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Borough Beeswax: Buzzing About New Year's Resolutions

Some borough residents seemed resistant to the idea of tradition for tradition's sake; others offered a new spin on the practice.

The first day of 2012 marks an opportunity to make new beginnings, change old patterns, or to try something new. Patch asked Collingswood residents about their New Year's resolutions, and got a variety of answers.

Borough woman Liz Hoover said she makes a New Year's resolution each year, but they usually only last a couple of weeks.

In 2012, Hoover hopes to get better grades and exercise more.

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Lorraine Carey, of For Heaven’s Sake, says she’s abandoned the practice of resolutions “because I never keep them anyway."

“They last a couple of days,” Carey said, adding that the last resolution she recalls making—years back—was “to be a better person, and I think I’ve done that.”

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After a lunch date at , Nicole Gaspari, Ashley Radcliffe, Kimberly Vogt, and Katie Wilson didn’t feel much like thinking about New Year’s resolutions, although they echoed a popular refrain: “To lose 10 pounds and to quit smoking.”

barista Colin Moran plans to undertake one of those goals, and hopes to finally kick the habit after 11 years. Moran ballparks his chances at "40 percent successful."

“I need to convince myself of all the money I’m going to save,” he said of quitting smoking.

Most resolutions center on self-improvement; at DiBartolo Bakery, Jane Donnelly joked that she wanted to improve the way she commutes.

“I need a car,” Donnelly laughed.

Donnelly's coworker, Virginia Moler, who will become a mother in April of 2012, said, “I’d love to wear real-people clothes again.”

Borough resident Nico Sanchez said he wants to focus his New Year’s resolution on character traits, and hopes that by cutting down on procrastination, he'll have more time for creative pursuits, like art and writing.

“(I want my New Year's resolution to aid with) things I should be working on,” said Sanchez.

In town to visit their grandmother, sisters Amanda and Melissa Carter talked about wanting to improve grades in college and to visit the gym more often, respectively.

The pair also offered a concise one-two punch, which explained motivations behind their New Year’s resolutions.

When asked why we make little deals with ourselves around this time of year, Melissa thought for a moment and said, “Rewards."

When asked why we break them, Amanda quipped, “Laziness.”

 

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