To ask what you will not go back to doing?

[Galwaygirl]

For me, I realise after weeks in lockdown that I spent a fortune on kids clothes that they never wore, way too much and getting on fine with no new purchases!
Also, spent a fortune on make up and skin care that o am still using, makes me think I was living in a world where there was so much excessive expenditure on material thanks I did not need, will be mindful in future!

[KeepLosingThings]

Same as DaisyF

[TwilightPeace]

Staying in every Saturday night as I’m ‘tired and need to catch up on sleep’.
I always feel tired anyway so might as well go out and have fun!

[user1486915549]

monkey and atime. Thank you
Lockdown has been good for me in the most extraordinary and unexpected way.
It certainly makes you think about what is important in your life , and what you can happily ditch ( including my expensive hairdresser. Cut my own fringe , let it grow longer )

[FourTeaFallOut]

We must have gone to the shops four or five times a week pre-lockdown - madness. I was using Tesco like my own personal larder. Online shopping will be a stick, along with meal planning.

[AnnieMaul]

I wont be allowing work to be my entire life anymore.

I've had my own business for ~10years now and previously (happily) spent 12+ hours a day on work related tasks.

Then covid came along and my work for the rest of the year was cancelled (events). Days are now pretty boring but it has been a wake up call not to put all my eggs in one basket. It's been a pretty costly reminder that everything i've worked for for the last 10 years could be "taken away" virtually overnight due to something completely beyond my control- so why did I make it my whole life?

[LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett]

I'm going to keep meal planning and trying to use my freezer/store cupboard intelligently. We started getting milk delivered and I'm going to keep doing that too.

I'm going to keep phoning people, whether that's zoom or just normal phone. I really didn't do that before, in fact I was famous for not phoning people, but guess what? It's actually nice to keep in touch.

I'm going to stop feeling guilty about not home-schooling DS. He has ASD and I've fretted about whether sending him to school was the best choice pretty much since he started school. School is not perfect, but it is good for him and he prefers it to being at home. It feels nice to be able to leave that worry at the side of the road.

I'm going to travel just as much though (budget allowing as DH has been made redundant and my work has dried up). I LOVE travel, I love weekends away, I love staying in hotels, I love new places, I love eating out and I love pubs. I have missed that aspect of my life dreadfully. At least I can now see it as a public service, helping world-wide economies to recover.

[ginghamtablecloths]

I'll avoid the very big supermarkets and stick with the smaller shops. Shopping in the former became an unpleasant ordeal each week so I switched.
I'll try not to procrastinate so much and continue to take more exercise.
I lost my husband 9 1/2 years ago user1486 - it's still raw for you. While it doesn't necessarily get easier the 'rough edges' of grief wear smoother and you will be able to say that DH can be proud of how well you are learning to cope.

[CMOTDibbler]

Doing stuff for other people who don't give a stuff about me. I've always been a 'of course I'll make a massive cake for your party' or 'I'll have your kids for the weekend' person, and knew it wasn't really reciprocated. But after having a really, really, really tough time, and the only person who called or texted me about it was my cleaner I now know exactly where I stand.

[Cam2020]

Wasting money on chain coffee shop coffee.

[Topseyt]

We will continue working from home much more now. I already did, but it has been a revelation to DH and he and his colleagues are arguing with their employer to continue it regularly on a long term basis. We all like the much lower fuel bills, plus it is much better for the environment.

Nor will I go back to being taxi service for my youngest teenager. She passed her driving test shortly before lockdown and bought her own car. It has been both a revelation and a leap of faith to me, but overall it is bliss.

[Skyliner001]

Driving for walks as much. We live in the countryside and have incredible walks from our house. Not shopping more than once a week.

[ScrimpshawTheSecond]

I'm going to be distancing myself permanently from a few people.

[Faultymain5]

My job. As I'm being made redundant from a company and team I enjoyed working with for 4 years.

What I don't want to do though, is give so much to a company again, a mistake I keep doing. Going to try part-time if I can. It's sad, but such an opportunity to do something different all at the same time.

[Sobeyondthehills]

I am in the really confusing place of lockdown being my normal for the past 5 years, I have GAD and was just starting to crack through, so much so that in the Easter holidays we had plans of going to the beach and going to London and now my mental health has taken a massive dive and I am more or less back to square one.

However, I have the tools now to make sure it is not as long this time round and I am hopeful that if we are back to a relative normal then our plans for the Easter holidays will be in the summer holidays, but just got to wait and see what public transport is like

[WitchQueenofDarkness]

Carry on patronising the small shops and the village egg lady and visiting the supermarket every 3 weeks rather than weekly.

Shopping on the high street even less than I did before. It's going to be no fun queuing outside each shop in the rain so I won't be.

Visiting my elderly parents more often. I'm banned from seeing them thanks to Drakeford's desire to play with his power and they may not have much longer with us.

[UmbrellaHat]

Shopping. I always hated it, do other than food will just but online. Liberating!

[portocristo]

Buying lots of products ie hair stuff and makeup, didn’t realise how much stuff I actually had, so I’m working my way thru various foundations skin creams hair serums etc and also my bathroom looks so much tidier, reckon I can go at least a year with what I’ve got !!

[Nearlyalmost50]

Won't go back to shopping in person if I can help it. Online shopping for food is fab, plus I have got into the swing of ordering both mine and the children's clothes and shoes online. We have a Collect Plus store literally moments away so can do returns super-easily and don't have to stay in for them. Honestly feel I could never go in a shop again (but I didn't really like shopping for fun anyway).

Will still eat out through, love the experience.

[sausagepastapot]

Will never buy eyeshadow palettes again. I have finally found a very simple makeup routine that doesn't involve eyeshadow and I think it suits me so much more. And saves a fuckton of time.

Will stop buying DC many clothes- they bloody don't need them.

Will have my amazing cleaner here every week from now on rather than fortnightly, as I never want to have a shit hole of a house again after months of cleaning and tidying non stop.

Will rarely buy coffee out again as I have a brilliant machine at home (Delonghi La Specialista), McDonald's et al coffee is just watery, weak shit.

Won't fucking moan about the school run.

Won't be working out in the community so much now I have a huge network of remote clients all over the country. I love working from home now, which I very rarely was able to do before.

Most likely not going to get my full head of highlights any more- I think ill go for a balayage style now my roots are about 4 inches long....!

Won't say no so much to going out with my friends!

[Nearlyalmost50]

Will have my amazing cleaner here every week from now on rather than fortnightly, as I never want to have a shit hole of a house again after months of cleaning and tidying non stop I have upped my cleaner's hours and pay as I am so anxious not to lose her!

[Oblomov20]

Not much.
I've worked lots of unpaid hours in the last 3 months. I won't do that again.

[DinosaurOfFire]

I won't be forcing myself to act neurotypical, or to blend in- I was trying to be more 'myself' before lockdown, I had an autism diagnosis over a year ago now and have been trying to unlearn masking and hiding myself. Well, lockdown has been a breath of fresh air- no worrying if people are judging me for my style, for my interests etc. I will be happy to have coffee shops and book shops open though- it turns out most of my coping mechanisms to avoid meltdown are out of the house, away from the busyness and noise of the kids, and I need that space to be able to escape for sure. We've still got a while to wait here in Wales before that becomes possible though!

[TheGreatBritishLockdown]

spending so much on online shopping... I think boredom got to me a little bit. I normally shop around, I haven't bothered so much for the convenience of fast delivery.

The trouble with saving so much money on commute/holidays/parties/ life in general is that you have far too much disposable cash to waste. It all goes to a holiday fund now!

[Turin]

Long lie ins- have found a sort of love hate relationship with excercise

Grand weekend trips and activities to adventure playgrounds or the cinema

Taking my lovely long hair for granted- it’s fallen out in clumps and lumps since I had suspected corona virus in March.

[TheFormerPorpentiaScamander]

Rushing around and trying to always be there when family/friends needed me.
Lockdown has taught me that when the chips are down they are only out for themselves. I'll probably see a lot less of family as a result though:(