Day 1/365: Welcome to 2018

[nanila]

I'm breaking with a long held resolution not to make serious New Year resolutions.

My resolutions are:

1) Pay off all non-mortgage related debts and do not take on any new ones.
2) Post to DW every day, even if it's just a short anecdote or a phone photo.

Keeping Resolution 2 today despite a prosecco-related hangover feels like a win. We rang in the new year with a games night (Articulate and Catan) with friends and rather a lot of booze. It was definitely worth it, but even though all four kids slept in until 8, today was a little foggy.

Current status: wrapped in a fluffy blanket on the sofa watching festive episode of Bake Off. Hello, Rav & Benjamina!

Comments

[alexseanchai]

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[nanila]

Heh, thanks!

[sfred]

I would like to try for something not far from your resolution 2, too.

[nanila]

Good luck with it! I've been feeling like I'm missing writing about loads of child-development-related stuff, and I really want to rectify that. This will probably result in lots of the posts being access-locked, but c'est la vie.

[sfred]

Good luck to you too!

[mysterysquid]

Good resolutions. :)

[nanila]

Thank you. :) Fingers crossed I can keep them.

[silveradept]

I would very much like to follow in #1, except I know I have debts of that nature still to take before my house is good enough to let sit for a while.

[nanila]

Good luck with getting rid of them. Sympathy and solidarity for money management attempts.

[wild_irises]

Yay!

As for debt, acknowledging that I could pay my ongoing debt off in a heartbeat if I chose to dip into my long-term savings, I keep getting out and then getting back in again. But each time less. I should be out of all debt (possibly even mortgage debt) by the end of 2018 if I don't retire and nothing huge goes financially wrong. (I will dip into long-term savings for a couple of things, but I think I can take my summer Ireland trip entirely out of ongoing income.)

[nanila]

\o/

Fingers crossed for you for getting out of all debt by the end of 2018!