Poll: How should Guy Fawkes be celebrated?

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

While it is a fun occasion, fireworks on Guy Fawkes Night has caused much conflict over the years, upsetting our pets and disrupting the sleep of neighbours.

How should we celebrate Guy Fawkes Night? Vote in our poll and share your thoughts below.

How should Guy Fawkes be celebrated?

• With a city-wide public fireworks display
• Small fireworks displays in each community
• Keep it as is
• We shouldn't celebrate it!
• Anything but fireworks
• Other - I'll share below

Vote View Results

• 29.1% With a city-wide public fireworks display
  29.1% Complete
• 19.4% Small fireworks displays in each community
  19.4% Complete
• 7.6% Keep it as is
  7.6% Complete
• 33.1% We shouldn't celebrate it!
  33.1% Complete
• 10.5% Anything but fireworks
  10.5% Complete
• 0.4% Other - I'll share below
  0.4% Complete

2598 votes

Addictive Eaters Anonymous

The Team from Addictive Eaters Anonymous - Wellington

I was spiralling out of control

I don't have many memories from my childhood, but the memories I do have relate to food - picnics with bacon and egg pie, my mother’s home cooking, Sunday bread. I was never much of a sweet tooth, but instead I preferred savouries, pastries, breads and the like. I grew up on a farm and food was plentiful and was never restricted and I lived a pretty healthy, active lifestyle.


Once I hit my teenage years, however, I remember starting to get worried about my weight. (I'll just mention here that I don't think I have ever been overweight and I certainly wasn't overweight as a teenager). I'm not sure how this all came about, but it was around the time I started getting interested in boys and my body was changing. I would stare at myself in the mirror and think I was fat.

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