New Year’s Resolutions To Make Your Life Easier
New Year’s resolutions … many of us make them; most of us who do tend to break them. This year, why not try something different than the resolutions the usually make the Top 10 lists and make some that are geared toward making your life easier, rather than struggling to keep the ones that always seem out of reach?
New Year’s Resolutions To Make Your Life Easier
1. Set the alarm for 15 minutes earlier than usual and steal some quiet time to start the day. After a week or so, you’ll be going to bed that much earlier, too.
2. To ward off next years holiday debt worries and last minute rushes, buy one gift a month when you’re out and about anyway. Or set aside some money in a Christmas club toward the bigger gifts and purchase several smaller ones outright each month.
3. Trade favors with one or more friends and spend a day a month helping de-clutter each others homes. Toss the trash things, and donate the better things you no longer need to charity. If you need the money, sell those things on Ebay or on consignment at a local second-hand store.
4. One weekend a month, shop in bulk for those things you use frequently like paper products, canned goods, and toiletries. That means during the week, you’ll only have to shop for fresh produce, etc.
5. Keep colorful containers near those places that tend to acquire clutter: near entry ways, on the kitchen counter, in the playroom or family room, and on your desk. Size them according to need and once a week, put things in their rightful places. It’ll prevent you and your friends from having to de-clutter again next year.
6. Each time you cook, make double or triple. Freeze the extras for easy reheatable meals on your busiest evenings.
7. Free up money and energy by going out less often. Watch more DVD’s at home. Play board games as a family. Exchange get-togethers to play cards or enjoy a potluck style meal or finger foods with friends.
8. Trade baby-sitting favors with friends. They and you will each trade one extra busy afternoon for one that is totally freed up to do as you wish.
9. This year, sign your kids up for one extra curricular activity apiece rather than 3 or 4 each.
10. Consolidate your errands to save on gas money, vehicle wear and tear, and personal energy.
11. If you can afford it, hire a someone to do the deepest house cleaning once a month, or again, trade off with neighbors, friends, or family and help each other get the work done faster and more easily.
12. Eliminate things you do merely out of a sense of obligation rather than necessity or enjoyment.
Going through this list of New Year’s resolutions to make your life easier will trigger even more ideas to do so. Tailor it to suit your specific needs and enjoy the benefits.
Karen
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