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The box caterpillars are living at our neighbours ……

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11252) • United Kingdom 6 Jun

You will remember the bother I had a few weeks ago with those pesky box caterpillars ….. I won’t go into too much detail but we had to get rid of a bush to get rid of them. The Mister went to the end of the cul de sac last night...

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Items for the food bank …..

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11252) • United Kingdom 16 Feb

Our local pub collects things for the food bank. Sometimes when I can get freebies that I won’t use I add them to the collection . A couple of weeks ago my Mom had a voucher for free …..let’s just say, ladies unmentionables ! She...

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Learning to Value Ourselves: Is It Wrong to Ask for Compensation?

Indah Fetha Andri Ariyanti @indahwow (122) • Yogyakarta, Indonesia 6 Feb

Friends on myLot, I would like to start a sincere and thoughtful discussion. For a long time, I have been used to helping others wholeheartedly, without expecting anything in return. I believe helping is a good thing. However,...

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On My High Horse Today

Loretta @noni1959 (13009) • United States 24 Oct

When someone constantly criticizes others for needing help, it really says more about them than the people they’re judging. Too many are misinformed, believing everyone who gets help is just “living off the government” or...

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What am I looking forward to ?

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11252) • United Kingdom 30 Jul

So, after my fall in April I have had to wear a brace on my badly broken upper left arm. There was a strap that held it in place that was wrapped around my body. This could not be taken off at any time. I could not get it...

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The Grandson watered the flowers …. And did the weeding ….

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11252) • United Kingdom 25 Jul

So, this evening the 13 year old Grandson ASKED if he could water the flowers ….yep, he didn’t need to ask twice . He did a great job. Next he was helping The Mister to do some of the weeding too. He was asking lots of really good...

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Are you a do-what or a go-pher?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Jun

MyLotter Kareng (@kareng) has been helping her husband with working on his boats and has been ordering some bits and pieces for him. When Vince and I are working on a project, he is the boss and I am the helper, although I often...

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I have been made an offer

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169406) • United States 29 Apr 25

We have a new student starting at the preschool level who has similar needs as my student who is moving up. It would be a half time job, as I wanted. It would be first thing in the morning, but I was hoping for a later start. I...

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Sunday, 26 January 2025

Bensen32 @Bensen32 (28658) • United States 26 Jan 25

Good Sunday to you all, hope your weekend has been a good one. Not a lot exciting about this weekend for me just been hanging around and getting some house cleaning done. I did go through some boxes that were stored away and...

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Short Story: When helping is not helping

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 24 Nov 24

John was seated in his local church with his wife, when she suddenly gave him a sharp poke into his ribs, and speaking out of the corner of her mouth, but still rather loudly, she said, "Get up John, and take up the...

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George tried to be helpful.

Kayla Tsukino @kaylachan (84701) • Daytona Beach, Florida 24 Feb 24

I have been having to order uber eats for groceries more recently because I can't just go to the store when I want or need. I needed to pick up some things for George to have some meals. So, when I told him, he tried to sit...

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How can we change the minds of people ?.

michael Arrigo @Itsonlyadream (239) 12 Feb 24

I was told many years ago that only bad news sells newspapers. That is what people want to read. The more I hear people talk is they say they don't buy newspapers anymore because they are tired of the same sad stories. Nothing...

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Daily Bible Study

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 23 Nov 23

Day 130 2 Corinthians 8:1 Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia: 2 that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the...

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Very shocking, I don't think it was the right thing to do

John nyambegera @thebos (5960) • Kisumu, Kenya 26 Jul 23

Well the path which the world is taking today, is not the one that I wished for. Yesterday I heard of some two boys who are basically teens and are very much obsessed with the social media. Well this two boys were making fun of a...

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A Few Things We Take For Granted

CarolDM @CarolDM (203396) • Nashville, Tennessee 1 Feb 23

The last couple of days I have spent lots of time on the phone helping my cousin. She is blind and rarely asks for help. Her daughter recently moved closer to her Dad, so she doesn't visit as often. I bought her a magnifier last...

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Money issues and love. Yet another side of it.

marguicha @marguicha (230331) • Chile 28 Oct 22

Many years ago ( exactly 13 years ago as it was when I joined mylot) I started my chemotherapy. After a couple of chemos, my defences were so low that the oncologist told me that she could not continue it if I did not have some...

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HELPING OTHERS COMES EASY, not for myself though! STRESS GRRR

Mac @myadventureneverends (61) 18 Aug 22

I went back to school so that I could help people and it turns out I am actually great at what I do. I am not just saying that because I am big in the head or whatever. I say it because of what others and clients tell me. Most...

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Short story: Sometimes helping, or trying to help, someone, more hinders them, than helps them

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 13 Aug 22

Fred Freestone spent most of his life on the streets. A lady social worker tried to help him to change his ways, to study something, and to make something of his life. [b]Fred had a gift though, which she knew nothing...

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Sunday, 30 Jan 22

Bensen32 @Bensen32 (28658) • United States 30 Jan 22

Good day or night to you all, Was a busy day today, have not been on here at all today. I did some cleaning up and organizing today and then went out and did some running around and stopped at my sister’s house and helped her...

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Good Deed for the Day

Bensen32 @Bensen32 (28658) • United States 28 Jan 22

I don’t know if any of you remember me post back around the new year about each of us trying to make the world a better place. I posted about sharing when we do something nice for someone for no reason. I said if we shared it...

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