I’m not one for resolutions – I don’t like to set myself up for failure in a month or two – but I do think it’s healthy to have some kind of goals so for this year, here they are.
To do
- Move – this is by far our biggest priority this year – we need to be settled in a house we are happy with, that fits us… and where the real estate agents aren’t complete arseholes.
- get away regularly as a family – we needs us more fun times!
- Find creative ways to make more of our vegie gardening portable so that being semi self sustainable is attainable wherever we end up without taking months to get re-established
- Get back into exercising regularly and sort my health out.
- Teach Miss Lou how to drive. Goddess. help. me. Seriously. I’m not sure which is scarier, the idea that I will shortly have a 16 yo or my vague child behind the wheel of a car.
To buy
- A second car – I realise that this doesn’t exactly fit with the ideals of decreasing our dependency on fossil fuels, or lowering our carbon footprint but we live in a country area with a minimum of public transport and I need to be able to develop a reliable night time routine if I’m going to beat the insomnia monster in the long term. Time to face the fact that I am firmly on the other side of 35 and can no longer burn the candle at both ends all the time. For that to happen, we need another car so hubs can get himself to and from work in the wee hours of the am. This will also help cut down my running around through the day freeing up some time and energy for other things.
To try
- budgeting – fair dinkum, sit down and account for every dollar ‘because this is serious shit’ budgeting instead of our usual estimates and ‘rob peter to pay paul when we have to’ working out. I could tell you where most of our money goes and what on, our bills are all paid and we do ok, but we want to get more out of our money, do more with it and develop a secure safety net in case anything goes pear shaped
- saving – we don’t have any. See above goal. We have a number of savings goals this year with our first being the bond for a new house. Other savings goals include emergency money, and holiday money.
To learn
- to keep going with uni
- to balance things better
- to laugh more again after the sucky year that was 2009.
What are you hoping to do this year?
I am hoping to get laid …. **Sigh**
lol.
Yes, we need to laugh more after 2009. I’m with you on that.
I’m hoping to try and save a little money. I’m giving up buying lotto tickets and putting that weekly tiny amount away in a hidey-hole. If nothing else it will cover expenses for next christmas.
“to do” ?
Breathing is enough for me to cope with at this stage! lol
My friend is a keen gardener and also moves around a lot. She uses grow bags from the garden centre and has a productive portable garden.
If you write down every single cent that you spend just in one week you will be quite surprised at how much “spare change” you spend on not much at all. $2 here $2 there soon adds up to $20.
My goal this year is to build the studio.
I really hope you find the right home for your family. My biggest personal goal is to learn to say no. I often take on too much. I don’t want to be so busy this year. Happy New Year.
I’m hoping for some balance in 2010.
Not asking for a whole lot… or maybe I am.
So hard to find a balance of meeting everyones needs and getting the necessary things done.
I hope you achieve your goals.
I only just did a list of my own after some inspiration from a blogging daughter.
I don’t do resolutions, I find them tiresome and a waste of time, but goals for across the year are a fabulous idea.
I’ve done the whole “write down every single cent you spend” thing in the past, and it’s quite staggering when you look back over a month, and the ways you find to cut things down is a lot easier.
I would recommend it to anyone trying to sort out a budget.
Good luck with your list!
You’ll do well I’m sure…