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  1. Debt Reduction & Money Management
    I paid myself 10%, tithe 10%, and even added in health insurance for 5 of us(which we have been doing without for over a year). I was so proud of myself. I was keeping to my $400 grocery budget. Gave me and my husband CASH to spend so we have no leaking money. Then today.... I realized that I...
  2. Automotive
    Working on the DR plan, but have never agreed with the $1k clunker- where I'm from, a $1k car will be costing you another $500 a month in repairs, easy. Time to get rid of my '01, which at 132,000 miles is beginning to need extensive work, and we recently figured out we've been spending maybe...
  3. General Chat
    So in November, December, and January I kept my thermo at 55 degrees. I work from home and really like wearing shorts and a T-Shirt everyday but it was far too cold for that. So I decided I would make a trade off. I would stop using my dryer( it helped that it died) and air dry my clothes...
  4. Debt Reduction & Money Management
    DH's company had a 25% lay off last year. While he is one of the lucky one's who still has work, they had to cut down on the yearly bonus because nothing is coming in which is a 20% loss to us. We just got back from the tax lady. This bumped us down into a lower tax bracket which means we...
  5. Laundry
    So far, so good. I'll freely admit how skeptical I was about homemade laundry soap. I've tried the baking soda/borax mix in the dishwasher and it was pretty horrible, so I didn't expect much from the laundry soap. I mixed up a very tiny batch, just enough for one load, using equal parts...
  6. Health and beauty
    It's open enrollment time for my insurance's flex spending program, where you can have a payroll deduction so you have money put away to pay for your deductables, medicine and other expenses. I was interested in doing it because I still owe some doctors for my last year's out of pocket and I...
  7. Christmas
    So we tried to be a little more celebratory this year. this year we had a countdown calendar with a different activity each day for DS5. ok that was a tad ambitious by the week of christmas i was burned out and he was sick of lights LOL. Next year's countdown will be mostly book titles and...
  8. Debt Reduction & Money Management
    We paid CASH for the repairs we had done, WITHOUT using our EF !! I'm so happy about that ... I was so stressed about the thought of using up that money. My dh had worked so much overtime last week that we were able to use that money and pay for the repairs, top up the EF to $1000 again AND get...
  9. General Chat
    Friday afternoon I started having what I expected to be a pimple come up on my face. It continued to swell, and Saturday actually had my whole sinus cavity aching and was giving me a head ache. I called my oldest sister - that's what they are for isn't it? She got on the internet and came up...
  10. General Chat
    to someone that worked in one like a doctor or ob/gyn? For example, if your father was a doctor, would you want to be one of his patients? I wouldn't because I wouldn't be comfortable with it.
  11. Supplemental Income, Small Business
    Hi, Ronda here. I am fairly new here. I am wondering if anyone has ever worked for Live Ops. I have started the hiring process, but it seems to be taking a long time. I am really excited about finding an online job that I can do at home. Any info or advice would be great. Thanx in advance...
  12. General Chat
    Well, in preparation for tomorrows 'big storm' I went to gas up my truck after dinner as well as make a mad dash to the ATM to pay people back. As I went in to pay for my gas, the owner, whom I have not seen in a long time, recognized my car pull up. He said HI over the PA system (how...
  13. Utilities
    I bought a light timer for the chest freezer in the basement last month (on clearance for 1.25). I just got this month's bill yesterday and it had dropped by $8 over the average of the last 2 months' bills. Yay! Thas is in spite of running the blower on the wood burner nearly round the clock...
  14. Baking Breads
    My first time ever making bread and it was a success!!!!:thanx: Yea!!!! my dh really liked it! so did the kids!
  15. Dave Ramsey
    He gave me a focus and a new way of thinking about things. Pre dave: I will always have a car payment. Some debt is ok. I have these payments, so I can't save enough to cover anything that breaks down, so I must charge the car repair, new tires, etc. If I can afford the payments, a little...
  16. Scrapbooking & Paper Crafts
    wee hours of the night/morn. Can't sleep, had an idea and had to do it! Here's my page I did. I wanted to have something to show my favorite things to knit. (I'll do one for other crafts too later on) Instead of a traditional journalling block, i put together a booklet of my favorite, tried and...
  17. Careers
    Or know of someone who has worked for them? I'm considering applying for a seasonal job there, and I was just wondering how good of a company Target is :)
  18. Careers
    I see on their website that they were voted one of the top 100 companies to work for by Fortune. I'd love to hear your experiences, good or bad :)
  19. General Chat
    for only 2 hours. It gave me 15$. And for $3.00 I got: (normally-.85 each) 2 whole wheat bread 1 white bread 1 package of hamburger buns (Normally $1.50 each) 2 bags of chocolatines (normally $2.75) 3 pounds of soft melasses cookies (normally $1.25) 2 sugar pies :yippee: My friend...
  20. General Chat
    and it was a great experience, we had a 58% turn out at my place.the people were so nice. the best part was the pay. Has anyone else work the polls?if so did u enjoy it? One really great thing was all they young and new voters.so many people came out who would not have..i just hope they keep...
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