You have a time machine and can back exactly six months - what advice would you give yourself?

[Grumpylockeddownwoman]

Just that really - would you have quietly stocked up on hand sanitiser? Done something sooner? Taken up a hobby? Changed job?

Stop saving for the once-in-a-lifetime trip to USA this summer (so fortunate to not have booked anything). Instead go abroad for Xmas instead of all the family shite/guilt trips/politics. Somewhere really lovely where the kids can really get engrossed in the place/atmosphere. Go away at Feb half term.

Check the bucket list and see what you can cross off.

Don't be guilt-tripped out of NC because the shit is going to hit the fan, you'll be drawn back into it and your MH will be utterly fucked.

Ensure dc puts 110% into his mocks just in case something wierd happens with summer exams

Dine at more of the restaurants on your list. Get more freelance work, even if it's below your pay grade to shore up the accounts.

Nothing. We haven't experienced food shortages and I'm rural so no need to move. House is in decent condition so no need for paint. Yeah nothing to change. Back garden needs done but that's summer job anyway. God my life is boring!!

1. visit all the family I now can't visit who haven't met my toddler yet, especially an elderly relative whose health has been failing and is now cocooning and who I think may never meet her. We couldn't face a lot of travel with her for a long time as she slept so badly but I really wish we went for it now.

2. Put the work needed to finish our house on the credit card and outsource it. We've been doing DIY every weekend which is no longer possible, many things that aren't finished are annoying to deal with in lockdown and we could start to pay it off with the money we're currently saving.

3. As has been said, shares in zoom. Better internet. Bring home more files from the office before I couldn't go back there, and go to the dump.

Move to New Zealand.

Change jobs.

Go to New Zealand.

Set up an Abel & Cole account and use it.
Go to parents in February half term. Leave them lots of paracetamol. Don’t book for Easter.
Do all the house organising you actually did as it’s helped enormously. In fact a lot of the stuff you did from January has made life easier.
I might buy hand soap, uht milk and tea bags.
Take all the sanitary products out of your work drawer and bring them home.
Don’t leave your coffee cup on the desk at work to wash it later...that’s going to be gross.

@AdaColeman!
Noooo! If you did what I did on the stairs (minor slip, resulting in a spiral break of the tibia and fibula, resulting in major surgery to insert a whole load of metal work, and months off work in huge pain, major weight gain and much angst) then I SYMPATHISE!!!!!!

Spend every single possible moment with your doggies, because they'll both be gone within three weeks of each other and you will be devastated

Go swimming at least once a month

Ask him out. Stop procrastinating about cutting your hair and do it. Sigh.

Get a gastric bypass. I wouldn’t have gotten quite so fat in lockdown.

Don't book dd's expensive 3 week trip up the Gold Coast for April on my debit card because the credit card wouldn't work.

Go out as much as you possibly can, don't say oh let's just stay in this weekend! Also get a job where you wouldn't have to work through a pandemic and whilst this sounds like insanity, move your parents in.

Go for a slap-up dinner with DH tonight; the baby's coming tomorrow!

Take the earlier appointment for physio, even though it means travelling into London in morning rush hour and phoning in sick at work/risking falling foul of the absence formula at zero notice.

Book a GP appointment and see that Osteopath you've been told is brilliant.

Take that podiatrist appointment. Go to the dental hygienist.

Get your hair done, your eyebrows and everything else you can think of.

And opt for the rolling gym membership and go regularly now, instead of waiting until the New year rush died down.

1. Stock up on baking supplies
2. Get your filling done at the dentist
3. See lots of your family
4. Save your money

Wish I hadn’t booked a hotel break for my husband’s 60th last November.
We intended to take it up around now.
Guess we’ll say goodbye to it. ( non-transferable.)

Been more honest and pushed more at the Doctors that the medication were no longer working.

It would have saved a shit ton of grief over the last few weeks

I'd have kissed the guy I met and fancied that I met on the weekend before all of this started

We're now virtually dating but it would have been nice to have a snog first ...

Travel to visit both my parents (divorced, live hundreds of miles away in opposite directions) as much as possible

Fill your freezer , bread meat and frozen veg

Bugger off to New Zealand.

Get my tooth pulled that really needed it!