Seaturtle, is Meals on Wheels available in your community? That way some of the food is coming to you, instead of you going to find it?

 I've been using Mint.com and I find it very handy and pretty intuitive. Takes some time to set it up, but worth it, I think!

Kathleen, I think we need a Canadian to chime in here because I'm not familiar with either one of these terms, RRSP or segregated fund. If you could give a little bit of background information on what each of these are, I might be able to give you my opinion, but as it stands, I don't really know what to tell you. Good luck!  

Pax, what an exciting time for you! I'm not sure what it's like where you are, geographically. We live in Michigan and home prices are very reasonable here right now. A year and a half ago we bought a small, one-bedroom home that had been completely updated in 2004 for $17,000. We looked for 5-6 months prior to buying. It took that much ...

 Hi RAO, I wouldn't recommend an empty gallon water jug -- but rather a one-gallon glass container if you can find one. The plastic jugs may leach weird flavors or aromas into your wine. (There is a kind of plastic called "better bottle" that won't give weird flavors or aromas but they generally cost about the same or ...

Homemade refried beans. I cooked a pound of pinto beans, made refried beans, and put them in the freezer. Nobody else in my family cared for them, but of course I wouldn't throw them out. They didn't taste bad -- just not the same as the canned. But it was a lot of beans for one person to eat.  I know there are more. That's just ...

 Four years ago I was feeling incredibly stressed in my job. They announced layoffs and I wasn't one of them. After much soul-searching and discussion with my husband, I asked to be laid off in place of one of the others. Immediately I felt a weight lift from my shoulders. In retrospect, early 2009 wasn't probably the best time to be ...

 Mint.com allows you to set up specific long-term and short-term financial goals alongside your monthly budget. It doesn't go so far as to tell you where to take the money from, though... I think that kind of decision is personal, and just depends on what you're willing to give up and how quickly you want to have the money ...

 You could do something like a tomato/corn/avocado salad. 

It can be very, very difficult to stay quiet sometimes. I was at a work function and a young co-worker mentioned her student loan debt. Another co-worker said "It's okay, we ALL have debt." It was all I could do not to wave my hands and say "not me! Not me!"