# Resolutions for the New Year **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 26, 2000, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259 "2000-12-26T17:51:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Nen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nen)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259/1 "2000-12-26T17:51:38Z")
Do you make resolutions for the New Year and what is your reasoning for doing so or not? What (is/are) your resolution(s)? ---
**Author:** ![Tymp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Tymp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tymp)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259/2 "2000-12-26T19:24:55Z")
I resolve to keep my car on the road and out of ditches. Why? Because it’s really sad to see a dented BMW covered in muck. I will have no repeats of this past weekend. How ‘bout you, **Nen**? ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259/3 "2000-12-26T19:33:12Z")
New Years Resolution 2001: Get rid of everything I had through all of 2000 but never bothered to do anything with… Don’t date any of my former girlfriends again. Don’t have sex with any of my former girlfriends again. ---
**Author:** ![McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259/4 "2000-12-26T19:34:52Z")
I resolve to: Read one classic novel every week. Learn Pascal, Javascript and C ++ if possible. Learn Sign Language. Learn Shorthand. Do a parachute jump. I seriously plan on keeping these resolutions for a change but, realistically I think that numbers 2 and 5 are the only ones I’ll stick with. ---
**Author:** ![isopropyl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@isopropyl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/isopropyl)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259/5 "2000-12-26T19:51:02Z")
1. Apply for a new job. 2. Rewrite resume first. 3. Line up references first. 4. Line up job first, so my references won’t leak that I’m quitting this one. 5. Apply for a new job. ---
**Author:** ![OESGal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecae2f/32.png) [@OESGal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OESGal)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259/6 "2000-12-26T20:15:35Z")
I resolve to shed the 25 pounds I gained since going off to Tenn Tech by returning to my exercise routine. Seems doable at least 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Alantus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@Alantus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alantus)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259/7 "2000-12-26T20:23:25Z")
I plan to have sex by the end of 2001. Reasoning for this, its an odd year, and well lately I haven’t managed to have sex in even years. Alantus ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259/8 "2000-12-26T20:47:21Z")
1. Finally lose this damn weight. 2. Let my hair grow out, and dye it any damn color I want, without worrying about my mother’s opinion. 3. Stand up to my mother for the first time in my life. 1 and 2 have good shots at happening. #3…who knows. ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259/9 "2000-12-26T20:49:35Z")
1. To get everything moved to my new filing cabinet. 2. To stop falling in love all the time. _sigh_ 3. To get all As on my report card at least once. ---
**Author:** ![StephenG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259/10 "2000-12-26T21:29:16Z")
I do make resolutions for New Year’s, and sometimes even stick with them. For most of these resolutions, it’s not because it’s the start of a new calendar year but because it’s the start of a new semester. It’s a convenient marking point, and perhaps I’ll be more motivated to follow through. Resolutions include: 1. Concentrate more on my schoolwork. 2. Devote less time to residence issues.\* 3. Go to the gym more often. 4. Be more organized in daily life, and stopw asting so much time (which should help with #1). - I’m an R.A. At my end-of-term evaluation, my two supervisors told me that I was doing a wonderful job and they wished all the other R.A.s were just like me … but that I was putting too much effort into my events, and doing too many things. All in all, not bad criticism.😃 Just thought I’d share… ---
**Author:** ![sk8rixtx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sk8rixtx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sk8rixtx)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259/11 "2000-12-26T21:34:09Z")
1. To grow up. ---
**Author:** ![aztec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@aztec](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aztec)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259/12 "2000-12-26T23:01:28Z")
1. Get the money 2. Get the power 3. Get the women ---
**Author:** ![Snark\_Hunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snark\_Hunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snark_Hunter)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259/13 "2000-12-26T23:20:57Z")
I resolve not to make any resolutions this year. They all get broken a week from New Year’s Day anyway, so why not just skip them altogether? ---
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259/14 "2000-12-26T23:41:52Z")
1. Get a job 2. Move to LA 3. Become a movie star 4. Get Nen to come visit somewhere between 1 and 2 5. Never ever get in a car with Tymp ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_c38f64651bbfc0fca993c5b066c30099](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a698b9/32.png) [@Anonymous\_c38f64651bbfc0fca993c5b066c30099](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_c38f64651bbfc0fca993c5b066c30099)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259/15 "2000-12-27T00:13:18Z")
This year I’m going to figure out when it is new Cecil columns are posted, and figure out how to work my calendar’s “link delivery” feature display them for me. ---
**Author:** ![WickedAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f6c823/32.png) [@WickedAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WickedAngel)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259/16 "2000-12-27T00:29:22Z")
I tend to make resolutions when i realize its about time for a damn change otherwise i’m never going to be happy and never move forward in my life…i’ve already decided on one \>thank you overly priced xmas gifts that my friends don’t really need, but what would xmas be without presents?\<…but i’ll save it till new years. 1. Stop wasting so much money on so many things i don’t need. and for extra flavor 1. Not put up with so much drama in my life 2. Pierce my tongue \>its been 3 years, i can do it, i’m not afraid, i won’t die from a bacterial disease, i won’t, i won’t, i won’t\< 3. I can drive three states away to escape #2. I have no one but me to make happy, dammit. Thank you for reading 🙂 please continue on to the next post ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259/17 "2000-12-27T01:47:42Z")
My resolution is to take better care of me and make the time to do it. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259/18 "2000-12-27T03:08:14Z")
I actually have had most of the same resolutions for a few years now: 1. Stop drinking and driving; 2. Start working out/lose a few pounds; 3. Hi, Opal! 4. Cut down on my cussing. Before anyone gives me shit: 1. I’ve started taking cabs and been the DD a few times. 2. I started working out last Monday and am still at it, so… 3. Hello again, Opal! 4. Well, shit, you can’t have it all. This year: 1. Cut back on cussing; 2. Keep working out/don’t eat after 8 pm/no more really big dinners; 3. Hi, Rasa! 4. Get my PADI Search and Rescue, then Divemaster certification. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259/19 "2000-12-27T03:49:08Z")
1. Stop whining. 2. Stop bothering people who don’t like me. 3. Stop insulting other people. 4. Stop being bitchy to other people. 5. Stop insulting myself. ---
**Author:** ![Tymp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Tymp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tymp)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259/20 "2000-12-27T16:19:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nymysys \* > \*\*5) Never ever get in a car with Tymp \*\* Damn! $3,500.00 stolen by a ditch _and_ I’m losin’ favor with all the fly honeys! Just kill me now . . . please? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolutions-for-the-new-year/47259.md?page=2)