Poll 1-1-16 New Year, New Resolve

I'm not really a resolution person, because I know I'll just set myself up to fail. But I'm shooting for continuing in making a better life. Better Life in 2015 kicked off with starting grad school, and I want to continue that. Keep going with school, take a little better care of myself (honestly, I didn't realize until this morning that I didn't eat anything yesterday. Nothing. Why did I let myself do that?). I've been sad the last few years because my life is the same-no boyfriends (ha, who am I kidding, no dates!), no major change in job (other than stress), I live alone, etc. So I'm doing what I can to make some better changes-save money for some good trips (not just an overnight in Dallas or OKC), etc.

NebulaJack wrote:

If you succeed, once you're done, instead of spending the money you were setting aside each month to pay off cards, put it into a savings account each month during the remainder of 2016 and all of 2017, then give yourself and the family an extraordinary holiday.

I hope that once I pull this off, I can do the same thing with the house. Realistically that could take 3 or 4 years, but it beats the hell out of 28 yrs.

Patch wrote:

NebulaJack wrote:I'm resolving to do more Karaoke, finish writing my novel and/or screenplay by years end, and start a garden.

Nice goals.

I shared mine on the main thread, but I know there will be lots of other changes needed to pull off the main resolution. I'll be cutting back or cutting out lots of stuff to focus on freeing up cash. So less Starbucks, beer, eating out, and cutting out my copenhagen habit all together. I have quit for a couple of years, then started back. But the price is crazy no days so it has to go.

If you succeed, once you're done, instead of spending the money you were setting aside each month to pay off cards, put it into a savings account each month during the remainder of 2016 and all of 2017, then give yourself and the family an extraordinary holiday.

NebulaJack wrote:I'm resolving to do more Karaoke, finish writing my novel and/or screenplay by years end, and start a garden.

Nice goals.

I shared mine on the main thread, but I know there will be lots of other changes needed to pull off the main resolution. I'll be cutting back or cutting out lots of stuff to focus on freeing up cash. So less Starbucks, beer, eating out, and cutting out my copenhagen habit all together. I have quit for a couple of years, then started back. But the price is crazy no days so it has to go.

I'm resolving to do more Karaoke, finish writing my novel and/or screenplay by years end, and start a garden.