Not new year resolutions, but changes you intend on making in another new year? Does a new year signal you to make changes in your daily life? Simple or complex things, routine changes of some sort? Making even the slightest change in our lives can lead to change in other areas of our life. I try to make some sort of changes with the start of every new year. Simple as a new device wallpaper, the way I answer the phone, to more complex things if need be. I am still thinking of this myself , but feel free to state yours.
I've already started making changes to bring in the new year. Anyone who knows me knows that I like change whether little or big something IS going to change .
My new dentures should be ready by Dec. 14. Since I’ve been pretty much gumming it for a couple of years, dentures that fit will be a big change.
The only changes we are looking at is: Moving to more of a "horse/cattle/western" related area of Nevada, but still have to rent an apartment. Since Lake Tahoe is way to big for us to put our boat on, and the cost of storage there is very high, will be looking to sell the boat/trailer before we move. As for our personalities go, "what you see is what you get". Even though my SIL (wife's sister) pretty much doesn't like mine.
That’s some major change really. We settle on the sale of our home on Dec. 11th, settle on the new place on the 13th, move on the 16th. This is a huge change for us, biggest in 30 years. We realize it will take us a number of months to get even reasonably settled in, especially since we’re having a contractor convert a large back porch into a 4 seasons room. Before that’s complete, we will hopefully be “together” enough so that we can start using the facilities right in the community. They have a “movement studio” that incorporates all kinds of different activities for geezers like the two of us, including a physical therapist on site. Both of us are interested in general conditioning but I especially need to see if they can give me some program to improve my leg strength and balance. Big changes coming.
I'm already getting seed catalogs so I'm beginning to plan next spring's garden changes. Also, we'll need to redo the front landscaping... again. We need to have our wills redone once my MIL's estate gets settled. Things will be a little more complicated then. I want my husband to designate whatever investments he inherits to go to his three kids when he dies. I'm beginning to think about looking at new houses but I don't know where we'd go. I'd really like to move farther away from the coast and out of "hurricane alley", plus we seriously need a single-story house. I'm sure looking at the cost of new homes will kill that idea pretty fast.
I’m sure there will be some changes but what they will be exactly, I’m not sure yet. Maybe I’ll stop coloring my hair. We would like to move too, but not sure where we would go. We have lived in this house for about 32 years.
That seems like a good idea to me, @Beth Gallagher . Since you would be selling your house, that should help with the price of the new one, and since it would be a smaller house, and not right on the coast, it should be cheaper to buy than a large house like you have now. What about your mother-in-law’s house , would that work for you ? Since your husband has been taking care of his mom all of these years, you know the exact condition of the house, and it would not be a long distance to move there. If you wait until you have to have a single story house because one of you is too disabled, then it would be much harder for you do do the necessary packing and getting ready to move, so looking now will give you some idea of your options.
My daughter suggested that we buy MIL's property; it is a beautiful piece of land. Unfortunately the house would just be torn down because we know the old plumbing needs to be redone and there's a lot of maintenance needed. It has a small kitchen that wouldn't work for me and my "stuff." Also there are new neighbors on one side that are hispanic and love to party outside on weekends. They seem nice enough but I can deal with only so much of that music being blasted outside, even with the houses being fairly far apart. I don't care for the location, either. The area was recently annexed by the city but still does not have city services (water, sewer, etc.) So we'd be dealing with a well and septic tank. If we move, we will pay a moving company because we aren't able to do most of that stuff any longer. Especially moving stuff from our second story. We need to clear stuff out of our attic while we are still able. This house has a large stand-up attic with a floor, so there are a lot of things up there to deal with.
Cody, hubby and I had boats for many years. When his health got so bad, we had to sell our last boat. I cried. And I suspect he did, too. But the time comes when you have to face reality. Whether it's fishing or rodeoing.
We're having a pretty hard time moving our stuff from the 2 mobile homes to the house. I can't believe how much stuff we've collected over the last year since the fire. The mobile homes will be carted off December 15th. So everything has to be out by then. We would like to have most of this stuff Put away So we can do some christmas decorating. Next year will be spent organizing stuff That we salvaged and stored. We were in this house for 49 years we collected a lot of things in that time. We had a 180 cartons in storage, That has been moved to our basement, We have a garage, a barn, a tented over car port, plus a 4 ft high x 15ft dia covered pile of stuff (junk) on a patio in the yard, all this has to be gone thru. That's what we'll be doing next year.
Some of my small changes for 2024 Moving calendar from fridge door to my work station at the counter bar Logging our BP on calendar vs keeping in a book.This way i will know last time it was taken No longer reminding him to take his BP meds, time for him to do on his own Lunch at the table - for him vs in recliner and tv. He can cook one night a week or not, up to him That is it for now..no I am not out to 'get him" ,, but he must learn to do things on his own. Oh and I am going to have to go back to driving more
No changes or resolutions made for the coming year because I never keep them, so I just deal with stuff as it comes.