I finally did it...

Emmzi · 23 May 2006 at 11:57AM

How about setting yourself a target of ebaying £20 Worth of stuff a month to pay for sponsorship after listings fees?

beanielou · 23 May 2006 at 12:22PM

I too would continue with the sponsering unless I really really felt it had to go.
Great idea from Emmzi to cover the cost in another way

CosmoCat · 23 May 2006 at 12:22PM

jellycat40 wrote:

I think that in the scheme of things the money you give to sponser a child is something you could continue with. I have just been made bankrupt and the OR has agreed that I can carry on with my modest charity giving. Take the view that it is not the fault of the child you sponser that you are in the financial mess. How much difference to your debt free date will it make? Go without a couple of bottles of wine or something similar to pay your creditors with.

Well for what it is worth that is my opinion. Well done for joining the site and being a DFW.

Louise

thanks for that louise. what i will do is go without some of those beer filled evenings, so that i can pay for it. you're right, it's not this beautiful child's fault that i have no self control

thanks for your support

CosmoCat · 23 May 2006 at 12:24PM

Emmzi wrote:

How about setting yourself a target of ebaying £20 Worth of stuff a month to pay for sponsorship after listings fees?

i would, but i don't have any extra ebayable stuff in my house.

(will go have a look immediately)

i already sell my extra books on amazon, so will continue to do that. will also probably use my coin savings to do this as well.

cracking advice. thanks alot:T

lynzpower · 23 May 2006 at 12:25PM

theres no way i would give up sponsorship of a child. Theres plenty of other ways to cut back before this- at the end of the day its the price of 2 taxis a month probably, so no, there are easier & nicer things to give up first!

CosmoCat · 23 May 2006 at 12:31PM

lynzpower wrote:

theres no way i would give up sponsorship of a child. Theres plenty of other ways to cut back before this- at the end of the day its the price of 2 taxis a month probably, so no, there are easier & nicer things to give up first!

hi there lynzpower. hope your day is great today.

yeah, i'll cut back on anything else but that!! he's such a sweetheart as well. things would have to get real bad with me before i stop supporting him.

thanks guys:j

lynzpower · 23 May 2006 at 1:10PM

I think its a great move to keep him. You cant even get 2 drinks in most bars in london ( from what i can remember lol) for what it costs to give him a better life, youd have to literally financially devastated, which you are not as there are so many opportunities for you to get straight, to give that up, so put it out of your mind.

CosmoCat · 23 May 2006 at 3:30PM

listed 5 books on amazon today. came up to about £32 so that's nearly two months of sponsorship covered!!

lynzpower · 23 May 2006 at 3:59PM

Melabarrie, you might want to simulatiously list the books on https://www.greenmetropolis.com as well

CosmoCat · 23 May 2006 at 4:51PM

lynzpower wrote:

Melabarrie, you might want to simulatiously list the books on https://www.greenmetropolis.com as well

have done. never heard of them before. do alot of people visit there?

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