I want to thank all of you who have read and/or commented on Another Perfume Blog this year. Getting to “know” you has been a highlight of my year, and I hope you will continue to visit during 2012. I hoped to write an eloquent post about how much I appreciate each one of you popping by to read, how happy it makes me to see a comment or a subscription or a “Like” pop up in my email, but I find that I just don’t have the right words. The only words I have are ‘thank you’, so I will use those. Thank you. May 2012 bring you health, happiness, and a few surprises to keep things interesting.
Today began for me with coffee, some baking (yummy scones!), and the making of resolutions. I fully embrace the spirit of perhaps unfounded, but nonetheless boundless, optimism that motivates resolution-making — and so I have made some fragrant New Year’s resolutions for 2012. I will:
1. Test every perfume I currently have in my sample closet.
2. Purge my perfume collection of a few albatrosses.
3. Keep more thorough and more orderly notes of the perfumes I test but don’t blog about.
4. Abide by the one in / one out rule of full bottles, meaning I must sell or use up a bottle before buying a new one. (I will allow myself one exception for the year.)
5. Wear my favorite perfumes at least a few times per week.
The first resolution currently feels the most daunting, but I’ve crunched the numbers, and it can be done! What about you? Have you made any New Year’s resolutions? Which do you think will be the hardest to keep?
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Happy New Year, Natalie! Glad to have discovered your blog in 2011, and to have rehomed your Esprit Oscar sample!
I think 1, 3 and 5 will be a stretch, or would be if they were my own resolutions. I just have a wishywashy one about buying as little as possible, and enjoying what I have more, whether my favourites or neglected samples, which are legion….
There was a d’ in front of the Oscar, but my predictive text facility is up to its usual mischief!
Thank you, Vanessa! And likewise. I love reading Bonkers, and so glad Esprit d’Oscar has found a good home (though wouldn’t you know a second vial made it’s way to me as a freebie with an online order? — luckily, though, since I retested it a few times before pronouncing it my worst of the year).
I hope your travels are going as well as can be.
Happy New Year, Natalie!
Thank you very much! Happy new year to you as well!
Very impressed by your “one in one out” resolution, Natalie. That is hardcore, even with the one exception! I admire you and will be interested to hear how it works out. It definitely makes sense.
I had a big purge on my samples a year or so ago as the massive number was getting me down. It was fun sending them off to new appreciative homes and I felt a lot better afterwards.
Like Vanessa, I don’t really have any hard and fast resolutions apart from trying to buy decants rather than full bottles.
Wishing you a very Happy New Year and hope you are happily settled in your new home.
And happy new year to you, Tara! I’m pleased one of my resolutions has been deemed hardcore.
I will definitely report on how it works out!
I’m curious: how did you decide which of your samples to send on and which to keep? I have a few samples, decants, and bottles that I’m on the fence about. It would be interesting to know what others’ selection criteria are for keeping.
Natalie, my rule with those I was on the fence about was that if I didn’t fall for it after 3 testings it was to be “moved on”.
BTW I really like your new banner/header thingy.
Thank you for coming back and sharing that, Tara. And, thanks for the comment on the banner!
One in – one out is a scary rule… I’m not sure I’ll ever get to that stage
I hope this rule doesn’t apply to decants. does it?
Real life (work, home stuff, etc.) keeps interfering with the important task of writing my own NY resolutions! At least I know (more or less) what they are – all I need now is to put them together and find a picture to go with it. Shouldn’t be that hard, right?..
No, it does not apply to decants. Thank gosh! In fact, I just broke down and ordered a few tonight.
I am rapidly finding how difficult it is to find time to do things that appear to be very simple, so I can understand not finding time to put the resolutions together.
#3…I want to do this! My notes are all scattered and trashed. I want one fresh, orderly notebook dedicated to my ‘fumes.
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