Why we give?
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Sunflower, that is a big problem...but it maybe because their mother/grandmother never showed them how to do these things.
We cannot blame them for not knowing how to do these things...except I was taught that once you find a gap in your knowledge/skills, it is your responsibility to make sure you do something about it.
I still try to follow that maxim....and today with the internet and Youtube as a teacher, there is little excuse to stay clueless.
We cannot blame them for not knowing how to do these things...except I was taught that once you find a gap in your knowledge/skills, it is your responsibility to make sure you do something about it.
I still try to follow that maxim....and today with the internet and Youtube as a teacher, there is little excuse to stay clueless.
I can undertsand that too Less. If I lived alone I would starve.
I cook for others(himself, the tinlids,Ma...Nicola, Jim next door) much more that I would ever do for myself.
I think that fit single people should band together and form some sort of meal club.
I wholeheartedly agree, sometimes when you get a 16stone ex rugby player that died in a traffic accident, you waste more than you eat!
The RSPCA were established in 1824 as the SPCA - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Royal patronage follwed in 1837 and Queen Victoria gave permission to add the 'royal R' in 1840, making them the RSPCA as their more commonly known today.
The Queen is patron of more than 620 charities and organisations.
As much as I dislike the royals,she's done quite a bit for charity in this country so I say good on her.
But lets not forget she is kept by the taxpayer and there are folk that do much more valuable work for charity than the royals, and they don't get reports/articles in the media trumpeting about their work.
Royal patronage follwed in 1837 and Queen Victoria gave permission to add the 'royal R' in 1840, making them the RSPCA as their more commonly known today.
The Queen is patron of more than 620 charities and organisations.
As much as I dislike the royals,she's done quite a bit for charity in this country so I say good on her.
But lets not forget she is kept by the taxpayer and there are folk that do much more valuable work for charity than the royals, and they don't get reports/articles in the media trumpeting about their work.
I didn't realise that there were that many of them killed along the main drag in AccyI wholeheartedly agree, sometimes when you get a 16stone ex rugby player that died in a traffic accident, you waste more than you eat!
...still you live and lear...well, most of us do!
Our peg went missing over a week ago while walking the dog, I'm not bothered about the Mrs but there's a reward for the safe return of the dog.
I rang greenbank they said I should "expect the worse"
So this morning I've been down age concern and got all her stuff back
I rang greenbank they said I should "expect the worse"
So this morning I've been down age concern and got all her stuff back
Yes, Margaret, I think many of us were in the same boat as far as the small amount of money there was in 'those' days. I have no idea how my mother managed in the way she did, always making sure we had sufficient food - have a feeling that she must have very quietly gone without a lot of things herself to make this happen. Never complained. There was never any spare cash to waste but we accepted that as being the way it was.
Such a different concept of money these days - some Smart Alec has come up with a suggestion that kids should be paid 25 cents a day (from the Government, therefore from the taxpayer) as a payment/reward if they eat more vegetables and fruit at school. One young student (looked about 10) was asked if he would do this and his reply was 'for 25 cents, I don't think so!'
Such a different concept of money these days - some Smart Alec has come up with a suggestion that kids should be paid 25 cents a day (from the Government, therefore from the taxpayer) as a payment/reward if they eat more vegetables and fruit at school. One young student (looked about 10) was asked if he would do this and his reply was 'for 25 cents, I don't think so!'
"Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end" Robert Marley.
No, money will not make you happy....it just buys you a better class of misery.
Happiness is a very personal thing. Obviously you need to have some money, there is no happiness if you cannot pay your way.
Despite having very little money when I was growing up, I believe I had a very rich childhood. My parents gave us their time.....we played silly board games.....we listened to radio programs in the firelight, drinking cocoa and eating toast cooked on the coals.
We went fishing for sticklebacks with improvised fishing nets, we picked blackberries, we picked flowers....we slept out in home made tents.
Happiness is a very personal thing. Obviously you need to have some money, there is no happiness if you cannot pay your way.
Despite having very little money when I was growing up, I believe I had a very rich childhood. My parents gave us their time.....we played silly board games.....we listened to radio programs in the firelight, drinking cocoa and eating toast cooked on the coals.
We went fishing for sticklebacks with improvised fishing nets, we picked blackberries, we picked flowers....we slept out in home made tents.
There were some great plays on the radio in those days. Had to listen well and visualise. Cocoa and toast on the coals - you have certainly brought back some memories for me, Margaret. Long walks with my nature-loving dad, when I was small he would carry me on his shoulders for miles. Blackberry-picking, and eating them all on the way home - so no blackberry pie!
You have hit the nail on the head - parents giving their time, and quality time at that.
Before I started school I could play most card games - thanks to my dad teaching me these.
We didn't need a lot of money - no latest gadgets to buy to keep up with the Joneses. They didn't have any money either!!!!!
You have hit the nail on the head - parents giving their time, and quality time at that.
Before I started school I could play most card games - thanks to my dad teaching me these.
We didn't need a lot of money - no latest gadgets to buy to keep up with the Joneses. They didn't have any money either!!!!!
Yes, and that is why I buy nothing from Oxfam.
i dont buy from oxfam or donate to them because i think africa has had more than enough from this country
i also think local charities need our help more but then again i think there shouldnt be a need for cancer research and macmillans nurses teh government shoudl be funding them instead of funding china , india, pakistan , etc etc and so on
i also think local charities need our help more but then again i think there shouldnt be a need for cancer research and macmillans nurses teh government shoudl be funding them instead of funding china , india, pakistan , etc etc and so on
I also try to use local charities, but I also try to spread my donations around a bit.
I buy most of my designer clothes from BHF.......and donate them back when I am fed up of them.....books too, I have a kindle but still cannot resist books from the charity shops.
They are really only on loan as I donate them back when I have read them......sometimes still priced up.
I buy most of my designer clothes from BHF.......and donate them back when I am fed up of them.....books too, I have a kindle but still cannot resist books from the charity shops.
They are really only on loan as I donate them back when I have read them......sometimes still priced up.
It's an admirable thing...I suppose I shouldn't judge, I'm pretty rubbish at a lot of things but those things I see as really simple. And as for the last bit yes, I can't remember who said it first, but I often paraphrase the quote 'In the information age, ignorance is a choice'!
One of my bugbears is folk claiming poverty whilst buying takeaway dinners several times per week!
I wholeheartedly agree, sometimes when you get a 16stone ex rugby player that died in a traffic accident, you waste more than you eat!
It is nice to read that. In my experience, the people I know of who had all the money in the world (think private schools and swimming pools) as children had by far the more inferior childhoods I've know of, some to the point of downright neglect/abuse. It's easy to lose focus I guess, if you're a parent who is also avaricious or materialistic, or power-hungry. It can be that they forget the more important of the roles. Not at all saying all parenting turns out this way, far from it. But those things you mention are definitely the more enriching in early years.
I don't think money can make anybody happy. I think needing more money than you have can cause one to be UNhappy, but that as you say is very personal.
Also nowadays it seems all things material are easily come by, even to those who are poor. Credit means everybody can have what they want, at a price. I see a lot of 'plastic millionaires' in the industry I work in. They have the car and the clothing and the home comforts...None fully paid for. I would be a bag of nerves if I lived like that.
I know this is a very simplistic view but when I found Oxfam shops to be full of new fancy goods, and noted how often they advertise at peak times, I stopped viewing them as a charity.
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Oh Cointreau mong Cherry!
Money per se may not, but the things that can be achieved if you've more than enough to chuck about most certainly would! I don't necessarily mean on personal gratification, although some little longed for dainties wouldn't go amiss, just think how many donations you could give to your favourite charities/causes, help to friends & family in difficulties, or random acts of giving & kindness to total strangers who appear to be down on their luck purely for the altruistic pleasure of it. Sounds like that'd make me happy if I had that ability all because I had quite a few bob spare. Oh Cointreau mong Cherry!
You may have a point there son...but it is far more deliberate to give when you have little to give.
If you have much and donate some of it to good causes, or helping family and friends than of course you are spreading around a little happiness...but you are never going to miss what you have given because you have plenty more where that came from.
But when you have very little, but give of yourself, or your time, then surely that is more worthy.
Do we not place too much reliance on material things?
Do these material things really make us happy? Ok maybe we get a buz from being able to go out and indulge in something for ourselves....but does that buzz fade pretty quickly as we move on to our next 'want'...so much so that we no longer see it as a 'want' but as a 'need'.
Just thinking out loud.....I am sure I was happier as a child than the children of today seem to be....but then that is relative because we can never really have a definitive answer.
I certainly never heard of any child saying that they were 'depressed'...bored maybe, but depressed never.
That saying isn't true......health is first every time. If you do not have your health then all else is miserable.
Ask anyone who has a chronic health issue and I think they will agree.
Ask anyone who has a chronic health issue and I think they will agree.