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If you could go back to 2018 .....

44 replies

AutumnAlmanack · 22/10/2021 18:25

Knowing what was to come in 2020, what would you make sure you did? For me, it would be not putting off that fabulous holiday which I have always wanted to do, but just wanted to save a little bit more money .....

I would give anything to go back to those days of carefree things!

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Crunchymum · 22/10/2021 18:30

Spend more time (all the time) with my mum.

She didn't die of anything related to Covid but I'd barely seen her for months before she died and I didn't get to be with my family - in any proper way - after she died (due to restrictions / isolations with 3 primary aged kids there were many / lockdowns)

It was a shit time to lose someone you loved. Not that there is ever a good time of course!!

VaguelyInteresting · 22/10/2021 18:33

Move abroad. Probably Spain.

OnceuponaRainbow18 · 22/10/2021 18:34

Make my husband become a “key worker” 😂

NeverTheHootenanny · 22/10/2021 18:38

I would have spent more time with my grandmother while I could, and while she still knew who I was.

YogaLite · 22/10/2021 18:38

Would have given up work then and there.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 22/10/2021 18:42

We moved back to the UK on 2019. I am so glad we did... not being able to get back to family in an emergency would have been difficult.

Bought DDs a computer each is the only thing I can think of.

DDUW · 22/10/2021 18:43

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Lyricallie · 22/10/2021 18:49

Would have had my wedding earlier rather than a long engagement (which became even longer!!).

Apart from that nothing much different.

Pheasantlysurprised · 22/10/2021 19:04

I would not have signed a contract for an unfinished rental property in the middle of nowhere 5 days before they announced lockdown. That was a sweet, 6 month cock-up right there!

I did suspect issues as lockdown approached but the damn thing was so far in motion that backing out would have been a logistical nightmare.

rossogingerale · 22/10/2021 19:11

My DF passed away in February and I saw him regularly, I'd go back and spend everyday with him.

IncessantNameChanger · 22/10/2021 19:19

🤔 maybe done my PGCE ready to teach the kids.

Gone on holiday and maxed out on seeing people. I really think I need and find less comfort in people post covid. I feel isolated and alone while surrounded by people now. I feel distant to everyone in my life now even if outwardly nothing has changed. Something has changed in me I think

PicsInRed · 22/10/2021 19:19

It might have helped to have had a super yacht or a private jet and staff, so I could visit family in a still closed NZ. Or a sporting or performing career.

Hmm C'est la vie.

My well stocked Brexit cupboard seamlessly transitioned to a Covid cupboard, still stocked and ready for what's coming next.

timtam23 · 22/10/2021 19:51

I would have gone to my friend's wedding in rural Australia. The logistics at the time seemed just too complicated and very expensive but I would absolutely have gone had I known what was going to happen in 2020

XenoBitch · 22/10/2021 19:52

I live a day at a time (sometimes an hour), so I don't think I could have done anything differently. Early 2020 was when I was determined to make it my year... and look how that went!

AliceinBorderland · 22/10/2021 19:54

Holidays holidays and more holidays

MaverickDanger · 22/10/2021 19:56

Maybe had a couple more weekends away.

Honestly we were very lucky that in 2018 & 2019 we managed to do a lot of major stuff - got married, bought a house, did two huge trips abroad to see family, established our careers further. And then 2020 I had a baby, so I only really missed having a couple of trips before the baby arrived.

DragonDoor · 22/10/2021 20:03

Personally I would have changed nothing in 2018. I made some important and difficult decisions that in the end enabled me to live in a less precarious situation during the pandemic.

elizabethdraper · 22/10/2021 20:04

Bought ink for the printer

Remmy123 · 22/10/2021 20:19

Nothing.

Really pleased I didn't avoid seeing my mother during any of this.

Lightswitch123 · 22/10/2021 20:21

Got a trampoline

MrsTerryPratchett · 22/10/2021 20:22

Put all my money in Zoom.

And moved my parents into my house.

MuchTooTired · 22/10/2021 20:22

I gave birth to my DTs in 2018, so if I could go back I’d get myself help for pnd sooner. Nothing to do with covid though! Now, if I could go back to before I was pregnant, I’d have booked that holiday to the Maldives, and to hell with the cost.

Tana433 · 22/10/2021 20:24

Gone to every concert i wanted to instead of being worried about the money because this, for me will probably become a thing of the past if the government have their tyrannical way.

FflosFfantastig · 22/10/2021 21:03

@Tana433

Gone to every concert i wanted to instead of being worried about the money because this, for me will probably become a thing of the past if the government have their tyrannical way.
Yes this. I'd have had a year of gigs and festivals. Also would have taken my child abroad before it became a huge stressful faff. Oh and bought a camper van before the prices of them tripled. This is wishful thinking of course and not factoring in that in reality I wouldn't have been able to afford do most of it!
MercyBooth · 22/10/2021 23:35

Ive gone back to 2003 And it is bliss.