Half the fun of making New Year's resolutions is seeing how close you came to keeping them the year before. Here's a simple trick for keeping track of those all-important plans.

Close to the arrival hour of the New Year, gather all your family members and have them pen their resolutions in a notebook. Tuck the book into your box of X'mas decorations and pack it away.

When the box comes out of storage the next year, pluck out the book and put it aside until New Year's Eve, when the contents are shared out loud among your family.

Give each of yourselves a pat if a resolution was fulfilled, and if not, try again the next year.

This serves as a good way to enforce your resolutions, while giving your kids and family something to look forward to every year.