Shortly after Santa packs up and heads back to the North Pole, people start looking ahead to the new year. And for many, part of that process includes making New Year’s resolutions.

After conducting a Google search in early 2019, I found an article on Good Housekeeping, titled, “35 Achievable New Year’s Resolutions for Healthier and Happier Living.” Reminiscent of supersized meals at McDonald’s and the pig trough of pop you can purchase through the Big Gulp line at 7-Eleven, the magazine is offering a mega menu in 2024 with “65 Achievable New Year’s Resolutions for Building a Healthy, Happy Life.”

That’s 30 more things than what they suggested just five years ago. At this rate, in another couple of decades, it will take people all year to even read the information.

With a subhead of “Make 2024 your year with these goals that will help you look and feel your best,” the article includes such things as drinking less alcohol, quitting smoking and building a better budget — which is somewhat laughable based on the financial impact of many of the suggestions.

Since I’m a shoe addict, I like No. 30 “Give your feet better support.” While it encourages starting the year on the right foot by buying a new pair of walking shoes, it’s really an advertisement for a particular brand and style.

With my household only consisting of my husband and I, No. 37 “Delegate more chores” isn’t very realistic. It does suggest utilizing a timesaving service by paying for someone to do such things as cleaning out your garage. However, the article recognizes that’s not within everyone’s budget and encourages considering a sort of “chore share” arrangement with a friend.

I wonder how long the friendship would continue if that person had to regularly vacuum our house. Because we love the General and Biko, we look at their abundance of hair as German shepherd glitter.

A couple of items in the list seem contradictory — No. 9 encourages people to “Make dinner easier,” while No. 5 says “Cook something new each week.” That just seems like too much stress, which is not healthy.

No. 24 “Jumpstart a new career” offers a rabbit hole for readers with a link to “7 Easy Steps to a Career Change.” Apparently, at almost 64, I don’t fall into the intended target audience for the article but maybe it’s a subliminal message for me to begin looking at retirement — thus No. 34 “Stop procrastinating on a tough decision.”

When John retired in 2016, people asked how long before I followed suit. My pat answer always has been when there are less days that I want to go to work.

I’m not sure when the pendulum will swing, but when it does I’ll likely have more time to tackle additional items on Good Housekeeping’s New Year’s resolutions list.