Resolutions

Apparently none of my friends or family are going to make new year's resolutions (Boo to Chrissy and Joyce.)  Never one to fall into a crowd and succumb to peer pressure (especially blog peer pressure, *cough* Cat *cough*), I decided that I would post my new year's resolutions here and be held accountable.

1st: Try new things a month before quitting them.

CMU Professor and Grandson of Freud, George Lowenstein, demonstrated that we are more likely to overestimate our capacity to learn a new skill and quickly give up.  Doing my best to combat this, I am attempting to stick to a new challenge each month and see both if I can do it, and how it makes me feel.

The month of January, I am a pescatarian. (For the yinzers reading this, that means that I am a Catholic during Lent Fridays.)

One week in to the experiment, I have already noticed:

• I eat a ridiculous amount of meat in a given day.  
• It's super tough to go out and eat without meat....including Indian food, which is just ironic.
• I don't feel any healthier right now.
• I do like the haughty comments that I get to make about not eating meat. 
• I grew up on a farm and still have no qualms about eating any animals.

I'm pretty confident that I will be able to keep this up for a month, but I'm unsure if I am going to continue this into February.  It will most likely depend on my weight/physical appearance.  (Shout-out to vanity.)

2nd: Stop buying so many clothes.

I have a lot of shit and very few tangible assets.  In fact, if you look at my net worth...I'm sure that it would be overwhelmingly in the red.  That being said, my new year's resolution is to only purchase one piece of clothing (or less) a month.  This includes watches (even fancy hipster ones), fake glasses, hats, shoes, etc.  It doesn't include underwear or socks, because I always seem to lose those.

Combining this effort, I am also getting rid of some of the clothes that I have.  My sister has an entire floor of her house dedicated to clothes.  That's awesome for her (and something that I occasionally get jealous of), it's not something that I need in my life.  So, I am also trying to make a once-a-month donation to Goodwill.  This isn't part of the resolution, because I feel like I'll eventually get down to the things that I need and don't want to get rid of things just to get rid of things.

7 days into the new year, and I'm already going strong.  Let's hope that this year is filled with new adventures, responsible spending, and less clutter.