Is it awful to borrow a friend's national trust card to get in free

[Twiglett]

to national trust places

when it is obviously a charity

or is it payback for the disgustingly foul and overpriced food they sell at such places?

Are you suggesting stealing from the NT?

you don't have to buy the food they sell. in fact, the big boon to having an NCT pass is picnics on the grounds of the attraction you're visiting.

as for 'borrowing' a friend's pass, no, that's not on at all.

that's stealing.

and these places are already struggling for funds.

we are national trust members who pay so I think you should pay too, it is well worthwhile as they are great for picnics and imagine how much keeping all that property costs..coast line and beaches too

Only if you would have paid otherwise, but not if you wouldn't have gone at all.

Twiglett you norty girl
get your own
we do

Yep, it's awful.

We'll we have a family membership, but having been completely lacking in the ability to go out as a family this year, I'll allow you to use the bit I've paid for but haven't used.

Could I have made that sentence any longer do you think?

Need to learn to read cos I just looked at this thread and read "wrong to borrow your friends CUSTARD!
Think I need a coffee!

if everyone went as much as they are entitled there would be no room

it's like the mustard left on the plate isn't it

you lost me on the mustard thing zippy....

Or you could borrow the bit of ours left over from dh losing his and having to pay in. So we have sort of paid twice over - go on have that bit.

Dunno 'bout 'awful'. Slightly norty in v small way.

Me too......don't like mustard

morally yes but I'd do it

coleman's make profit from the mustard people buy but waste

national trust expects people to use their membership less than they could

sorry but I think it's pretty bad. You'll get awful karma.

I always finish my mustard - especially the COlman's one with chilli.
And I have friends who frequently use their NT membership.

I used to be a member but am no longer. I would borrow a friends for a day with no worries. Don't tell anyone though, they don't seem too pleased!

I might consider doing it once as a 'free trial', but not as a regular thing. Those that pay are subsidising the non-payers otherwise, and that's hardly fair.

We have a family membership .

maybe this is why they have introduced the car park sticker?

Now if it was Alnwick Gardens, wouldn't feel one smidgley bit guilty..........

i would use it! we used to visit historical houses all the time when i was younger, my dad made a note never to go to a national trust house!

The mustard reference is because the Colman's mustard man (Mr Colman?) said that the money he made wasn't from the mustard people used, but from the bit they left on the plate. And the last few NT places I went to had really good food.

Twiglett, if money is the problem why don't you use your friend's card to have a nice day out, but find some other way of being saintly ? the Lio version of Moral Equivalency.

Join the National Trust for Scotland...it's cheaper than the English one, and you still get into the English properties free!

Wading against the tide here but yes I would do it as a one off (although not on a regular basis) even though I know I shouldn't. Sorry just being truthful.

charity! for pea brain aristo's who need their lifestyle subsidised. use the card, its too expensive otherwise.