My mom and I have a very close relationship. She is my best friend. We share everything with each other. My husband and I are living comfortably, but because of a recent house purchase and remodeling and such, we've lost our cushion in many of our accounts. Of course, stressed about money, I yapped about it to my mom on the phone. A few weeks ...

  We don't have thrift stores in this area...other than goodwill. That place has raised it's prices so much that I can go to Wal-Mart and buy something new for cheaper than the "rags" they have in that place. I'm sure you could find a good deal every once in while there if you went on a regular basis. I don't have ...

My mom's birthday is next week. I usually have something for her gift well in advance, but not this time. I was planning on going to a local store and buying her a new top (as she's been mentioning she needs some new ones but doesn't have the money). However, we are in  penny-pinching mode now and I need to spend as little as ...

  Thank you for all the suggestions. I never thought about taking over a microwave! While we usually just use ours to reheat things, I know there's lots you can "cook" in one. Yes, we have access to trailers (we actually have 2 of our own), a co-worker even has a box trailer that they said we could use. If need be, ...

Wow. My dh finally admitted (aloud and to another person) that I (ME, YES, ME!!!) could take all (okay, most of) the credit for us easily getting pre-approved for a mortgage to buy a house!!! I'm a sahm and have scrimped and saved and payed off debt for the past 5 years. Anyway, now that all that hard work has paid off, it's time to ...

  We have a separate savings account...the IRA was supposed to be retirement, as in money to live off when he retires....In this day and age, he'll probably have to work until he dies anyway....I will look up the book, but I know my husband won't be on the ball to stock up on things like that. Yeah, pretty sure we don't have ...

I voted for 5: losing home, losing job, rising grocery prices, medical bills, and retirement. We are currently renting, but were seriously considering buying our first home since the housing market is so low. We'd get the loan and everything fine, but I'm afraid to do it. What if we buy a house and then the economy gets worse? We'd ...

Let me first explain that I'm totally clueless when it comes to stocks....while the stocks were going down down down, I was all like "too bad for everyone that's invested in them". I didn't know that my husband's IRA is stocks! Right before all this bad economy stuff started, he wanted to yank everything out of it, but I ...

For the past month, I've been debating on doing AF or not. I "almost" ordered the a box for Nov, but just couldn't do it. I'm afraid of the sheer dissapointment that may result from the box. I thought I'd order the regular box just once to try it out. It seems to have a lot of meat in it, but we usually only get chicken ...

Okay, I'm looking for advice from anyone who works from home: How do you get your work done, get your basic housework done, AND care for and entertain the kids????  I'm a SAHM. My oldest is almost 5 and goes to preschool half a day 4 days a week. My youngest is 3 1/2 and home with me all the time. This year was the first year I ...