These are things I'm planning on never doing, just because everyone else does them. (could be a bad reason, but all you have to do is think a bit on what people vote for, and how popular certain things are, and I'm justified.)
One: I will [probably? no, I think it's definitely] not ever read/watch the Twilight series. (I refuse to call it a saga. Pft. Saga applies to awesome things like Lord of the Rings. But, seeing as how I'm never going to read/watch them I can't hate on them. I wouldn't have read/watched them anyway, but then I had a small moment of "ooh, that trailer didn't actually look so bad and the review wasn't so bad either", but then I watched a few clips and I'm okay with never reading/watching them. Some things should not go in the attic*)
Two: I will also not ever read a Stephen King novel. (too popular--also probably something that shouldn't go on the hard drive**)
Three: I will not watch Titanic. (at least not all the way through...this was a resolution I had but then it was playing in the background and I ended up watching it but missed several parts so I can say I haven't watched it completely and the resolution is thus intact. Slightly. But it's definitely something that shouldn't go in the glass***)
And that's all I can think of thus far.
Oh. Four: I will not write a zombie book. (also too popular--but probably wouldn't have been a problem anyway. But you never know, so this is going on the list.)
I could add some other things everyone does (like putting on suntan lotion when it's sunny and hot) but those are ones I'm happy to do, so they won't go here.
How about you guys? Any things you're not going to ever do? Or at least try not to do?
And I could add a tentative five being never watching Star Trek out of devotion to Doctor Who, but since Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch decided to act in one movie now I'm not so sure, since I'm definitely going to watch it. So maybe the new series with Picard I won't watch, but the older one with The. William. Shatner. I shall watch. Maybe not sure. Besides, Star Trek isn't a popular thing "everyone" does, so it shouldn't go on the list anyway.
* The original form of the Sherlock Holmes quote about things you shouldn't--I'll let him explain it. "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it."
** The form of the above quote as retold in Sherlock: "Listen: [gets up and points to his head] This is my hard-drive, and it only makes sense to put things in there that are useful. Really useful. Ordinary people fill their heads with all kinds of rubbish, and that makes it hard to get at the stuff that matters!"
*** The form of the above above quote as retold in Elementary: (well, okay, there was the one where he restated the first: "Attic theory. I've always believed the human brain is like an attic: storage space, facts, but because that space is finite, it must be filled only with things one needs to be the best version of oneself. It's important, therefore, not to have useless facts: the natterings that comprised your support meeting, for example, crowding out useful ones." and then there was the one where he was walking along with Watson and trying to explain how she was being stupid or something and picked up an innocent bystander's cup of water, dumped it out, filled it mostly up with oil, pointed out how good and clear and golden and happy it was, then put water in it and pointed out the bubbles and the horrible dichotomy and other such things I've forgotten)
The three asterisks are rather good guidelines for this year, actually, aren't they? (See, Dad, it's also important (and you could extrapolate Biblical *wink*if I could remember the correct verses) to watch TV and have the Internet so you can look up quotes like these)
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