A Homegrown Family: Paying it Forward.....

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Paying it Forward.....

"Pay it Forward" has been circulating through the bloggyland for a while apparently I have not seen it but it does sound interesting and I've decided to jump in on the fun. If you're not familiar with it, the basic concept is someone does something nice for you so you pass it along and do something nice for three more people. The Misadventures of Mub is paying it forward to me, and now is your chance for me to pay it forward to YOU!

Here's how it works. The first three people to comment on this post saying that they'd like to be included will get something handmade by me in the next year. What you must do in return is post this in your own blog and commit to sending something handmade to three more people. This doesn't have to be something extravagent and expensive, just something you think the other person would enjoy. I think it'll be fun doing some detective work to figure out what the people I'm paying it forward to would like!

So, who's in?

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MomzooMarch 14, 2009 at 11:34 AM
0-0-0-00000 me me me me!!!
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AnonymousMarch 16, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Looks like fun! I would love to participate if you don't have three people yet.
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The Old-Fashioned Homemaker. . .
~Does her best, and leaves God the rest.
~Does not indulge in self-pity, but loses her life in the service of her fellow man.
~Dresses to please her Lord and family.
~Guards her health as her greatest wealth.
~Knows that an apron is a girl's best friend.
~Knows that home-making is an art and a science, and is always learning something new.
~Lets her joy bubble out in song, all day long.
~Lives in His light, not her own.
~Loves Nature, and teaches her children to respect its Creator.
~Never gives up.
~Strives to be self-sufficient.

Thomas Jefferson’s 10 Rules to Live by:
1. Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have earned it.
4. Never buy what you don’t want because it is cheap.
5. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
6. We seldom repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. How much pain the evils have cost us that never happened.
9. Take things always by the smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten before you speak, if very angry, count to a hundred.

Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues
1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. MODERATION. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
11.TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
12. CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
13. HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Paying it Forward.....

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