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Why are those two little words so hard? I NEED a glass of water, I WANT those new earrings. I NEED sleep, I WANT a manicure. Just how and where do you draw the line between a want and a need? To complicate matters even more, a lot of it really depends on your culture.
In America, most of...
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What’s a family on furlough to do with the holidays around the corner? How can you cut a tight budget even tighter? These are questions I find myself asking these days, but I think I found an answer.
Along with making a lot of my gifts this year (baking goodies mostly), I’m...
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We’ve had a bit of rain at our house lately. Not literal rain, but the bad-luck kind. Man cub is having some school struggles. Tenth grade is proving to be tougher that we’d hoped. He’s trying hard, but still sliding down into the pit of “bad grades.” Then...
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Now, I’m not one to climb up on a soap box too often, but I heard something on NPR this morning that was so shocking, it caused me physical chest pain. The Sacramento Board of Supervisors is looking at cutting funding to our local Child Protection Services Agency by 85%. They want to lay...
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Did you know that the #1 topic couples fight about is money? Anyone in a relationship most likely isn’t very shocked by that little statistic. Over the last 17 years, my husband and I have had more than our share of arguments caused by money. The thing I find most interesting is that no...
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Everyone has been affected by furloughs and the weak economy. From our homes not being worth what we paid for them to the high price of gas, it seems everyone I know is struggling to make ends meet (myself included.) Here are some ways that I recently re-assessed our spending and squeezed more...
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Last Friday my husband and I hopped in the car and drove to Lake Tahoe to elope. We had planned this only a few days before and felt like a couple of giddy teenagers as the music blasted and the car curved its way out of state. Man-cub had been gone all week in Wyoming with his grandparents and...
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Having been a single mom to young children and now teenage daughters (and unemployed hubby) I've learned a few tricks on how to stretch a dollar =) Here are my personal thoughts -
1) Trade with friends - need toys for kids? clothes? It may be old for them, but new to you and your kids! You...
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In this tightening economy and with the State giving us all IOU’s rather than a check, how can you make money out of nothing? I’ll tell you how (and it’s not by throwing parties or spending money!)
-Clean out that garage and have a yard sale. I have yet to clean out my...
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This economy is scary. Mom and Pop shops are folding like cards in the wind; people are losing their jobs, homes and futures. I worry more every day about what kind of a world we will be living in come another year or two. Teachers being laid off (again), schools closing… the wheels of our...
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My 14th wedding anniversary is right around the corner (October 1st), and I decided what I wanted most was to look sexy that day. You know, like I just stepped out of Sex in the City. All beautiful, confident and put together. We all know that when you look sexy and feel sexy then you ARE sexy. I...
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Ok… not really. I actually love both my dogs very much. However, our older dog Snack recently had to have a mass tumor removed from the back of her leg. My last month with her went like this.
- There’s a lump on the back of my dog’s leg. Hey honey! Let’s keep an...
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Recently I was searching forums and website trying to find a way I could work from home. We need more money and I absolutely refuse to put my kids in daycare. I was willing to try anything at this point, I just couldn't afford to. I read a post about a brand new business opportunity, new product...
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Faith is always something I've struggled with. My parents take the blame for this: they didn't want to indoctrinate their children, so we didn't go to church. The result was both my sister and I don't have a religion--sort of a reverse indoctrination.
I've always found the pageantry of...
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Okay - I know it's bad when I slam on my brakes for a gas station that has gas that costs $4.09 a gallon! (South Watt and Fruitridge - by the way)...
I WAS looking towards this summer - but to tell the truth - I'm starting to really worry about how I'm going to get...
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