General Chat

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

  • The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
  • You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
  • And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
  • The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Boards

Quick Search

Single word search

Tools

Findmypast DNA Banner

Icons

  • New posts
  • No new posts
  • Thread closed
  • Stickied, new posts
  • Stickied, no new posts

a good idea seen on facebook

Login to Add Reply Watch This
ProfilePosted byOptionsPost Date

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 5 Mar 2019 16:50

Instead of giving up sweets or chocolate for Lent. each day of Lent put aside one item of clothing or anything you no longer use or want (or even something you do use that would be of use to somebody else, I suppose to stay in with the idea of Lent). At the end of Lent donate everything you have set aside to a charity shop or similar.

Researching:
Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 5 Mar 2019 18:14

My OH has just said I won’t fit into a bag! :-(

Researching:
Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 5 Mar 2019 18:17

Surely it could fit into a huge 'vacuum' storage bag? :-D :-D :-D

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 5 Mar 2019 21:11

:-D :-(

Researching:
Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 5 Mar 2019 22:04

Okay, how about 5 bin bags :-D
Edit: by that I mean big black bin bags.

It's a brilliant idea, I may try it :-D

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

eRRolSheep

eRRolSheep Report 5 Mar 2019 23:55

Another idea - and could do this over Lent but it is better over a year - is each day you put away a penny and the following day you increase it by a penny and so on.
So, 1p then 2p then 3p etc.
By the end of the year you will have "saved" nearly £670 to use either as a treat or to donate.
However, if you do it just over Lent you will have put aside £8.20 which would pay for a decent meal and a coffee for a homeless person. The best of it is, by the end of Lent you would only be putting away 40p on the last day so you would hardly notice it.
I have written an Android app to show how much to "pay in" each day, how much to put in extra if you miss a few days, how much total is saved etc.

Researching:
Happy