What Belongs on this Bingo Board?

If you ask for/give help in August, you can get an early copy of my book

Photo by Jem Sahagun on Unsplash

I’m delighted to see the special bookmarks going out to people who have preordered The Dignity of Dependence! (If you’ve preordered, you can claim your reward here).

The book comes out on October 1st, but I have at least one copy I can send out early to an Other Feminisms reader. I could do a simple raffle, but I thought it might be fun to do… a bingo board challenge.

The basic idea is that I (with your help) would come up with a range of ways you might ask for / receive help from someone in your community in August, and then I’d send a book or two to people who bingo’d.

I’d like to do a range of things that are easy to achieve and things that might mean a little bit of a stretch beyond your usual.

If I did this, would you like to play?

And, most importantly…

What kinds of help (asked for or offered) should be bingo squares?

• Central square: Ask for help (of any kind)

• Bring someone food

• Invite someone to your messy house

• Spend time with someone much older

• Spend time with someone much younger

• Answer “How are you?” fully

• Pick up a prescription for someone

• Ask someone to run an errand for you

• Watch someone’s kids

• Ask for someone to come over during a chore

What would you add?