Anyone else deciding that their new year starts on Feb 1st?

Good morning everyone, happy St Bridget's day and Happy New Year!
Here's to a fresh start, hope everyone is successful in achieving their goals.
It's a beautiful, very sunny day where I am, there's definitely a Spring feel in the air. What a lovely day to begin anew 🙂

Sorry I missed this when you posted it! Thanks for the sympathy, people have been really nice as I have't even attempted to disguise it and it's been a bit of a conversation starter in shops and the like! I keep saying that I need to invent a more exotic story than 'binface'!

I will be 47 years young! Only 25 days to go now that we're officially into the first day of the month. Happy February!

I think it should be 25 March again

I used to have resolutions that started on the first day of the year that the temperature reached 18 degrees. That always feels like an optimistic day and had the advantage of taking you by surprise. Sometimes it wasn't until mid-April though.

Now I want to start sooner, so I go for the first day of the year that the sun is up by 7am, which this year appears to be 22nd February. Everything feels better in daylight. So I have another three weeks of wallowing and then - happy new year!

@Millytante I'm with you on the fresher, greener fragrances for spring. It feels like the perfect time to bring out my Versace Versense, Prada Iris and my all time favourite freshie Chanel No. 19.

Oh, and I think I'll finally take down the last of the Christmas fairy lights this weekend. I've enjoyed them this January.

It’s my younger daughter’s birthday on February 3rd so we have held over a chocolate advent calendar for her to start on 1.2.26, plus a cookie advent calendar that I bought for 70 per cent off in the John Lewis sale. I’m opening my M&S beauty advent calendar that has been put away since before Christmas. Our January has been challenging so we need all the treats we can get. OP, you can decide that your personal new year is starting on Candlemas, which I believe is February 2.

I was about to say this. Imbolc and St Brigid’s Day feel like special markers for women, plus as you say, since Spring iz sprung on Feb 1, you feel like green shoots are the general vibe.
(Every year at this time, without fail, I automatically turn away from wintery scents, anything ambery, and yearn for fresh rose, and green notes like lily of the valley, orange blossom, herbs and so on. It’s a flipping nuisance!)

I am. We had so much chocolate and party food in the freezer we knew we had to eat it now or we'd never be able to just have a bit.

Also a lot of house admin so not really feeling up for it. Also both a bit under the weather.

Chinese New Year will probably be the start (after celebrating with Chinese food!😂)

The big 60 :-) Had a rough year last year so i'm hoping things will start to turn a corner this year.

I have found my tribe ! Amen to a deferred NY - and like pp's, I feel I am in hibernation mode.
@WildFlowerBees @purpleflowersfordays yes ! resonates with my inner sense of the seasons. We cannot impose on them. It's almost as if I have winter in my bones even tho' I am not living it.
@DramaAlpaca I'm in !
It's funny (or co-inky dink ?) today I got an Amazon delivery of a heaping amount of fake daffodils - there are many amazing flowers here, absolutely blooming startling and gorgeous, but nothing like a tender daff. So they are dotted all about and make me smile.
@BethBynnag86 you have had a rotten time of it, thank goodness for snowdrops cheering you 💐

For several years now I’ve embraced Lunar New Year as my “New Year” start date.
I find Christmas exhausting.

There’s no point doing New Year’s resolutions on Jan 1st when the house is still full of nice food and drink.

I’m still wintering, I like to go with the seasons. I have never understood why New Year’s resolutions exist, in the depths of winter with dark mornings and early nights people pledge to be better versions of themselves. Do it when it’s warmer when it feels like the right time not because the calendar dictates it. Jan 1st is just another day like any other just a different digit at the end of the year.

I never make an effort to start anything in the new year, it’s depressing enough as it is, but then I tend to go with the flow anyway with these kinds of things.

I have made some changes already this year but not in resolutions kind of way, more in the it just kind of made sense to do it now.

i think the best time to start is when it suits you instead of tying yourself to a date.

Oh absolutely.January has been totally and utterly rubbish,what with various family illnesses,expensive things breaking, arrangements messed around and cancelled, losing about 50% of my hearing for two weeks- and so little sunshine!

Snowdrops in the garden today though,so a sign of hope ...

My New Year starts on the first Monday in March, or thereabouts. Until the calendars changed in 1752 New Year's Day was celebrated on Lady Day, 25th March. For me, around the equinox is the best time for change. I can stick to resolutions made in Spring and Autumn but January resolutions are a complete waste of time.

I like the idea of a 1st February New Year. January is a month that I endure rather than enjoy, so I'm in! I'll do Dry February to start with, I think.

I'm in Ireland and here 1st February is generally considered to be the first day of Spring, so it feels like a good time for a new start.

Yep. We literally had this conversation today. Dry January and healthy eating got lost. We will try again next month, at least its a short month

I think Chinese new year is a better time for it.