No Year Resolutions

Happy 2016 blogosphere friends! What a surprise when I looked back at last year’s post and discovered that I had actually achieved all five of my 2015 New Year blog resolutions. These were my Project 333 resolutions, unfortunately I had made other resolutions in different areas of my life with which I failed miserably, like joining the local library – perhaps I'll get round to it this year?

My Project 333 goals for 2015 were:

1.       Recycle the remaining 35 clothing items – all gone, including the Aquascutum coat which hung on valiantly until the end.

2.       Keep the overall clothes total at 80 – done, currently

3.       Restrict any new purchases to strictly technical clothing – done, and there were quite a few purchases too… However, I did manage to recycle some of the older technical clothes and those that did not really fit to one of my FB group’s refugee project.

4.       Keep to a colour scheme – done, the brown has now all but disappeared from the capsule. This encouraged me to sell a brown-themed Lovelinks bracelet on FB and generate some funds for my favourite dog charity, Twilight.

5.       Tackle the remaining areas – shoes, bags and accessories.

Throughout the year, the principles of Project 333 spread to many other areas although the barn is still harbouring some junk. The sewing machine found a new home in return for a donation to Twilight and I started to play the clarinet again. A major change was the decision towards the end of the year to become vegetarian – or at least as vegetarian as is possible in France.

So, now it’s time to make some resolutions for 2016 and hope that I can keep them. But wait, why make more resolutions? I’ve recently started using Headspace, a mindfulness app, and I believe this is beginning to have a positive influence. So, why not just aim to enjoy a simple, reflective life and keep doing ‘more of the same’ along the path to minimalism? That’s why this year I’m not making any New Year’s resolutions.

Bonne nouvelle année!