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Please can we get your New Year resolutions

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GeraldineMumsnet · 02/12/2008 12:08

In a flurry of forward planning we're thinking ahead to January and would like to know your New Year resolutions (as long as they don't include spending less time on MN ). Thank you in advance.

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VaginaMonologues · 04/12/2008 09:52

To Mumsnet more, obviously ...

VaginaMonologues · 04/12/2008 09:52

karma

christmaseve · 04/12/2008 10:01

To give up smoking at some point in January. For good this time.

MNHQ
GerryChristmasMumsnet · 04/12/2008 11:07

Thank you, this is great. please keep 'em coming

ReinDIORdroppings · 04/12/2008 12:04

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GerryChristmasMumsnet · 04/12/2008 12:56

Because we're going to turn them into an email to go out in the new year.

ReinDIORdroppings · 04/12/2008 13:21

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ThomcatIsForLifeNotJustForXmas · 04/12/2008 15:18

I'd like 2009 to be more about ME!

Re-start Yoga

Maybe even learn to meditate for those moments when everyone else is arguing / crying / driving me mad, I can just take myself off somewhere without actually having to leave 3 small children home alone.

Take time out to be alone with DP, hopefully a couple of child free overnighters.

Do something big. Done jumping out of a plane and fulfilled my ambition to scuba dive so not sure what yet, but something I can look back on and say 'in 2009 I.... put my head in a lion's mouth', something along those lines.

Save some money.

Lizzylou · 04/12/2008 16:48

To get back to running and exercising in general as this seems to have slipped in last month or so

To run the Manchester 10km in under an hour

To be more glamourous and make more of an effort on my appearance

To have quality time with DH and have more sex (am hoping the first 3 help with number 4

To get my business up and running, make money and go somewhere nice for Christmas 2009, so I don't have to cook and entertain, bah humbug

ceciliaaherne · 04/12/2008 17:05

The usuals- boring I know.

  1. To eat less!!!
  1. To clear off a large chunk of my credit card.

I also know I will probably have to resolve the same again next year.

fryalot · 04/12/2008 17:10

1, to get fit
2, to exercise more
3, to tone up flabby muscles
4, to take up cycling
5, to take up jogging
6, to get out and about and take advantage of living in a beautiful party of the country.

(did I mention getting fit?)

Countingthegreyhairs · 04/12/2008 17:22

To not have to face the same list of resolutions in January 2010

that I did in 2009, 2008, 2007 etcetera etcetera ....

Nagapie · 04/12/2008 17:29

Be kinder to ourselves

SilkStockings · 04/12/2008 18:16

Don't make them.

tassisssss · 04/12/2008 21:02

Mine are spectacularly dull:

I want to have a housework rota - you know days to do certain jobs...i've done this in the past and it works for me.

I want to keep running, started recently and really liking it.

I want to read the Bible in a year (church challenge)...have a lovely Bible that's helpfully already divided into 365 sections.

Dh and I usually set a few for ourselves that we never keep like go to the theatre at least twice in the year (and that doesn't count kids productions!), climb at least 2 hills, go out together more...

hobnob57 · 04/12/2008 21:35

to increase my grip on reality

ClutterJunkie · 04/12/2008 21:40

Eat When I'm Hungry.....Stop When I'm Full.

Put one thing away...before i get another out....and throw something away every time i buy something new....I REALLY MUST GET ON TOP OF THE CLUTTER THAT RULES ME!!!!

mummypig · 04/12/2008 23:57

I want to try to buy as little new stuff as possible. I was inspired by the long-running 'no new stuff in 2008' thread but didn't really get a chance to put it into action due to ds2's ill health.

Waltzywotzy · 05/12/2008 12:24

To gracefully decline and not to accept my MIL's tat, so my house is not full of her old things.

hanaflower · 05/12/2008 17:03

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bran · 05/12/2008 18:37

To walk for 40 mins in the park near DS's school most mornings before heading back into the traffic, thus avoiding the end of the rush hour.

To really get a grip on the mountain of stuff in the study so that we can turn the study into a bedroom for our new DD.

TheTwelveDAISYOfChristmas · 05/12/2008 20:42

To take charge of the chaos that rules my life

To put laundry away as soon as it's dry

To not sweat the small stuff

To pick my battles with my 6yo DS

Botbot · 05/12/2008 21:12

eat less.

as usual.

WilfsElf · 05/12/2008 21:51

Has another pedant been over to say this: no you can't get mine, but you can have them...

Oh shit. Now I have to think of some.

GoodWilfToAllMN · 05/12/2008 22:08

Be as funny as all the funny people on MN and this thread like pigleto.

[and in my second Xmas name]