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

Me and DP dealt with the initial 3 weeks by basically having a massive chill with snacks, films, TV shows etc. When it extended past the 3 weeks we didn't get back out of the habit. I feel that we could have made so much more of the year. Instead we just got fat.

You bought a house online without going to see it

I would have bolted out of the city at the first sign of COVID and spent the summer in a beach house.

I would have bought the peloton sooner and not spent many weeks living on a diet of White Claw and ice cream sandwiches. I'm finally down to my pre-lockdown weight, but it's been a grind.

Sent DH on a haircutting course.

Not gained all the weight back I'd lost the year before.

nothing zip nada

Not eaten everything/ordered everything/drank everything in sight. I’d have a lot more savings in the bank had I of done that. I also wish we’d got home improvements done sooner.

@StopGo

I wish I'd realised the NHS would close down to anyone without Covid. I'd have fought harder and maybe, just maybe I wouldn't now be a widow and single parent. I'm just one of thousands.

This made me stop in my tracks. I'm so so sorry for your loss.

We did what we did to survive so I'm not inclined to regret too much, we've had it a lot easier than other families though and have benefitted from some aspects of lockdown (and working in pharma I knew it was never going to just be 3 weeks in April, we were talking about running trials of treatments and vaccines in the winter 20/21 wave in the spring last year).

Although I do wish we'd painted the garden furniture last spring. We finally did it last week and it's now looking great. Oh, and bought a lot more pasta, and had more takeaways from some of the local restaurants once they started opening up.

Started trying for a baby earlier. I really always wanted to be a fairly young mum 27/28 max. We waited and put off TTC to have one last holiday just us 2. Didn't get that 2020 and seems unlikely 2021. So started TTC, fell pregnant in January but had a missed miscarriage discovered at nearly 10 weeks. God knows how long it will take to fall pregnant again and if I can even have a successful pregnancy. I wish we started sooner 🙁

Started my weight loss journey earlier .

I had recognised that this was a 12-18 month thing back last February. I set out a lot of home, health and fitness goals but got sick on March 18th and was very limited in what I could do until mid-June. I enjoyed the summer once things reopened, glad I could rebuild my previously very high levels of fitness and resting a lot in between. For me, lockdown only really started at the beginning of this year and I finally got to start on a lot of what I’d planned for this year.

Been working throughout so no change to anything through lockdown except being able to go to the shows we had planned.

I could think of loads of stuff I would like to have done if I was furloughed.

Ooh, I would have sent the children back to nursery as soon as it opened again, sorted out the garden sooner and decluttered before the charity shops shut.

If I had had full knowledge of what would happen in my life I would have immediately started the divorce proceedings after separating in Jan 2020 as they would almost be done by now and I wouldn't have had my ex hanging around and stalking me as I would have been able to get a non molestation order sooner! Could have been in a position to move soon if I had done that

I wish I had published my book on weight loss sooner! Judging by the other responses I think I was a little late...🤔
Should have painted the bathroom, and I intended to learn French (or at least start!). Hindsight eh?

Not come back from the monastery that I was in two weeks before the restrictions came about.

This!! And I’m glad I didn’t know it would be a whole year as the mental health effects would have been awful.

And yes training to be a hairdresser would’ve been a smart move

Bought more loungewear/joggers early on for comfy working from home. Thought it's not worth it for a few weeks.....

Another who would have got a. Job that offered furlough

More regular outdoor exercise. Shielding letters were too scary at the start. Obviously I can go out now but I don’t as much as I could. And I’m too fat.
I wish I’d focused more on learning a new language. I could have been fluent in Czech or Gaelic by now. Possibly.
I should have cleared more of the crap in the house at the start.

I wish I had just relocated at the start and taken the kids out to home ed.

Definitely bought desks and good office chairs straight away. Until around June/July we were still working from bed and the kitchen table!

Gone to see my grandparents every opportunity I could, despite them being extremely vulnerable and shielding.

They were both gone by Christmas (my Nan through cancer and my grandad through hospital acquired COVID and I lost those last precious few months with them.