There are 84 days left in this decade. AIBU to ask what you are going to do with them???

[Fruitbatdancer]

After a shitty few months with health issues of several dear friends and relatives, I feel like I need to make my mark on the decade. What can I do to shake things up or just generally be more awesome?! I don’t want the usual grim stuff about eating well and drinking less. Although if toyed with “not drinking gin till the next decade” We have 84 days people, let’s change the world! AIBU? Help me?

readingismycardio congratulations! but you realise how selfish it is to have a birthday in December? people haven't got the money or time for that schizzle

elprup November is when I do this

Well that's a horrifying thought. Thanks for pointing it out 😂😂

I like the idea of random acts of kindness. I’m also thinking about walking a mile a day- 83 miles now! (I am unfit! This would be a big deal!)
Love how this also became a ‘it’s not the end of the decade, um yes, it is!
to all those who’ve had a shit one. Onwards and upwards!

Surely the end of 2020 is end of decade?

My children are going on a little uk break with my parents during the half term so I’m redecorating my living room while they’re away/having new carpets fitted/ having new blinds fitted

I’m turning 30 in November so I guess I’ll be doing something special for that.

Big changes to my life too: My partner is moving out in the next few weeks so I’m looking forward to not dealing with all of the drama he brings in to my life. I’m looking forward to starting my 30s with a clean, fresh slate and being able to focus on me and my 4 children. My partner has an ex and a child from that relationship, and I’m looking forward to not having to deal with any stepfamily issues anymore.

These next few months will be focused on the beginning of a new era and me reinventing my life and making my children’s lives better. Roll on my 30s! I’m stronger, wiser and feistier than ever after everything my 20s has taught me.

2much no, e.g 1999 was the end of the 90s and millenium!

I suspect a few people will be arguing over the next 84 days as to whether it is the end of the decade or not!

I think we've established that technically it isn't but culturally it is

Great - thanks Noone!

flouncyfanny

I agreee, culturally it is., People talk about the roaring 20s (the last 20s) and I think there was a term for the 1890s, gay 90s?

For me the last ten years have just shot by. No particular plans for between now and the end of the year. I just looked at Oct 2009 diary aims for the month - my oldest daughter had just started her first law job and the other 4 children were in full time education, the second daughter was applying for law jobs , and my mortgage was £1.2m. Now only 2 children are in education the two at university and others all in work and until Christmas I have the house to myself which is a nice change after 30 years.

What is the next decade named? Surely not the Roaring Twenties - that’s been done in living memory ( not mine I hasten to add ).

I've had a busy decade. At the start I had just left uni and started working. Now I am married, 2 kids, own a house, progressed in my career (unlikely to progress much further as reached a bit of a ceiling). I return from maternity leave mid-Dec so using the final days to lose the rest of the baby weight, enjoy the time away from work and hopefully sort out DS's sleeping so I can enter the next decade less zombie like. Basically I am hoping to be a healthier, functioning human being by 2020.

Cuddle my kids and be eternally grateful for them both

PMSL! The end of the 2010s is the 31st of December 2019!

But there are always going to be a few people who insist the end of the 2010s is the end of 2020... Like some said the end of the 1990s (and the end of the millennium) was 31st December 2000. (No, it was 31st December 1999!)

What's wrong with people?! Are they that clueless and uneducated that they seriously believe this???

Do they also count each month as 28 days and believe a year has 13 months? Coz I used to know a woman who swore on her LIFE that there was 13 months in a year, even when presented with concrete evidence to the contrary. JUST because she got paid 4 weekly. Mad cow. Obviously didn't listen at school then.

We've had the flat-earthers, the climate change deniers, and the moon landing disbelievers, (this past few years,) and now we have the 'this decade doesn't end til 31st December 2020' fruitloops. Had to deal with this at the end of 1999 AND 2009!

LOL, I can't believe people are that daft and clueless. Seriously, how can they believe this?

Funnily enough, I don't recall people arguing the point at the end of the 1970s or 1980s. Everyone agreed that the end of the 1970s was 31st December 1979, and the end of the 1980s was 31st December 1989. But at the end of the 1990s AND the noughties AND the end of the twenty-tens here, we have a few people insisting the end of the decade is a year later..

Also it's the twenty-tens, not the twenty-teens. Has anyone ever said the nineteen-teens, to describe the period between 1st January 1910, and 31st December 1919??? NO - it's the nineteen-tens! Also, you say thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones. Not thousands, hundred, teens, and ones. Ergo: this decade we are in (and almost out of) is the twenty-tens.

For your reading pleasure...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s

Yep, it's from wikipedia, but you can look ANYwhere else, and you will get the same information, and confirmation that this decade we're in now is the 2010s, and that it ends on 31st December 2019 - NOT 31st December 2020!

You're welcome. Now leave your homework on my desk on your way out.

As for me?? Nothing's going to change for me in 2020. Nothing much different has happened for a quarter century, so I don't expect anything to change when Big Ben strikes twelve at midnight on 31st December 2019/1st January 2020. I am making no resolutions either, as I never stick to them. HEY maybe I will make a resolution to not stick to any resolutions. THAT one I will definitely keep.

You've got enough time to get on a train and be arrested for Extinction Rebellion if you want a big statement decade ending. :-)

HEY maybe I will make a resolution to not stick to any resolutions. THAT one I will definitely keep

How?

Another one who hadn't thought of it that way! That has terrified me slightly. Ha.

I'm going to continue to recover after my grisly divorce, and stress-related illness is going to get better.

I will continue to make new, powerful honest friendships with people- I'm loving this part of my new life.

I will continue in my developing career after ditching teaching (hooray)
I will continue to make positive choices for myself and AVOID AVOID AVOID any kind of relationship.

clinging to survival like every other day tbh

Interesting that this will be the start of a new decade - and it's the start of a new life stage for me, really.

After a stressful few years juggling being the mum of a teenager, caring for elderly parents, work and a new puppy to the mix I am moving to having a lot more time for myself.

Sadly my DF died earlier this year but my DM is now settled in a lovely care home, DS18 has just finished an apprenticeship and been confirmed that he is being taken on full time.

My new working pattern makes things less stressful for me so I now need to put into place an action plan for looking after myself, eating better, taking the exercise I know I ought to take and more holidays / weekends away.

Em @rainingallday

Wikipedia also says "A decade in the Anno Domini[a] year numbering system is a period from a year which ends on the digit 1 to the following year which is a multiple of ten; for example, the period from 1961 to 1970 was the 7th decade of the 20th century (or the 197th decade), and the period from 2001 to 2010 was the 1st decade of the 21st century (or the 201st decade)."

Who's the fruitloop now?

Unless you count from 0-9 instead of 1-10, there are 450 days left.

El888 best of luck!!