What did you give up?

[crazylegs]

That being said, having been sick for the last week (I hate this!), I have by default given up alcohol. And I think we all know how much I love my beer. This makes me a sad panderer.

So it would appear that a beer a day doesn't work to stop you from being ill then...?

[Jack T. Chance]

You poor, sick, misguided bastard. What in the hell were you thinking.

I would give up beer before I gave up women. We all know how much I love beer.
I would give up rum before I gave up women. I do likes me some rum.
Hell, I would give up all booze before I gave up women!

I would probably give up most, if not all, tv, a good amount of foods I love, porn, and even my goofy hats before I gave up women. I'm sorry, but I am not only a romantic at heart, but I am a HORNY romantic, damn it!

Jack, seriously....what on god's green earth were you thinking, man?

You know, I had a very long post explaining myself, typed up and ready to go... then I hit the wrong button on my computer and accidentally deleted it!

Fuck it, I'll type it up tomorrow... I'm tired and don't feel like having to retype it all right now.

[Becks]

My joke with customers when the subject of Lent comes up is that the thing that I am giving up for Lent is giving things up!

Bella and I have done that for years.

Grams and the nun great aunts weren't horribly amused.

[Jester]

My joke with customers when the subject of Lent comes up is that the thing that I am giving up for Lent is giving things up!

You see, I once decided to give up women for Lent...

You poor, sick, misguided bastard. What in the hell were you thinking.

I would give up beer before I gave up women. We all know how much I love beer.
I would give up rum before I gave up women. I do likes me some rum.
Hell, I would give up all booze before I gave up women!

I would probably give up most, if not all, tv, a good amount of foods I love, porn, and even my goofy hats before I gave up women. I'm sorry, but I am not only a romantic at heart, but I am a HORNY romantic, damn it!

Jack, seriously....what on god's green earth were you thinking, man?

[CaroPhoenix]

I was raised Baptist (Lent? Papistry!!) and am now traditional Anglican but often mistaken for Catholic.

Giving up all sweets, and meat. Pretty standard, for me. Though one time I gave up reading, and nearly went crazy!

Isn't Anglican just Catholic-lite?

I gave up Pop Tarts one year. It was the only thing I'd eat for breakfast, so finding something else to eat got old really quickly.

I have survived the no local fast food restaurants ... so far.

[JoitheArtist]

I was raised Baptist (Lent? Papistry!!) and am now traditional Anglican but often mistaken for Catholic.

Giving up all sweets, and meat. Pretty standard, for me. Though one time I gave up reading, and nearly went crazy!

[Jack T. Chance]

I only tried giving something up for Lent once (I was raised non-denominational Christian, but am now a devout Agnostic) and I won't make that mistake again!


You see, I once decided to give up women for Lent... And it's the Lent that never ends! Now I can't find a woman to save my life!

At this point, my balls are so blue, you might think they're black!

Any attractive, single ladies on the board that'd like to help me take care of that problem?

Yeah... I didn't think so.

[Bella_Vixen]

Day 1. Drank 1 Pepsi. yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

[Broomjockey]

actually, that was kind of code

Please don't use us as an excuse.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I was raised Methodist, and now I am not religious at all. I have never done Lent. I suppose if I had to pick something it would be some form of junk food. Or maybe TV.

I have a friend from college who always gave up chocolate. Another gave up cursing one year. She put money in a can whenever she slipped, and donated it to something (I don't remember what).

Facebook. Yes, I've deactivated my account. I know it sounds silly, but it's something that for a while I thought I couldn't do

Oddly enough, I just signed up on Facebook last night
I really did it so I could see Ex's Pablo tribute on his page, but his computer is being fixed so I don't know when he'll be able to log in and respond to my friend request. I have some other friends on there, too. Though I predict I will have the world's most boring FB page.

[Bella_Vixen]

As usual, I am going to try to stop swearing.

I've gotten a lot better because where I work now, I can't just leave the register to go scream in the cooler/back room.

And going to try to cut down my soda intake. I managed to do this when on Weight Watchers. I went from having 2 Pepsis a day to 2 a week.

[SengaKitty]

I honestly don't know what I'd give up. I look around, first at Sir, and go "Nope, not giving up sex", then at my cigarettes. If I give up those, I'd better give up sex, cause I have to have my after sex cigarette. I'd also have to give up coffee if i gave up cigarettes cause I have to have one with my coffee. I've determined I'd be a bad Catholic. Ah well. I'd probably give up chocolate and sweets all together. At least it would be good for my waist line.

ETA: I wasn't raised anything until I was 10, when my mother who was raised Episcopalian converted to Judaism and I converted with her. Less than a year later I found paganism, and have been a practicing Pagan for the past 11 years.

[KiaKat]

I was baptised Anglican, and raised Congregationalist. We didn't really give anything up for Lent, although my mom was raised Catholic (even went to Catholic HS and college), and the rest of the family usually gave something up.

I've been vegetarian for the last 15 years, so giving up meat isn't on the books.

I work in a wine store and am studying to be a Master Sommelier, so giving up booze doesn't really work.

I don't eat too much candy or chocolate, so I could give those up, but, frankly, during certain times my chocolate is the only thing that keeps me sane.

You'd have to pry my coffee out of my cold, dead hands. Not happening. The resulting migraines are miserable, and not worth it.

Sex? HAH. I'm not tormenting my poor (Jewish) boyfriend with that.

Besides, these days, I tend to follow the Jewish holidays as much as the Christian ones, and as Jester said, there are many that require *actual* fasting for a day. I find those to be a bit more personally affective than the Lent concept of giving one (or a few) thing(s) up for 40 days.

But, of course, that's me. Others may certainly have their opinion.

I do expect today to be quite slow, as <store> is in a heavily Christian area, with many people being *very* religious. I've seen a number of ashy foreheads walking around.

And, although I have a few interesting observations, I'll leave it there so as not to write a novel.

[Becks]

This year, I'm giving up my after work Pepsi.

And perhaps french fries. (See the getting in shape thread.)

I have hopes.

[smileyeagle1021]

Feel free to PM a mod if you're worried about such as this.

Rapscallion

actually, that was kind of code for I was too embarrassed to admit it publicly