Best decisions of 2016?

[konapoppy]

This can be fun or serious.

Hands down one of my best decisions was buying the Beiber album. Totally worth the flames and side eye from my husband.

[atarianna]

To clean up my FB. I may have done too good of a job surrounding myself with likeminded individuals because I am continually confused when Trump wins a state. In my little world, everyone hates him.

[explorer2001]

I'm hoping it's the California King size bed that is waiting for me to clear out the master bedroom to make space to move it in. A) I should finally be able to sleep through the night without being elbowed B) it's the first big symbolic piece of Boyfriend and I living together since he officially moved in earlier this year. So yay all around.

[steph96]

Encouraging my mom to move to a better neighborhood.

[hamster]

I think we're buying a boat???

[lolo]

Scheduling a girls weekend with my sister. Cannot wait!

[irene adler]

Going to the H&f gtg <3

[Cicero]

It's still early days but moving to Africa.

[daisyn]

Breaking up with my boyfriend

Booking some awesome travel

[raangoli]

Ordering furniture and working on baby's room way earlier than necessary. Type A personality for the win!

[Deleted]

Deciding make my 'every-other-Friday off' work schedule permanent. It has been life-changing.

Also, I finally splurged and bought the Beats wireless headphones for working out at the gym and they are UNREAL. They stay on really well (I always seem to have problems with that), keep their charge for a full week (about an hour a day in the gym), and mean I can stop getting tangled in my wires. THANK YOU DR. DRE!!!!!

[sfy]

I instituted a new clean up plan in the house and now, it's virtually spotless all the time. Of course, DH is oblivious, but I can tell the difference lol.

[sfy]

Mar 3, 2016 8:48:30 GMT -5 chilerellanos said:

Mar 3, 2016 8:46:20 GMT -5 sfy said:

I instituted a new clean up plan in the house and now, it's virtually spotless all the time. Of course, DH is oblivious, but I can tell the difference lol.

Tell me more....

It's actually not anything revolutionary, but I did a fair amount of purging to make sure that every single thing in the house actually did have a place. I re-organized some of our paperwork and did a deep clean so I could start with a clean slate. Since then, I take about 20-30 minutes in the morning--and I use that time to do a quick clean in the bathroom, make the bed, and then I pop into one room and do anything. Today, I used the time to dust, polish and clean windows in the dining room. It wasn't much time, but because I knew I'd stop at my 30 minute max no matter what, I whizzed through it. Since we WFH, one of us does any breakfast and lunch dishes at lunchtime. It's usually me but moving on lol. At night, whoever didn't cook cleans the kitchen after dinner as usual, but I also dedicate about 10-15 minutes to picking up anything left out during the day and putting it away. At some point during the weekend, I vacuum and H does any sweeping and mopping. It's really just been maintaining, so it feels simple and not overwhelming like when we'd have to buckle down and use half a day to clean up the mess we'd made over a few days or a week.

[Pom]

Job Loss Preparedness.  Reading comprehension fail, we did the following in 2015, but it set us up for success in 2016, LOL.
Getting the house ready to sell before Mr. P lost his job. It would have been much harder to pull any trigger after that happened. We were also able to hit the ground running with a revised resume. We started working on that months in advance too and the first job he applied for was a position "written" for him and he got it. Being somewhat conservative with our spending last year.

2016...picking out a good house before Mr. P got wrapped up in his new job.

[hamster]

Mar 3, 2016 8:46:20 GMT -5 sfy said:

I instituted a new clean up plan in the house and now, it's virtually spotless all the time. Of course, DH is oblivious, but I can tell the difference lol.

I started a weekly cleaning chart this week! I bought a magnetic whiteboard off Etsy. It has the days of the week where I put my daily chore (basically one room each day) and our meal plan, and then a list off to the side with all of other other to-dos we both need to tackle. H keeps saying I'm in charge of delegating (but not doing) and it drives me up a fucking wall. I'm hoping I can train him to just look at the list and take some damn initiative. 

[boiler717]

Mar 2, 2016 19:35:45 GMT -5 @sfgal530 said:

Mar 2, 2016 19:27:37 GMT -5 konapoppy said:

Hands down one of my best decisions was buying the Beiber album. Totally worth the flames and side eye from my husband.

I really want to go to his concert next week. I haven't pulled the trigger, but if I'm being honest that's only because I legit have no one to go with me... 

I wish I lived by both of you! <3 Biebs

[boiler717]

Tempurpedic adjustable bed
Trip to Europe
C section at 39w

[kore2]

Mar 3, 2016 9:11:47 GMT -5 hamster said:

Mar 3, 2016 8:46:20 GMT -5 sfy said:

I instituted a new clean up plan in the house and now, it's virtually spotless all the time. Of course, DH is oblivious, but I can tell the difference lol.

I started a weekly cleaning chart this week! I bought a magnetic whiteboard off Etsy. It has the days of the week where I put my daily chore (basically one room each day) and our meal plan, and then a list off to the side with all of other other to-dos we both need to tackle. H keeps saying I'm in charge of delegating (but not doing) and it drives me up a fucking wall. I'm hoping I can train him to just look at the list and take some damn initiative. 

Link? My BF is a neat freak, so I've gotten worlds better at cleaning & maintaining. But I thrive with visuals like a chart.

[hamster]

Mar 3, 2016 9:16:31 GMT -5 kore2 said:

Mar 3, 2016 9:11:47 GMT -5 hamster said:

I started a weekly cleaning chart this week! I bought a magnetic whiteboard off Etsy. It has the days of the week where I put my daily chore (basically one room each day) and our meal plan, and then a list off to the side with all of other other to-dos we both need to tackle. H keeps saying I'm in charge of delegating (but not doing) and it drives me up a fucking wall. I'm hoping I can train him to just look at the list and take some damn initiative. 

Link? My BF is a neat freak, so I've gotten worlds better at cleaning & maintaining. But I thrive with visuals like a chart.

This is the one I got, but there are lots of similar items if you search. www.etsy.com/listing/204872492/weekly-fridge-magnet-calendar-dry-erase?ref=shop_home_active_1

[kore2]

Best decisions:

Joining the GBCN DietBet in January. cajunmom posted it on FB, and I decided to sign up. It inspired me to re-join the site. I missed y'all

Renting a dumpster to purge my old house in preparation for selling. I'm not sure how real grown ups get rid of things like old couches, but it was nice to be able to load everything into a dumpster & not have to worry about it anymore. That house & its contents is an albatross around my neck. So freeing to be one step closer to done with it.

[hamster]

Correction: We ARE buying a boat.

[Deleted]

Mar 3, 2016 15:58:35 GMT -5 hamster said:

Correction: We ARE buying a boat.

Oh fun! What kind?

My parents dropped their 1992 tax return on the downpayment a speedboat and it was the best thing ever. So many good memories!

[Deleted]

I can't think of any major decisions we made in 2016 so far. Buy a truck that all 3.5 + dog of us haven't actually ridden together in yet? We did all of the big ones last fall: new job for H, got pregnant, sold house, new job for me, move

I want 2016 to be quiet. Other than having a baby in May, of course.

[UnderProtest]

Mar 3, 2016 15:58:35 GMT -5 hamster said:

Correction: We ARE buying a boat.

So how many lights is he installing?

[mrsfarmer]

DH pushed me to get DD1 in for a plastic surgery consult for her ear(it's a congenital deformation). I warned him if it was too much out of pocket, we'd have to wait. He just got a call that our out of pocket is a whole whopping $3! We can get this done now and I'm happy.

[hamster]

Mar 3, 2016 16:19:45 GMT -5 @idaholakelady said:

Mar 3, 2016 15:58:35 GMT -5 hamster said:

Correction: We ARE buying a boat.

Oh fun! What kind?

My parents dropped their 1992 tax return on the downpayment a speedboat and it was the best thing ever. So many good memories!

20 foot aluminum fishing boat.

Oh, and for your truck dilemma, H loves his new Ram 2500 diesel.

[hamster]

Mar 3, 2016 16:30:52 GMT -5 UnderProtest said:

Mar 3, 2016 15:58:35 GMT -5 hamster said:

Correction: We ARE buying a boat.

So how many lights is he installing?

Eight? Maybe more. Maybe a second room.

[UnderProtest]

Mar 3, 2016 16:44:39 GMT -5 hamster said:

Mar 3, 2016 16:30:52 GMT -5 UnderProtest said:

So how many lights is he installing?

Eight? Maybe more. Maybe a second room.

If it isn't a rowboat, he needs to install a whole house full of recessed lights.

[Mashara]

Booked a vacation to Cancun for April. Used Airbnb instead of an AI.

[hamster]

Mar 4, 2016 4:58:13 GMT -5 UnderProtest said:

Mar 3, 2016 16:44:39 GMT -5 hamster said:

Eight? Maybe more. Maybe a second room.

If it isn't a rowboat, he needs to install a whole house full of recessed lights.

Lol, nope. Already had one of those. I'm thinking I may lobby for living room lights and furniture. Bedroom or kitchen table?