Mmm I’m having a bit of a rough go of it currently, I’m seeing some fantastic activity going on in the lodges of friends but I feel a bit isolated in my home lodge as all members there have a lot going on in other orders it seems but even after my raising I wouldn’t be eligible to join the red lodge for a couple years...I left my mother lodge for an entirely different jurisdiction. It was a difficult move because of the friends/brothers I have there. Fortunately, I can still visit them when I get homesick.
bupton52 said:I left my mother lodge for an entirely different jurisdiction. It was a difficult move because of the friends/brothers I have there. Fortunately, I can still visit them when I get homesick.
Fees here are around $500 per yearMy mother jurisdiction allows life/endowed memberships so I paid for one. My mother jurisdiction allows multiple and dual affiliations so I did that.
Unless one of my jurisdictions goes nuts, or unless I go nuts, there will never be a reason for me to demit from my mother lodge.
Same here.My mother jurisdiction allows multiple and dual affiliations so I did that.
Agreed. After being raised the only two things that I really aspired to be were master of my mother lodge and DDGM. I am doing one now and will start doing the other in October.Unless one of my jurisdictions goes nuts, or unless I go nuts, there will never be a reason for me to demit from my mother lodge.
Wow!Fees here are around $500 per year
How did you handle it?I left the lodge I was raised in, Master 3 times and my son was raised there. It was a very difficult decision, very difficult.
Fees here are around $500 per year
370 US.$500?? That's pretty expensive! Where is that?
$500?? That's pretty expensive! Where is that?
I was a life member and a lodge trustee. I had a plural membership at another. I filled out the required demit form and asked to meet with the Master and Secretary who granted my demit. When they reported it to the Grand Lodge, I immediately became a life member of my plural lodge.How did you handle it?
Lol there isn’t a smoking culture here really-WOW ! $500 a year. Do you at least get Brandi and cigars afterwards? Lol