[quote user="Pat"]I never seem to have any problem with leftover food because I eat it or freeze it and use it later. I don't understand the question that comes up around the holidays - "what am I going to do with all this leftover food?" but I may be in the minority, or even alone! [/quote]   Pat, I agree with ...

[quote user="MarthaMFI"]frankly I need to work on all areas[/quote] I'm with you!!!!!!  My freezer is so full, I can't even get an ice tray in it.  I opened the pantry this morning and 2 bags of chips fell off of the shelf.  There was a terrible ruined onion smell in the pantry and I dug around until I ...

[quote user="phygar"] If you bought any size of "Snickers" candy bars you can just throw them in the freezer [/quote] We live in the country, and have no trick or treaters.  I buy the Snickers with the sole purpose of sticking them in the freezer.  Eating frozen Snickers is my hobby.  ...

Tonigt we are having hamburger steaks, mashed potatoes and salad.  Will have to run to the store to buy dh lunch stuff for work.  There is no place to grab lunch where he is working out of town.  Will send  it in an ice chest for tomorrow and the rest of the wk.  Have a couple of loads of wash.  Ds and dh went to the ...

Dear Mommatothree, Thank you for your kind words. When we think about the fact that God knew our child and his ways before we did, it is humbling to think that he still chose us to be his parents.  He could have chosen someone with more patience, more education, more knowledge than we have or more money to pay someone else.  But alas ...

[quote user="Cheryl"]On a humorous note.. I was telling my husband about this post, and the bill from a boy being circumsized, and he's a young adult now..and he laughed and said what will they do if the parents don't pay.. re-attach? (grin)[/quote] Dear Cheryl, Thanks for your post.  Your dh's question was the same ...

[quote user="Walt34"]A free public education is offered to every child in the country (The quality may vary but that's another topic.) and all of this household budgeting stuff is grade-school arithmetic.[/quote] Walt34, Not to be unkind, but I beg to differ with you on the free public education.  Between the taxes, the monthly ...

Last night dd and dsil  came to pick up their dd that I was watching.  They usually don't stay more than 5 min.  They had been there almost 1 1/2 hours when I realized they were not leaving anytime soon, so I decided to look for something I could make for all of us.  I grabbed a bag of shrimp from the freezer and 2 ...

[quote user="jillibean"] She's eating as much as she always has, so we don't know why she's so skinny unless it's the diabetes[/quote] Dear jillibean, Has your sweet pooch been checked for heartworms.  We lost our's one year.  We did not know she had them.  We had her treated, but it did not ...

  I have seen so many strange things for sell lately.  Indiv. wrapped potatoes for baking, peanut butter by the slice, indiv. pkts of peanut butter and some of honey.  I have seen pancake mix in a spray can along with icing in a spray can.  Brownies made up a frozen so all you do is tear of the plastic and pop them in the ...