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30-01-2008, 12:25 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: West Oxfordshire.
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I thought I would post this now to allow all you bad bad  WABbers a chance to get thinking. Next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. So what are you all going to be giving up?
I for one will try and stop my intake of sweets, in particular wine gums and midget gems. I know it's only a minor thing but I love them and my teeth and waist line are suffering 
Over to you guys.
BWD
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30-01-2008, 12:28 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Little village called Chedworth
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Last year I gave up chocolate but this year I still have a ton of the stuff left from Christmas.... So I think I will give up crisps or cake or possibly both...... - Its has to be something I have often enough to remember I've given it up!! I've never failed because of temptation but only because I forget! |
30-01-2008, 12:48 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: North Yorkshire ( Gods Country )
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I am glad that you have reminded me about this... I shall be giving up buying my Daughter and budding chocaholic sweets and chocs,,,, She will thank me for it when she is older.....
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30-01-2008, 01:26 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Haydon Bridge (that's in Northumberland)
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Hmm....Lent. Let's see....I shall be giving up chocolate. All chocolate. So that's no coco pops, Green & Blacks, chocolate brownies etc. I shall be a nervous wreck by the time Easter arrives. But its also possible I will appreciate my Lindt Bunny Rabbit much more.... 
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30-01-2008, 01:41 PM
| | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: West Oxfordshire.
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Originally Posted by almostnormal  Hmm....Lent. Let's see....I shall be giving up chocolate. All chocolate. So that's no coco pops, Green & Blacks, chocolate brownies etc. I shall be a nervous wreck by the time Easter arrives. But its also possible I will appreciate my Lindt Bunny Rabbit much more.... | Ooooooh I've got a Lindt reindeer in my draw from Christmas. Back in a mo
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30-01-2008, 07:43 PM
| | Wild Member | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Cheshire
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I was always told the objective of lent was to give up something very special and donate the money saved to a charity, thus enriching both body and soul!
Does this mean that if a large number of members practiced this a large number of wildlife charities (if not this one) would benefit? Just a thought.
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30-01-2008, 07:59 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sheffield, FPRSY
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As a born-again atheist there is no way I'm going to get involved with religious flummery but it's not a bad idea in some ways....
I think it does help some people concentrate on what they have, what they waste, what other people/other animals/the environment suffer so this is a good way to make themselves and the world better by giving up luxuries and contributing to charities.
Doesn't really need to be on a particular week (or forty days or whatever) and, indeed, why not make it permanent? After all, for instance, someone giving up their single use of a large car on unnecessary journeys would be hitting the jackpot in three ways - not damaging the environment, saving themselves money and, thus, having a few coppers to give to deserving causes ... easy!
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30-01-2008, 08:11 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: essex/suffolk boarder
Posts: 422
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im gonna give up giving stuff up cause it never works apart from for smoking 11years and i hav'nt had any jack daniels for ages but thats cause i cant it dont agree with me pills i gotta take
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30-01-2008, 08:17 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: march, cambridgeshire
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Stop nagging my husband for not having time with ME. |
31-01-2008, 12:11 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Chilterns
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Originally Posted by almostnormal Hmm....Lent. Let's see....I shall be giving up chocolate. All chocolate. So that's no coco pops, Green & Blacks, chocolate brownies etc. I shall be a nervous wreck by the time Easter arrives. But its also possible I will appreciate my Lindt Bunny Rabbit much more.... | I think i shall give up work for lent - if the boss says anything i shall point out that its a religious festival and i have a right to freely practice my beliefs ... unfortunately she knows i'm an aetheist so that might not fly to well
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