Lent? What’s everyone giving up!

[Crazyhousewife23]

So as the title says and it falls on Valentine’s Day this year! What bad habits is everyone wanting to kick and get a head start on that failed on New Year’s resolutions

Social media - Instagram and mumsnet! Am trying to plan what I'm going to do instead!!

Men.

I need to give up opening my mouth and putting food into it.

Nothing. A load of bollocks

Too many restrictive rules run our lives as it is. I am going to do the opposite of giving anything up.

Nothing. I'm not religious.

Am I going to be a hypocrite and eat pancakes on Tuesday anyway? Damn right.

Sugar (as indulgence not a diet), social media, amazon parcels (I order things endlessly, little things but still it is almost constant and too materialistic)
I'd like to get into a habit of reading rather than scrolling (I have some books set aside), thinking more about what I could improve in my behaviour, spend time with more quality (hate the word but it makes sense) and attention to my family
Oh and I need to self discipline myself. A lot. I need to study.

DH always gives up alcohol for Lent.

So he’s prepping this weekend by making sure that he’s having a few drinks. 🤣

All of the above!
I like the idea of giving up Amazon /vinted - that’s my biggest vice at the moment.
I am still dry from dry January and taking it to Easter Sunday would make it 3 months, so I might continue with that as well.

And Absolutely I’m not religious and too damn right I’m having pancakes 🥞 😋

Absolutely nothing.

Mumsnet! 😂

Alcohol and chocolate 😬😂

Definitely sugar, possibly also other crisps and treaty stuff. So maybe I should say snacks. I am too in the habit of rewarding myself for getting to the end of the day by eating.

I could do with a lenten book recommendation.

I'd like to take up being in bed by 1030.

Maybe I can combine the early bed with a bit of prayer time.

Nothing, I don't observe Lent as I am an atheist. However, probably alcohol and meat if I was a Christian.

I'm giving up Easter Eggs for Lent.

@ZenNudist oh yes bed time. I'm aiming for 11pm which sounds unrealistic but I need to try.

Also Rosary and I'd like to learn some Latin prayers by heart. That's on the religious side.

If I give anything up for Lent I'll die of boredom rather than ill health

I like the bedtime curfew idea so I might fast between the hours of 11pm and 6am

Alcohol and sweets, cake, biscuits. The very good thing about poor old St Patrick dying in the middle of a bleak Irish Lent a millennium and a half ago is that in Ireland we get a day off in mid-March. Do have to go to Mass (where we get to say Alleluia and the Gloria) but then it's sweets and booze for the rest of the day.

I accidentally read the whole Bible between the end of December and yesterday. I've taken a day off today, but think I'll go back and re-read the Gospels and the Epistles in Lent and forever long it takes after that to finish them.

Hope

crisps and alcohol

the kids are giving up youtube

and i said i thought it would be nice to do something to help others too. street litter picking and helping out kids at school.

and donating to charity too.

my youngest makes her first holy communion this summer so trying to set a good example.

When I was about 15, and during a convent school assembly, Fr Basil told us 'Lent isn't Weight Watchers!'

I've never forgotten it.