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  1. Debt Reduction & Money Management
    I have been at the same job for 7 years and unless I got a raise my direct deposit is always the same.....always! I checked this morning and its $300 less than normal! :smhelp: A coworker said hers is $250 less so it has to be a mistake or something.....gah!
  2. Careers
    So I am resolved that tomorrow I am going to talk to my director about the complete mess of a petty cash system for the project I am working on right now. My supervisor told me on Friday that there is over $200 that has been spent that she can't account for. My colleagues and I have been...
  3. General Chat
    Ok I never talk about our finances with anyone but I'm freaking out here and need some sound advice. Throw some at me please! We have $300,000 invested in AIG and another $300,000 invested in stockes through ING. You guys have seen the news what should we do!? We called our...
  4. Financial hardship
    #1- Dh cars brakes just went kerfluey!!! Thank goodness no one was hurt. It was at a stop light and the brakes just went mushy...and stopped working. It is going to cost $1600!!!!! I don't have the money. He needs the car to get to work. Up goes my line of credit even MORE!!!! Will this never...
  5. Debt Reduction & Money Management
    Hi folks...I have been doing really well for a bit now, but today I am really tempted to go blow the budget...I am trying to listen to reason and distract myself with other things...any advice? Janet
  6. General Chat
    I posted awhile back about my husband possibly getting laid off...he kept squeaking by every time, well, not this time. He came home Friday morning and gave me the bad news. He is looking at about a 2-3 month layoff. And of course, I started freaking out. He already has a plan set in motion...
  7. Financial hardship
    American Airlines announced today that they are grounding up to 12% of their fleet. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080521/bs_nm/amr_dc My DH is a Captain at a Major Airline (not American) and I'm really starting to freak out. American is the largest domestic carrier and if it can happen to...
  8. Health and beauty
    So, I just got back from the doctor. Turns out, I have: pink eye sinus infection tonsilitis I should be from Texas...I like to do things BIG! Anyway, the doctor gave me an antibiotic to take. No problem. Except when I open the bottle, the pills are as big as the top section of my pinky...
  9. General Chat
    Headline in paper today "Man found dead in jeep" 1 mile from here. My FIL has a jeep, and I can't get ahold of him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've called the sheriff depart. and they are sending someone over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  10. General Chat
    I'm so ticked off... USAA Bank is having an issue with some debit card transactions. Some transactions are going through twice. If anyone banks with them watch your online bank statements. They claim that the error with my account isn't the same as the rest of the debit cards, but I'm not...
  11. Pets
    I just freaked out at the vets... well, maybe upset is a better word. I had to take a "sample" for our oldest dog since they couldn't get one during his annual checkup on Friday. So I asked about our youngest dog that hasn't ate since Sunday night. I get so worried over my furbabies!:cry: I...
  12. General Chat
    I just got accepted to the apartments that I wanted. There are nice and wonderful. I have lived there before with a roommate who was more qualified in rental history then me. Their apartments are literally the nicest and most hoty toty in the whole area. I got in because in the last three years...
  13. Frugal Living
    saying there was a security breach with my debit card!!!! They are changing all of my info on it and issuing me a new one but in the mean time I am scared to death someone is going to empty out my checking account. I called my DH at work and told him to keep an eye out on our account as well...
  14. Debt Reduction & Money Management
    Anyone else with debt freaking about the economy? I am. The more I read the worse it seems. I'm having a hard time deciding if we should save more or pay down more debt. Any insight?
  15. General Chat
    As they slept, the figure moved quietly down the stairs from the attic. He had been worried when he knocked over the box in the attic earlier in the evening, but the stupid woman below had been too frightened to come into the attic to check it out. Even her husband hadn't gone into the attic...
  16. General Chat
    Okay, so Rob has hockey tonight and he left about an hour ago. Well, about a half hour ago, as I sat here reading all of your fabulous posts, the house shook and there was a bang or a crash louder than I've heard in a looooonnnngggg time. My heart stopped and I got the chills. I got up and...
  17. Family
    i am so upset right now! Steve,Ashley and katie is gone to the football game (to cold for the 2 lil ones) Well,Ashley has a boyfriend,and yes I snopped in her room.........WELL It seems a few weeks ago at an away game THEY MADE OUT ON THE BUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek...
  18. Health and beauty
    Ok...for a long time I've been wanting to do something different with my hair. I have natural curly hair but wear it straight a lot. So I go to a hair dresser who is highly recommended by many people I know. I decided to get my haircut in lots of layers and I wanted bangs - like Kelly Rippa...
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