New Year resolutions. What, if any, are yours? Please tell...

To get my new house finished and move in before the new baby comes.
Please lord let this happen! Please?!
Also stop wasting money on things we don't need and save more so I don't have to go back to work after the arrival of said baby.
There. Easy!

yellow I salute you. I wish more people would make this resolution. DS birthday morning I knew we had between 3 and 14 out of the 20 invited coming.
So frustrating!

Lose weight (obviously)
Be more intentional about curriculum (we homeschool)
Get a food dehydrator
Stop buying bread
Try dairy kefir
Blog more regularly
Get 25% equity in house before may (so that we can let it out when we need to!)

Become a vegetarian
Lose 10kg or 10% of my body weight by my birthday (August)
Pay off a huge slab of my credit card
Buy an 3G iPad 2
Buy MOTH a new BBQ for Fathers Day
Start looking at Secondary Schools for DS for 2014

Less tv for the kids.

Mine is to be more organised and reliable. Realised this year that unreliable people are really bloody annoying when only 6 out of 14 people turned up at my birthday. And our house is permanently a tip and it makes us both mad and sad.

I see both as 2 sides of the same coin. And I really want to make them happen.

Also, to have more sex. ;)

Come out of hibernation!

Toulouse wait as ever........

Sorry Dubai, Moscow

Am going to food shop on-line so many friends do now and I hate shopping.

Spend less time on my iPhone and iPad and read books instead

I want to make more of an effort with my family and be a bit more considerate. I also want to be more assertive.

I would do the obligatory lose weight one but DC2 isn't due til the end of March.

I have a few things I would like to achieve in 2012

I would like to be more present, and with that I would like to reduce / come off my MH medication.

I would like to engage more with my family life - this is related to the above, It will be easier to do without my head being full of drugs.

anything else will be a bonus

am really looking forward to it.

I have taken up a friend on her dare - does that count as a resolution?

She dared me that I couldn't spend any money on clothes for myself in 2012! There are 4 main exceptions:

1. I can buy essentials, but only on a replace basis. Essentials are basically underwear!
2. I can make up the cost if I get a voucher for a shop.
3. I can shop in Charity Shops.
4. I can shop when abroad.

I am actually looking forward to doing it! Saving money and learning to discipline myself to save money.

Other resolutions include baking more and visiting more Charity shops! :o

Lose 1st
Be more adventurous with my make up as I have so many eyeshadows etc that aren't being used and collecting dust...

Well I made resolutions last year for the first time ever, I wrote them down and everything, the biggest one was don't fall in love. Broke that by the middle of January

Soooooooo this year I will make my resolution not to become a millionaire....

I need to do something different this year. I've got 1 year until I'm 30 so maybe a 30 things to do before I'm 30 list

Or something cheesy like that!

I AM giving up smoking (for the 25th year in a row )

This time next year I resolve to be more stylish than I am now and have more self-esteem. This will definitely involve shopping; it may involve counselling. I (and DH) will also start TTC DC2.
I agree with everyone else with the internet fannying - especially on phone in front of DC1!

oh, and to get to bed properly early at least twice weekly.

Eat less rubbish (recurring)
Spend less on rubbish - we really have all the stuff we can fit in the blooming house, so why I continue to buy stuff i do not know
Be more productive at work - less coffee and chat, less working late
Have finished decorating the bedroom by 2013
Have paid someone to sort out the bathroom by 2013

To stop fannying about on the internet (again)

My new years resolutions are as follows:

1. Extend my earplug wearing from just overnight to other times when I need to drown out annoying noise, such as my one-to-ones with my staff, quality time with my DH and any events that include the words "family" and/or "fun".

1. Overcome my lack of musical talent to write a catchy Christmas pop song that takes off in the charts and then is played ad-infinitum yearly to bring in a regular income. Bask in the knowledge that its pissing off millions of people at the same time as making me very rich.

1. Find a way to make a living from posting on Mumsnet so I can do my job without worrying about getting my ass fired for posting on Mumsnet.

I like to think of goals to achieve by the end of the year rather than resolutions to start the New Year with.

January is absolutely the wrong month to want to give up things you like - it's miserable enough as it is and we need our comfort things around us.

So instead of saying "I will start dieting/give up smoking/stop drinking on New Years Day" just say "I will lose x amount of weight, have given up smoking, reduced my drinking by the end of 2012".

You are much more likely to succeed.

pay off cc
save
loss weight, starting with cutting out choc