[Spontaneo]

A Form Of Social Skills

Gathering and “gambling” can be quite enjoyable and not really need to have money involved! Such activity is called BINGO!

My form of bingo is unique. Maybe I can teach you to do the same.

We gather at a cafe where I used to work. We play for donated items (prizes). Different people donate the prizes and even bingo participants such as myself bring in items. For example, I recently donated a gently used pair of New Balance sneakers. I never wore the sneakers but had bought the sneakers from a Salvation Army thrift store.

This past week, I personally won 2 boxes of Panera Bread k-cups!

You are allowed to play with 2 cards.

We are allowed 3 bingos. Once you have had your 3 bingos, you can choose your prizes. You can then play for a coverall, in other words, until a person’s card is filled up first. That person is allowed a 4th prize.

Then, if you gather at a nice place in the community, such as a cafe, you can have coffee and/or lunch together. I bring my own drinks and pack my own lunch. If I wouldn’t, all of those cafe loaded nachos and sugary soft drinks would accumulate on my belly and on my wallet too!

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How is this self-help you ask?

There are so many healthy activities that you would like to do but cannot as cost too much. Bingo gets out the stress that has been building up. Sure, I have heard people make fun but I do not care. Unless you want to donate, bingo our way doesn’t cost a penny. Can’t afford lunch? Pack your own!

It really is nice to be blessed every so often. Quite often a donation is mysterious. The prize shows up on the bingo table but people have no clue who and how. For example, a good friend of mine is the bingo caller. When I spotted the Panera Bread k-cups, I asked her where they came from. She said maybe another friend of our’s did but she didn’t know. So, I asked our other friend and she said that she didn’t! See how this can be exciting?

Then, there is a serious bingo member that I love to bless. She loves coffee too, right? So, a few months ago, I had a bottle of Jordan’s Skinny Syrup vanilla. I was tired of vanilla. So, I placed the bottle on the prize table before she arrived. Yep! She grabbed the bottle with her 1st bingo!

You become friends! You let out stress! You can put food and/or drink on the table and a ton of other things! It’s free!

All that you need to purchase is a bingo game set from your local toy store and a place to hold the bingo game!

C’mon!

[Fergal]

Bingo seems to be getting more popular here in Ireland and if there is low money involved and it is social it sounds like an enjoyable and fun way to get out and meet people.

[Spontaneo]

Bingo seems to be getting more popular here in Ireland and if there is low money involved and it is social it sounds like an enjoyable and fun way to get out and meet people.

Quite often, the prizes are really, really, good. 2 weeks ago, I won 2 boxes of Panera Bread coffee k-cups! Here in the United States, Panera Bread is an upscale restaurant... too expensive for my roommate and myself to dine at and the restaurant is in the city.

I donated a pair of New Balance sneakers that I bought at the Salvation Army thrift store and never wore. Soon, I am going to donate a pair of Reeboks that I barely wore and bought from the Salvation Army thrift store.

There are days when the prizes are all chocolates. There are days when the prizes are all various chips.

Innocent competition!

[cmoneyspinner]

When I was a kid I played a lot of games with my siblings. BINGO was one of those games. We played for hours.

[Spontaneo]

When I was a kid I played a lot of games with my siblings. BINGO was one of those games. We played for hours.

Why not get together with some friends and play?

[cmoneyspinner]

Why not get together with some friends and play?

It is not easy for me to get out and about, but sometimes my kids enjoy playing Scrabble with me.

[Spontaneo]

Why not get together with some friends and play?

It is not easy for me to get out and about, but sometimes my kids enjoy playing Scrabble with me.

I think that I have only played Scrabble once. Way too hard for myself! I do like playing Checkers and haven't played in a while.

[cmoneyspinner]

Checkers

Checkers? I have the most wonderful memory of this game. It was my dad's favorite. He had two friends who always visited our home on the weekend. My dad sat on the front porch with them, and they played checkers all day long! You could hear them laughing and talking. I always thought to myself, 'It must be really nice to have best friends like that.'

[Spontaneo]

Checkers

Checkers? I have the most wonderful memory of this game. It was my dad's favorite. He had two friends who always visited our home on the weekend. My dad sat on the front porch with them, and they played checkers all day long! You could hear them laughing and talking. I always thought to myself, 'It must be really nice to have best friends like that.'

I would play with a loved one when I lived at home with my loved ones years ago. He won some. I won some. We really did not compete. We just loved spending quality moments together.

[cmoneyspinner]

A simple game that creates lasting memories. Playing certain games is even tradition. In the Cuban culture, the old men love to get together and play Dominoes.

Cuban Dominoes: Much More than a Game — EEAbroad
https://www.eeabroad.com/blog/cuban-dom ... han-a-game

[Spontaneo]

A simple game that creates lasting memories. Playing certain games is even tradition. In the Cuban culture, the old men love to get together and play Dominoes.

Cuban Dominoes: Much More than a Game — EEAbroad
https://www.eeabroad.com/blog/cuban-dom ... han-a-game

Interesting. I do not know much about the Cuban culture and traditions.

[Jem Smith]

It sounds like a good way to get out of the house, meet people and have fun. Good for you.

[cmoneyspinner]

I do not know much about the Cuban culture and traditions.

Cuba is one of those countries where … it would be a wonderful place to live, were it not for its leaders. They made the country a GIANT GHETTO! When Fidel Castro died, the government had to force and enforce “mourning”.

[Spontaneo]

I have quite a few outings for tomorrow and one outing is bingo. Hopefully there is going to be some good new prizes.

I am going to donate a prize. For Christmas, a friend gave myself a gold necklace which is too small for my neck. I am not going to throw the necklace away. The necklace is very unique also.

Do you think that there are going to be any more K-cups as prizes? I hope so.

There are always chocolates to play for but I am a chocoholic, just like giving beer to an alcoholic. However, what is strange, is that hot chocolate (especially when I prepare my homemade mochas) does not bother myself. But a candy bar? I have to have another.

-- 28 Jan 2025, 21:47 --

Bingo was so-so today. I won a bag of sugar-free Russell Stover strawberry creme chocolates. A bag of Jolly Ranchers hard candy. A canister of hot cocoa.

About the gold necklace, I was showing some ladies the gold necklace before placing with the prizes for people to play for and a lady absolutely loved the gold necklace. I told her that she could have the gold necklace and she was so happy.

[Spontaneo]

As I like to quite often supply my good friend with some bingo prizes to play for and she has no clue that the prizes are from myself is hilarious!

I place the prizes with the other prizes before she gets there.

I am probably not going to be there this week, but I have a prize waiting for her!

Over the summer, I had bought a nice Keurig coffee travel cup at a yard sale! I have not used such coffee cup. I kept telling myself to save the coffee cup!

So, on the next bingo day, I am going to put the coffee cup prize where the prizes go.

[Spontaneo]

Checkers

Checkers? I have the most wonderful memory of this game. It was my dad's favorite. He had two friends who always visited our home on the weekend. My dad sat on the front porch with them, and they played checkers all day long! You could hear them laughing and talking. I always thought to myself, 'It must be really nice to have best friends like that.'

I have a good friend and she and I text each other every day. We have a ritual. We begin to tell each other the name of a pasta until we run out of pasta!

[eldavis]

Over here you hardly see plying this or even talking about it. It's not popular at all, just very few persons plays it.

[Spontaneo]

Over here you hardly see plying this or even talking about it. It's not popular at all, just very few persons plays it.

Do you mean bingo or talking about pasta?

[cmoneyspinner]

I have a good friend and she and I text each other every day. We have a ritual. We begin to tell each other the name of a pasta until we run out of pasta!

with my kids it used to be names of cereal.

Cocoa Puffs!
Fruit Loops!
Frosted Flakes!

[Spontaneo]

I have a good friend and she and I text each other every day. We have a ritual. We begin to tell each other the name of a pasta until we run out of pasta!

with my kids it used to be names of cereal.

Cocoa Puffs!
Fruit Loops!
Frosted Flakes!

Awe! LOL