Your Most Hated New Year Resolution

Every year the time comes once again to choose what resolutions we are going make for the coming year. To be more organized, to spend more time with family and friends, to cut out excess stress? Although some are quite unique, most of the top 10 new years resolutions every year are the same. Year after year you hear people making the same pledges, I'm going to lose 20 lbs, I'm going to work out more, I'm going to get myself a better job.

My all time most hated resolution though, that I heard year after year and the people I know obsess over for a month, sometimes two, but usually for just a couple weeks - getting out of debt. Now the theory here is all well and good and in essence it's a really awesome idea but for most of us and especially in the current economic state, it really is virtually impossible. It's like the old saying "Robbing Peter to pay Paul" - this is essentially the story of most

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Many of the people that I have known that seem to take on this resolution unsuccessfully each year, they go at it very strictly, they can't go out for a drink after work, won't splurge on a new outfit for an event and start packing their lunch every day. These generally are the same people that 2-3 months later have cars full of shopping bags, have miraculously found the money for an exorbitant vacation and are looking at only the best summer camps for their kids for the coming summer vacation.

Whatever happened to moderation? How about you go out only a couple times a month, limit yourself to new clothes only when you find a really good sale and take a road trip this summer and camp along the way? Try something new, you just might find it works great.

By Katie Ham

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