Mumsnet users share their goals for the New Year and how they’re going to achieve them with HP Instant Ink

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New Year is just around the corner, which for many means new beginnings, new experiences and new goals! Whether you’re continuing goals from this year, creating new ones, setting big goals or small ones HP wants to hear all about them and how you’ll be achieving them.

Here’s what HP Instant Ink have to say: “New Year brings a fresh start, whether you have a health and fitness goal, want to save money or plan more activities as a family, why not start with HP Instant Ink. This smart HP service has your printer detect when your ink begins to run low and then automatically orders you a new HP original ink cartridge which is delivered straight to your door – with free postage to return and recycle the used one. It makes home printing easy and affordable. There are four different HP Instant Ink price plans to choose from with monthly plans ranging from printing 15 pages a month for free, or pay £1.99 for 50 pages, £3.49 for 100 or just £7.99 for 300 a month. Unused pages roll over to the next month and you can change your price plan at any time. All you need is a compatible HP printer to start planning your New Year goals and to print out your memories along the way. Before you run out. We deliver – HP Instant ink.

You can also get £30 cashback when you buy an eligible Envy Photo printer and sign up to HP Instant Ink within 30 days of your purchase. You can find more information here. Offer ends tonight 4/2/19

Will you be printing out your family’s meal planners and fitness charts, or perhaps your DC will have a star chart printed out on the wall to tick off their New Year Bucket List? Perhaps you have personal goals to do more of the things you love or even try new hobbies? What about those areas of your house that are in need of a declutter? Or maybe you’re setting new goals as a family or with you and your partner?

If you need any inspiration on how to achieve your goals, we have created a New Year's Resolution Pinterest Board in collaboration with HP and some of our Mumsnet Influencers. Please click here to have a look

Everyone who posts on the thread will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck with the prize draw
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Hopefully give birth to a healthy baby and somehow get through the first year in one peace!

Oh and finish my Masters dissertation - those two goals are compatible right?!

I’ve decided to eat more colourfully and cook with my DS more, rather than just thinking that I do.

2019 is the year, (having spent 2018 in planning and preparation) that I put my long term plan to give back something to my local community into action.
My goal is to set up and run free monthly community reminiscence sessions in 3 venues across my local area.
The first session will happen at the beginning of Feb.

These sessions will be for anyone over 50 who feels lonely, isolated or who just wants to make new friends over shared memories. Each session will have a theme and we'll chat over ☕ and 🍰. I'd particularly like to encourage men to join as I believe they are often 'hidden' in their isolation.

As I will be doing this without any funding, the Instant Ink would be a godsend for making posters, publicity flyers, writing letters and presenting reports to hopefully (by the end of 2019) secure a bit of funding to continue and train others to run similar sessions going forward.

Fabulous idea Eastmidlands I hope you win

My resolution for 2019 is to cook fresh meals from scratch and plan meals each week to have less of a hefty shopping bill. I also aim to use my Instant Pot more so that evenings are less fraught and more relaxing because dinner is already prepared.

Deep clean house, lose weight, use gym membership, get published, spent less time online ...
Bye!!

Write the book that’s been bubbling around in my head for ages.

I’m really not sure if I can write, but it’s one of those “I don’t want to look back on my life knowing I never tried” moments.

Plus lots of writers say the first step to writing is to read lots. And I DEFINITELY do that. So hey I’m like 70% there already, right?

I am going to hugely cut down on my drinking! With the help of the DJ app and the lovely MN penguins.

I don’t do New Years resolutions, any time of the year can be good for making a change where needed! But this year I’m just trying to appreciate being me and what I have already :-)

my resolution is to try to look on the positive side of everything

To eat less processed food.
I'm going to make my kitchen more inviting and work better for me - it's small and could do with a clear out of unused crockery etc.

My resolution is to be more positive. Everyone will have one word printed off and stuck around the house for inspiration. New year and a happier family hopefully!

Other than the traditional "this year I'm going to eat less and go the gym more" resolution, my actual resolution this year is to broaden my cooking horizons to make more family meals that my toddler will eat and not rely on the usual curry/chili/chicken pie fare (with a waffle/omelette for DS). Currently researching slow cookers so I can do more cooked-from-scratch meals that fit in around work/nursery/toddler activities, and have already printed off a few recipes which I fancy trying (both with and without SC!).

I've failed already (but not given up!). I want to do less and enjoy more.

My aim is to get back to meal planning. Decide on a weekend what we're going eat during the next week so I can make sure we have all the ingredients. We got a bit lazy in the latter half of 2018 and all our good intentions went out of the window!

We're hoping to improve our meal planning. At the moment there's too much waste/indecision/Last minute shops. Printing our meal planning and shopping lists would help a lot I suspect

My NYR is to become mentally stronger and achieve some personal goals which I have been proscrasinating to do. Also, I'd like to up my recycling/upcycling ideas and also encourage my family to do the same.

I’m trying to get less stressed about stuff I can’t control. I’m aiming to give myself a bit of time each day to reflect which I’m hoping will keep the stress under control a bit.

To make sure dh and I get out on a date (either just us or meeting friends for dinner together) at least once a month.

We lost family babysitting when PIL had health issues last year and didn't want to ask them too much. We realised we can afford to pay babysitters, it's just we haven't really got in the habit of it until there's something we are invited to. We want to get back into just going out because we want to have some time just us.

We really need to save money and plan our family time a bit better. This would be perfect and would be great to make some charts and spreadsheet I could print out. Me and dh also mean to do a cleaning/chore rota!

I want to get more organised! If I didn't waste so much time looking for stuff every day I'd get heaps more done!

We definitely need to sort out a weekly family planner and print it out to stick on the fridge - with 3 kids who all need to be in different places at different times and so many things to remember the standard planners just don't do the job - but we can create our own schedule to include everything we need to and print it out for us all to refer to.

I’m determined to get organised this year so I have a pocket calendar/diary that I’ve kept to thus far...

I think I need a good filing system as well.

This year Id like to ger down to a healthy weight, do the organised mum method (lots of printing involved!) and be more organised. I like the sound of the instant ink plan. Would make uni work a bit easier!