If you knew we were going to be in lockdown for a year ..what would you of done different???

[Kab30]

Just been thinking what I would of done differently...

Definitely try to loose weight
Definitely be more lenient on myself and try to chill a bit more
I should of decorated and gardened etcetcetcetc lol

However my five year old has kept me sane ..insane .happy and mad all in one xx

@ArosGartref

Dyed my hair blue.

I had blue hair before lockdown and struggled to get it during so I dyed mine brown🤮🤮

Moved home

I've worked throughout in the nhs and I wouldn't have done anything differently as tbh we have just about survived doing our best. I feel lucky our garden was nice and we could use it to it maximum potential.

Had we been furloughed we'd be caring for two small children so not even much opportunity there but there would be much less pressure on us.

I wouldn't change anything.

Yes I probably pushed my older 2 children harder than I should have, but I knew they would never recoup the learning time that they were losing.

My youngest learnt how to count using real life cows and discovered that she definitely does NOT like horses are 1 tried to eat her (a public footpath through their field but the horse only hated her 🤣) but unicorns are still cool.

My middle daughter learned how to swim in a blow up pool (on her 4th birthday) and finally started to talk!

And my son.... we had the most amazing arguments!! He told me how much he hated me because he couldn't go out and play with his friends/have sleepovers/do anything fun, but we very luckily and gratefully don't know anyone who has had Covid (until today when hes been sent home to isolate).

I realised pretty early on that we were in for the long haul, I held it together the best I could, I cried at all 3 of my babies having, in my eyes, a shit birthday because they couldn't do anything and I couldn't really get them what they wanted but they all absolutely loved it. They realised there's more to life that material things.

As a family, we transformed our garden, walked 33 miles in A DAY just playing in the countryside, swam during a HUGE thunderstorm while singing Imagine Dragons and made a million more memories

Got a job other than a keyworker job so I could have had a lovely long holiday too

Made sure I introduced my twins to more people (born Dec 2019). Been kinder to myself Dec-Mar. Enjoyed the "peace" more before school stopped.

Started letter writing.

Kept a diary.

I wish I had exercised more, instead of working crazy hours to make my company richer.

I too wish I had have bought a sex pond, its been on the to do list since we moved here, but we wanted to do the patio first and get a wooden cladded one. I might just get one of those inflatable ones anyway. Our nearest neighbours are too far away to be disturbed.

@Bargebill19

Opted for a job where furlough was a possibility instead of working all year 70 hours a week and no time off.

You did ask!

Hear, hear!!

@chickadeeeeeeeee

I would have- Been retired, like my neighbours, played flamenco music, lazed in the garden, gone to Spain for three months (in my second home) and had the vaccine

Instead-
we worked all year, no holiday, had kids at home, supported them through GCSE's and still no vaccine for me

Awaiting years of me and my kids paying for this while pensioners still have triple lock- angry much- yes me

Presumably you aren't retirement age so doing that wasn't something you could have done differently, so you've taken the opportunity for a bit of bile.

As others have mentioned, the info suggests we're probably going to get more restrictions so i'm trying to form better lockdown habits.

I stopped drinking alcohol last autumn which was a big help. We did alot of sorting/cleaning around the house in Spring 2020 but there's still cupboards and drawers to sort out.

Winter lockdown was really grim and likely to be repeated so I need to sort out some techniques and projects for dark days. Free courses. Painting etc.

I lost weight ok, but wish I had focused on exercise to get fit and tone up more.
Wish I had wasted a lot less time infront of Netflix.

I've worked throughout so I'd probably have taken some time off in the summer and spent more time outside. I think I will this year.

@chickadeeeeeeeee
Pensioners pay tax too. And have children who will ‘pay for all this’ just as yours will.
We are all being told what to do; pensioners didn’t storm the vaccination centres crying ‘me first’, they simply followed instructions. Bile indeed.

Taken my car off the road formally and saved the tax, MOT, and insurance for a year.

Am intrigued how such a non-contentious thread can have so many posters having their posts deleted

I wouldn't have done anything differently but I would have laughed, it should not have gone on this long.

@Bluebells32

As others have mentioned, the info suggests we're probably going to get more restrictions so i'm trying to form better lockdown habits.

I stopped drinking alcohol last autumn which was a big help. We did alot of sorting/cleaning around the house in Spring 2020 but there's still cupboards and drawers to sort out.

Winter lockdown was really grim and likely to be repeated so I need to sort out some techniques and projects for dark days. Free courses. Painting etc.

Umm no I don't think so, restrictions are being lifted in June and there's vaccines now.

I'd have accepted my CEO's offer to go part time on return from maternity leave.

Otherwise I think we've gotten on fairly well.

@lightand

Nothing. I still reckon now as I did then, that this will be a 3 year thing[assuming government do not go rogue].

3 years?? No thanks.

@SplendidSuns1000

Bought a blender early so I could make my stupid iced coffee frappuccino things at home when starbucks was inaccessible.

Also would've been nice to know earlier that DH (tattoo artist) would be able to change his career slightly so we have a better income now than before LD as it would've reduced a lot of stress.

Also I wish I'd bought my bluetooth earphones earlier. I have them in every waking hour and adore them.

Can I ask how?

Changed jobs so I could have been furloughed and not had to work myself into sleeplessness and grey hair at home. I would have liked to have had some time "off" to have read, drawn, knitted and learned something new. If I ever see that sodding "And the people stayed home" poem again I'll fucking scream.

I'd also have got hold of flour and eggs before those on furlough took up baking and cleared the shelves.

Started going for a daily walk sooner. It’s not much exercise but it may have meant I wouldn’t now have 1.5 stones to lose. I’m finding a daily walk stops me gaining weight but obviously isn’t enough exercise to lose any.

I wish I had furlough. Instead I got reduced to doing 80% of my hours when furloughed people got the same money without having to work. Furlough wasn’t an option for me though, so not a choice I could’ve made.

I'd have had my jungle of a garden sorted out. It is being landscaped now, so I will be able to use it this summer.
I am also decluttering like mad (taking advantage of having a skip) but I feel like I have wasted so much time just sitting around watching tv.

Not had a baby and a toddler so that I could have carried on working, ideally out of the home and not living the same day over and over again.

My DH worked throughout and I envied him still getting to go out to work.

But realistically, I had my second baby a year ago today and I should have spent more time just resting with her rather than trying to spend the entire day in one room with DH and my son as well. We learned eventually that it was more bearable to split the day and give each other a bit of child free time.

I shouldn't have let the weight creep back on between September and now.

Rented a holiday house for a year up on the mountains nearby and remained there so the kids could play outside.
Bought a desk and office chair on day one.
Not dyed my hair at the lifting of the last lockdown!

Sent the children to school during the first lockdown.