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As in past years, DH and I have our Christmas gift budget planned out for the 15 or so people we plan to buy for. However, this year is slightly different as my brother has terminal cancer--according to doctors, he has just a few weeks left, though we all know that God is in charge and NOT the...

OK - so on the holidays, we're forced to be with some of our more 'interesting' relative, whether we like it or not. Last year, my crazy youngest sister got married in the reptile house at the Evansville Zoo - just to get things off to a festive start. I am pretty sure I ended up trading her to...

Soooo..... yesterday was my niece's baby shower. She's 25, and the baby daddy is 40+ and has multiple kids with multiple other women. Whatever. My daughter and I came about an hour early to help my sister get things ready, and there were about 25 guests. We eat, play games - all the usual...

When I was born, my mom was married to a man from Massachussets. Shortly after I was born, he and my mom got a divorce. She and I moved back to Fla and I never knew anything about my real dad. All these years (57) to be exact, I have known very little about him except his name and that he was...

jason and i are doing a genealogy tree. we were not able to find anything about my dad's side for awhile. i fianally got my grandpa's name from my mom when we were coming back from meijers. jason looked on ancestry.com and found a lady that was looking for info on my dad and aunt's (the original...

We just moved my Dad here a year ago. He is now 87 - turning 88 this summer. He lived 8 hours away and I have 2 special needs needs which made it difficult for me to always drop things and run down there. He got to the point to where he was calling 911 for every little sniffle. There was...

My dad originally introduced me to relative deprivation and I thought I would share with the rest of the class. It bugs me because I'm pretty sure relative deprivation is what gets a lot of people into spending problems. It doesn't help the credit has allowed people to buy things that they...

:crackup: The nursery down the street is selling off it's business. Which includes the nursery itself AND a second business that is empty. It would make a great coffee shop, craft consignment store, thrift type store, bakery, etc etc etc. They want 165,000 (maybe less!!!) for the whole...