My mother called me Saturday to tell me my sister is expecting her second child in April. Her second. DH and I have been trying to have a baby, really since before our marriage in 2007. My sisters first pregnancy in 2008 was an accident, followed 11 months later by this second pregnancy. I've...

Great book. I started it on Saturday and finished this morning. That's the trouble with reading & me. If I get into a book, nothing else gets done :laugh: Anyway, Drowning Ruth was really good, and I'm going to checkout another book by the same author. I like her writing style. The book is just...

Under debt, under stress, under fear.... In one month everything seems to be slipping down slope and I am scared... Since my Dd was diagnosed with Type One Dibetes at the beginning of this month.... my money has just flown out the window and we are more in debt than ever. The costs of her...

MONEY IS SOOO TIGHT, I am soooo frustrated, and I need help getting back to the basic bills and mortgage and student loan. Due to my hubby being off work sick for quite a few months, we are in such a bad financial state, it is ridiculous! I found this site a short while ago and I have been...

...in self pity? i'm not sleeping well... or if i am sleeping, it's excessively. i can't tell yet. but i keep waking up every time i am sleeping w/thoughts of what i should be doing, should not be doing, could do, should HAVE done, did wrong, can't change, etc. maybe it's overwhelmed instead...

This is so embarrassing. But, my boyfriend won't listen. I need a sound board, advice, something. this is going to be HONEST, long, emotional, and probably way to much information.. but i dont' know what to do anymore. i need a kick in the rear. I have been with BF for 2 1/2 years. I moved...

Folks, I just read this and honestly did not know about it. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Please take a few minutes to read it. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24982210/

We were debt free about two years ago and since then my DH job changed insurances. We couldn't afford $700/mth. insurance (yes, that's right!), so we had to start paying for our own. That has turned into a nightmare. Since then we have gone from pretty good insurance down to major medical paying...

Hello everyone :) Finding this site has given me hope ! I'm determined to try and pull myself out of debt no matter how long it takes me. I'll admit I was ashamed to even type the amount of debt I'm in, after writing it all down I just couldn't believe it. I owe $72,000 on my mortgage $491.75...

I'm giving it away, cooking it, eating as fast as I can and still I think I could feed a third world country! I'm thinking about taking sacks of it and just walking around town to the poorest looking houses and leaving it on the doorsteps. We have this bushel basket and everytime I get the thing...

Okay... I have sat with the bills, I crunched numbers... what the hell am I missing??? Where is it all going?? Am I the only one who has a greedy green gobbling goblin???

I'm on my way to get the mail, it's raining and an earthworm is on the road, so I stop and rescue it. It is frightened and wiggles away several times. I am sure I look like a dork, poking at something in the road in front of the neighbors but I persist and save it's life by flinging it back...

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CollegeandFamily/Moneyinyour20s/P101676.asp Saddled with college loans and credit card debts at a time when the job market is tight, they may be the most indebted generation of young Americans ever. By Christian Science Monitor Recently, when Beth...

Ladies, I don't even know where to begin! We are finishing cleaning out the other house today and there is just so much STUFF over here now, I don't even know how to start to put it all away. One of my main problems is that I have no kitchen right now, so pots, pans, and dishes must remain...

I'm drowning. My husband had $4,000 in back child support that we've never been able to pay off because we're always behind on bills, (We have an combined income of $1200 a month and the total of our rent, utilities and his monthly child support comes out to over $1500.) Anyway, he got dragged...