It’s that time of year when, feeling much fatter and unable to look another turkey sandwich or chocolate truffle in the eye, we resolve to: get fit/lose weight/write that novel/call our mother more often.

At the end of each month the local council where I live IRL posts through each letterbox in the town a glossy little book. It’s a nice, A5 book full of local articles and advertising: the kind of useful thing each householder should hang onto in case the washing machine conks out or the heating breaks down and they need the number of a local plumber or gas fitter, etc.

For months and months I just threw these books on the top of the basket where my newspapers, magazines, and catalogues go. And then, clearing out that basket on the day before the recycling bin was collected, I thought: “Why on earth have I kept all these books from six months ago?”

At that moment I decided to have one place for those books: the little rack in my kitchen where I tend to keep my ‘information’ stuff (such as the wheelie bin collection dates). Now, every time a new book comes through the door I take the old book from the rack and chuck it in the recycling bin, replacing it with the new book. The January 2012 issue arrived today, and that’s what got me thinking about forming new habits.

I’ve just begun to form a new habit in SL, too, and I want to share that habit with my readers. To that end I’m publicly announcing it as my New Year Resolution:

In 2012 I resolve to: Deal with it NOW.

This means that, during my login session I will deal with everything that came to me while logged-in. I will:

• read notecards, trash the ones I don’t want (either if they don’t apply/I’m not interested, or after I’ve gone to pick up or buy whatever they’re advertising);
• unpack everything I buy/pick up/am sent;
• try on all clothing (and take pictures wherever possible, the better to build up a visual guide to what I own);
• rez everything else to see if I actually want to keep it;
• file everything in its relevant folder before I log off;
• delete anything extraneous (unpacker/hovertext/etc scripts, notecards, pose stands, extra landmarks).

That’s enough to be going along with, although if I think of anything else I’ll add it to the list. The main point is that I will deal with everything as it comes to me, rather than leaving it all to pile up.

Do you have any New Year SL Resolutions?