much less social media and a bit more pacing myself.

PipneyJane

Sorry for your loss, @YorksLass.  Big hugs to you.

I’ve signed up for the 25-in-2025 Challenge but essentially my resolutions boil down to living well, developing good habits and recovering financially from an horrendous 2024 spent fighting lymphoma - and winning! -  living on statutory sick pay, and not doing very much at all.

Happy New Year all.  May your 2025 be full of blessings.

- Pip 

Wraithlady

I don't tend to do NY resolutions, but I'll do Intentions:

I intend to use my new craft room - make more of my own clothes/jewellery and actually do my crafts.
I intend to exercise more - now I actually have room to do so
I intend to save more - pension age is coming up and I'd like to build up a nice nest egg now that the expenses of moving are out of the way.
I intend to actually do some pressure canning, so takeaways are less appealing when I can't be bothered to cook.
I intend to have a proper go at learning watercolours - I know I'll never be very good, but I'd like to get at least passably competent.

Think that will do !

Florenceem

Wraithlady  I like the idea of intentions.

weenancyinAmerica

@DundeeDoll - if you are naturally lazy, I am a downright sloth. You accomplished more than almost anyone on this sight last year. I am impressed by the fact that you were able to complete you 24 for 24. 

@PipneyJane - I am so glad you were able to bet the lymphoma. You have been an inspiration on the Fashion on the Ration and the Grocery Challenge sights especially.

@Muddy_Walker, @Florenceem, and @YorksLass - hugs for you and all that you have gone through this last year. 

@Wraithlady - My intention is to make it through the year without giving up completely or strangling the roommates. I made a list of what I needed to do this year and completed almost nothing on the list. I'd like to become a hermit this year but it won't work yet. 

Take care in the wild weather heading your way everyone.

Muddy_Walker

Yorklass great big cwtches xxxxxx

Am currently wide awake not having slept much - hot then cold then hot grrrrr. 

We are supposed to be getting snow today! No sign of it yet - I’m like a big kid with snow and the dogs love it 😊 

Stay safe and warm xx

Nelliegrace

2025.
We have agreed on,

Not buying new clothes this year.
No new shoes.
Decluttering.
Avoiding Ultra Processed Food.

London_1

Yorklass my condolences to you honey.it is a year of' firsts' which you will get through even though at times you may think its hard. Coming to terms with it (I had to 21 years ago,  and its never been easy ) I still miss him as we were lucky enough to have 40 years together.

Grief is a bit akin to breaking a leg at times ,you feel like you will never walk properly again, but you will.
You will at times limp a bit when things get hard, but the sun will shine and you will learn to smile once more.Big hugs honey and my best wishes to you for 2025. I used to get cross with the daftest things ,trying to open a jar with reduced movement in my right arm, or fixing something that broke would make me so angry that he had gone as he had been part of my life for two thirds of it. But you don't 'get over it' as folk like to say, you just learn to adjust to a different way of living.

There are some great 'intentions' on here which I think are probably easier to manage than resolutions.  

One of my grandsons is intending to do 'Dry January' and as he works in the city, normally Friday nights are when him and his colleagues relax in the pub.

 I texted him last night and bless him he said he had gone home instead of the pub and was working out his finances for his forthcoming holiday in April (hence the dry January. Finance is his job as a banker and city boy, but bless him he has stuck to his guns and has done a non pub Friday night  i am also doing my yearly budgets at the moment and shuffling stuff around for the best returns:) 

I keep seeing in the media how folk are hanging onto their cash which I think is eminently sensible at the moment. I went to my nearest big town on the IoW of Newport yesterday to look at the sales and came home with a jumper for £7.00 and a new squeegee think for my en suite shower, lashed out a whole £8.50 altogether.
 I just didn't see anything I needed so tucked my purse away and got on the bus home again (free bus pass is cheaper than petrol )

 I have to take my car in next week for its first service so I expect that will be a few bob, but as I've not done a great deal of driving in it since moving here I would think there is not a lot needs doing to it Fingers crossed anyway . its so much easier to hop on a bus at the bottom of the road which takes me into Ryde town centre and costs nothing than drive in and try to find parking. 

The snowdrops are up in the garden and I shall be looking with my DD towards planning out out new garden The bulbs went in in the autumn but I want to see what comes up before we work out the garden plan.

Knitting is back on the go and I enjoy listening to the wireless instead of watching tv during the day, I'm slowly sorting out stuff to go to the charity shop that I no longer need or use. so some decluttering and now the builders have finished my sitting room is looking a lot more to my taste.My DD and her OH have the big sitting room and mine is smaller but nice and cosy and it suits me as its less to clean I now can please myself and don't need to worry if things go wrong in the house as my son-in -law is there bless him to fix odds and ends .

A lot of you have had an awful year last year, and I do hope this fresh new year will be a healthier and happier one for us all

Onwards and upwards chums 

JackieO xx

YorksLass

Thank you all for your condolences and kind words.  Xmas and New Year passed without any major meltdowns and now I'm planning for the year ahead.

On the practical side, there's still some Sadmin to be finalised.  I need to revisit my budget and am waiting to hear about my application for Pension Credit although I gather there is quite a backlog, thanks to the withdrawal of the WHA.  Council Tax and Water Bill have already been sorted so I know where I stand with those at least.  I always managed the household budget so that's not a new-to-me task, other than making sure the figures are right for changed circumstances with a reduced income.

I enjoy my own company, have many hobbies and interests, as well as good support from our DS when I need it but I do recognise the need for some contact with others, hence the coffee morning idea as a starting point.  It's a local organisation run by volunteers to support older people in the area and it might sound daft when I say I thought "but I'm not old".  Well, at 75 maybe I am!  Anyway, I can always give it a try and don't have to go again if I don't enjoy it.  Once the weather improves I'll be using my bus pass to have occasional days out at local market towns.

@London_1 - I had to smile at your mention of opening jars.  I've cracked that one but sharpening the carving knife is a new one to me as that was always DH's job.  I'm learning and so far all fingers are still intact!

We never know what the future holds but I'm hoping for a kinder year for us all and shall be focusing on the positives, no matter how small.  XX

Suffolksue

YorksLass if you have a branch of the u3a near you you will find yourself mid age range ! 

Most have lots of interest groups and a monthly main meeting with a speaker ,
they have been a lifesaver to me since my DH died in 2021 ,
I’m 75 too !