I haven started yet, but I wanted to say a) I love this and b) I’m so glad you included do a face-to-face Buy Nothing exchange! I always find it a bummer when people want to do porch pick up etc… a big part of the mission is the embodied meeting of other locals!
I like the challenge to pray for someone, and I think it has been more humbling the times I have asked someone else to pray for me. I think expressing my dependence on God and others is more difficult (in a good way) than hearing someone else depends on me and God.
Kevin had a fun one this week: asking a friend of ours to come over to help install the new roof he built for the chicken run! Said friend's wife is pregnant (and welcoming reading recommendations), so I took the opportunity to send him home with a large tote bag full of pregnancy, baby, and childrearing books. We also had a kid's clothing swap at church this week, which I did not organize, but did participate in. I also let someone do part of my homeless ministry food prep for me (while at the clothing swap) because Tyche was refusing to nap and did not want anyone but me to hold her.
Clothing swaps are super fun. We did learn that we need to make sure people know you can show up just to take stuff, you don't need to trade. Notes for next year.
I'm playing along, I'm one away from bingo on my top row and this week is a promising line up!
I'll be watching various friend's children for between an hour and a day every day this week! (I strongarmed one of my friends *ahem* politely convinced her, to sign up for Catechesis of the Good Shepherd formation, and said I'd watch her two year old if she went.) Plus another friend's husband is switching to C shift for a few weeks, so I'll watch her two youngest with my youngest in the mornings, while she takes my oldest with her older kids to swimming lessons. A double hitter, since that can count as asking for help/a ride AND babysitting! Woo!
Thanks for making this bingo board! Hope your whole crew is feeling better soon!
(Also, re: watching and singing Les Mis, for me, breaking out into song and having someone else join in, especially a stranger or someone I don't know /that/ well is a real delight.
Not a song lyric, but a poem: I'm trying to memorize The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll for a backyard neighborhood talent show at my brother's house in two weeks. My brother and I used to recite it when we went for jogs together when we were kids and we thought, I bet we still know it! Well, that was over twenty years ago and I'm missing some of the lines in my head. 😅 But I'll have them by the show! Probably!)
I don't know if it's just good luck or mid-pregnancy necessity (buy nothing pick-up..), but I've managed to get almost one diagonal already! I just need to start a regular call with a friend, which seems like a steeper mountain to climb than the others.
At our weekly church picnic, an older couple I hadn’t met before approached me because they recognized a piece of medical gear my baby was wearing. It turns out three of their kids were born with the same rare medical condition two of my kids have—one that thankfully doesn’t usually cause long-term problems for the child, but requires a lot of treatment during the first year or two! I asked for the mom’s phone number so we could connect again if I had questions about their experience and she was happy to give it to me.
Having a neighbor keep a key is wholesome, but think first. Ask yourself, who else would have access to that house, and therefore your key? Is your house attractive in any way, like medication stored at home?
A quick search reveals that one in four people in America say that they know someone addicted to opioids. One in seven know multiple people.
Sometimes planning to use a locksmith if things go wrong is worth money.
I haven started yet, but I wanted to say a) I love this and b) I’m so glad you included do a face-to-face Buy Nothing exchange! I always find it a bummer when people want to do porch pick up etc… a big part of the mission is the embodied meeting of other locals!
Yes, I want the exchange to connect us! And maybe to hear/share a story about this object's life to date.
Right!! 😍
I like the challenge to pray for someone, and I think it has been more humbling the times I have asked someone else to pray for me. I think expressing my dependence on God and others is more difficult (in a good way) than hearing someone else depends on me and God.
Kevin had a fun one this week: asking a friend of ours to come over to help install the new roof he built for the chicken run! Said friend's wife is pregnant (and welcoming reading recommendations), so I took the opportunity to send him home with a large tote bag full of pregnancy, baby, and childrearing books. We also had a kid's clothing swap at church this week, which I did not organize, but did participate in. I also let someone do part of my homeless ministry food prep for me (while at the clothing swap) because Tyche was refusing to nap and did not want anyone but me to hold her.
Clothing swaps are super fun. We did learn that we need to make sure people know you can show up just to take stuff, you don't need to trade. Notes for next year.
I'm particularly impressed you handed off food prep!
I'm playing along, I'm one away from bingo on my top row and this week is a promising line up!
I'll be watching various friend's children for between an hour and a day every day this week! (I strongarmed one of my friends *ahem* politely convinced her, to sign up for Catechesis of the Good Shepherd formation, and said I'd watch her two year old if she went.) Plus another friend's husband is switching to C shift for a few weeks, so I'll watch her two youngest with my youngest in the mornings, while she takes my oldest with her older kids to swimming lessons. A double hitter, since that can count as asking for help/a ride AND babysitting! Woo!
Thanks for making this bingo board! Hope your whole crew is feeling better soon!
(Also, re: watching and singing Les Mis, for me, breaking out into song and having someone else join in, especially a stranger or someone I don't know /that/ well is a real delight.
Not a song lyric, but a poem: I'm trying to memorize The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll for a backyard neighborhood talent show at my brother's house in two weeks. My brother and I used to recite it when we went for jogs together when we were kids and we thought, I bet we still know it! Well, that was over twenty years ago and I'm missing some of the lines in my head. 😅 But I'll have them by the show! Probably!)
I wound up singing “Confrontation” with a dad at the farmers’ market on Saturday :)
I don't know if it's just good luck or mid-pregnancy necessity (buy nothing pick-up..), but I've managed to get almost one diagonal already! I just need to start a regular call with a friend, which seems like a steeper mountain to climb than the others.
But long term, compounding dividends!
At our weekly church picnic, an older couple I hadn’t met before approached me because they recognized a piece of medical gear my baby was wearing. It turns out three of their kids were born with the same rare medical condition two of my kids have—one that thankfully doesn’t usually cause long-term problems for the child, but requires a lot of treatment during the first year or two! I asked for the mom’s phone number so we could connect again if I had questions about their experience and she was happy to give it to me.
That's wonderful!
Having a neighbor keep a key is wholesome, but think first. Ask yourself, who else would have access to that house, and therefore your key? Is your house attractive in any way, like medication stored at home?
A quick search reveals that one in four people in America say that they know someone addicted to opioids. One in seven know multiple people.
Sometimes planning to use a locksmith if things go wrong is worth money.
The tradeoffs work out well for us!
A first step might be befriending a neighbor! :)
There are a lot of squares on that board for those who are playing. If anyone shares my concerns there are still lots of ways to win.
Yes! And you can switch in other options for your squares.