Tybee
Senior Member

It's snowing here right now. I am not ready for this.

I'm always glad someone is willing to do decorations, as I am pretty negligent in that department. I put up and wreath on my door one string of blue...

One of the students at the Great Lakes Maritime Academy in Traverse City was on that boat. Until we moved there, I had no idea about those...

The colors this year in Maine and New Hampshire have been the best we remember; I think it is a product of the weird summer weather and late warmth.

I have taken to buying Christmas tree ornaments at the county fairs from felters and the like. I like to support them and the ornaments are not...

For those of you hesitating to donate food or money to food banks because you fear that unworthy people will receive the food, another great place to...

I like that you concentrate on fresh things only. Maybe forego the plastic garland by the fire and just do more fresh things on the mantel? I...

My husband just checked with the food pantry website as to what they needed and took a shopping trip and bought a cart full and dropped it off...

I thought you kept basset hounds in your moat!

Ditto on the champagne diamonds, they are so beautiful!

You need to sell the diamonds to a different jeweler, Rogar. Old mine cuts are really big right now and no one in their right mind would cut one down...

Yay you for calling the insurance person!! Hooray for the great news.

If you want to feed leftovers to cats, grind them up with rice and tuna oil in a blender.

I think that's great advice, Siouz. Going without is so risky, and I really like the suggestion to get as much done before the end of the year.

My Part D premium is nine times what it was 2 years ago.

That's an interesting map, with the different states' responses. This administration seems hellbent, literally, on hurting the poor and the...

Oh Siouz, that is horrible. I can see how you would want to wing it, and May 2026 is pretty darn soon.

Thank you! Catherine, I doubt it will happen fast enough because the class is supposed to start on Monday and I just found out about it. They said...

Thank you, and thank you Happystuff. I am going to use this to encourage me to adjust spending accordingly, and this will be where I start, since...

Just lost my next class because govt. shutdown halted military tuition assistance, so that's about ten percent of my income this year.

thank you, Alan, for posting this, and miss you, TMS.

Thank you, that's a great idea, to donate to them. It's a wonderful program.

That sounds like a nice new refrigerator! We should do the same thing and probably will before the snow falls, just to make it easier to get it...

for context: The Harvard Crimson

Oh, no, that is terrible, I am so sorry.

I'm feeling more like Oscar Wilde, "Either that wallpaper goes or I do."

And it looks like Trump will be taking that one away, too: HHS Layoffs: Meals on Wheels and Other Services Face Cuts - Newsweek

I know the /s means sarcasm, and so you might want to check out this article about the status of hunger in America: America’s Hunger Crisis Is...

We actually have a wood bank here, for firewood. I am encouraging my husband to go volunteer to cut wood with his chain saw. They are getting a...

Tradd, add me to the people who donated, thank you for the heads up! See it's headquartered in Geneva, where we used to go to church.

I am so sorry that is happening, Catherine. Sending prayers for recovery and mental relief.

I will definitely check that out. I have been struck by how interesting the show is--I think I am enjoying it much more this time and did not...

Sounds great! I made a big pot of vegetable soup and now will freeze seven containers so that turned out to be very frugal; garden vegetables like...

I hear you on dental costs. I have set aside money but keep not wanting to spend it. Ugh. We had to spend $5500 on one of the dogs last week,...

That is so pretty.

Take the jewelry in and have it appraised before you decide. I recently had a ballpark appraisal on a ruby ring and it was for 3500; they have...

If you don't need them I might just hang on to them. My sil did that when her mother died and the price of gold has gone up 235%, between 2019 and...

Wow, I checked last year's prices on that AARP plan for Breo and the price was 94 dollars for the year and now it is up to 850 dollars for 2026, same...

It's so weird, Rosa. With the plan you mention, which sounds like it, with the first year premium being that 107 (how can they do that??) but they...

Oh, man, take it easy, and heal up! Glad you got to the doc and she acted quickly!

Wow, this is not ringing any bells, and I was present in those years. Good for her!

I totally don't remember that. A healthy candy shop? When was this?

They don't seem to cover the asthma drugs, not really. BP and statins tend to be really cheap drugs, I think? At least that is what I am seeing on...

This is what we need to do. We have found that even getting a hamburger at a hamburger joint is about twenty dollars for one person, so now we are...