New Year's Resolutions

I suppose if I write them on here they are immortalised and therefore binding??  Slightly concerning...

1) Save £2 coins. 

This a challenge I have signed up to on Money Saving Expert.  Basically, every time I end up with a £2 coin in my change I have to save it.  I will then use the money for something useful, depending on what is best use once I have a reasonable stash.  So far, I've not received even one of these elusive coins, but resolution 2 may help with that.

2) Only use cash. 

I have a tendency to buy everything on my debit card, and because the bank is always a day or two behind, it makes it very difficult to keep an accurate tally of my finances.  Also, paying on a card, doesn't really feel like handing over money, as you're not visually seeing your money decrease.   I'm hoping this resolution may help me be a bit more careful with my spending.  Plan is to take out £35 every week as that is around about my weekly budget (for food, clothes, going out, shampoo etc.).  I will then try and only spend that... think it's going to be hard!

3) Only ever drink 2 alcoholic drinks on a night out. 

This isn't only a financial resolution though, I just don't make a good drunk.  I still, after all these years, do not know my limits.  However, two, I'm sure, will be fine.

4) Be more positive - try to dwell on the good things, rather than the bad things in my life. 

Ever since I've been working hard to sort out my debt, I've felt a huge weight on my shoulders.  More than when I was racking up the debt in fact, as I wasn't really thinking about it!  I've come to look at life rather darkly, and had a tendency to be jealous of others.  Facebook doesn't help... you get to see the wedding pics, the baby pics, the awesome holiday pics... All things that are a long way off, if they even happen, for me.  However, I have great friends, my own property, a supportive family, not one job but two etc., and need to learn to appreciate what I have.  Afterall, many are less fortunate.

5) Clear the house of all my tat and make some money!

This one is obvious - lots of boxes of stuff I need to clear from my house, and lots of money needed to help my debt problem = must get off my arse and sell stuff!  Besides, I'm sure it'll improve my feng shui to have a decluttered house ;-)