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I had unauthorized charges on my debit card for the first time in November. I suspect it happened when I tried buying phone minutes online. Not for sure though. Someone got my debit card...

I've got this two-tiered lazy susan that I bought at a thrift store for 99 cents; I put it in one of my kitchen cabinets and use it for storing spices. Larger bottles on the bottom tier and shorter...

I gave away 6 or 7 books last week. I'm feeling the urge to purge my books again. I sold a few collectibles on ebay, probably about 10 things or so. So about 20 things for November. And I feel...

I loved the Secret Garden as a kid, read it several times over. Another was The Westing Game, excellent book, I also reread it several times. One of my favorite picture books growing up, which I...

My birth mother doesn't use the internet...I don't think she's ever gone online at all. I've been plugged in since 1997, don't know what I'd do without it.

Things I don't get...
--spending hundreds of dollars on make-up.
--people who hate reading
--people who get hostile if you tell them you don't want to have kids
--people who hate cheese :0!

Personally, I think we should stay out of it. Let the Middle East handle its own problems. We don't need another war. That time, money, and effort would be better spent fixing things here at home.

Only $10,000 a month! I don't even get that much in a year.

Mortgage : $2,500. [$107--Rent]
Utilities: $500. [$85 in summer, a little higher in winter]
Gas for their Jeep Commander and Ford...

When you have no friends or family that are able or willing to help, there's really not much else to turn to. What are people in that situation supposed to do?



I don't see how the government...

So true.



Agreed. I see it more as a combination insurance/retirement program. I paid into the system when I was working and I'm glad it was there when I needed it.

Really, there's no...

I'm in Mississippi, it's hot here too. It's so hot outside, it just kind of takes your breath away. My car's air conditioner is broken and I can't afford to have it fixed right now, so having to go...

Agreed.

I'm on public assistance. It's not easy scraping by each month. I'm on disability (both SSI and SSDI) and food stamps ($41 each month, which goes really far with current food prices). I...

We were technically lower middle class but my mom was not good at managing money so the last few days of the month before payday, things were rough...for instance, no shampoo or toilet paper. We ate...

This reminds me of the last house that my mom owned. Whenever I would refer to it as blue she would try and correct me and say that it was gray. We even argued about it a few times. I saw it as...

Thanks. The experience definitely gave me an appreciation for simple living!

I find the show kind of triggering--my mom has hoarding tendencies and even now I still have dreams where I've gone back to live with her or have gone to visit and I'm helping clean up all the...

I hardly ever swear, mainly just when I'm driving. >8) I was raised in a rather strict household where we weren't even allowed to use the words butt, poop, or pee so I guess it just never became a ...

I got a 0! Perfect score! With some of my vision problems I wasn't expecting that!

I don't watch the news and am a lot happier for it. If I want to find out what's going on in the world I'll check online sources but I limit my exposure to the constant stream of negativity.

I just went grocery shopping this week. This is actually for more than a week, and some of this will last me on into next month; also it doesn't include things I already had on hand, like butter,...

1. Cheese (several varieties but if I had to pick just one, it'd be the shredded queso quesadilla that I get at Kroger)
2. Onions
3. Garlic (fresh)
4. Bacon
5. Chicken breasts
6. Lentils...

I appreciate you, Peggy. You put things into words much more eloquently than I ever could.

Also, WBC...ugh. Terrible people.

I find it disturbing that anyone would celebrate someone's death and make horrible statements aimed at the suffering family. Comments on internet articles make me want to weep for humanity sometimes.

I'm a frugalist. Think I've got to much clutter to be a minimalist. ;)

I have depression too (dysthymia and major), along with OCD, social anxiety, and ptsd. I don't know what I would do without my pet cat. She's the only reason I'm still alive. You may be able to...