Posts by berry987

I highly recommend Justin Roberts. I find most kids music painful to hear (Laurie Berkner drives me nuts), but Justin Roberts' songs are clever and have great beats and I pop in his CD even when the kids aren't in the car. It's great...

I hear you! I keep fantasizing about a 3 bedroom house with all my kids in one room (right now my two sons share a room, and we have a 3rd on the way), an office/guest room (we need an office, my DH works from home) and then a tidy...

Okay, I checked it out some more. Apparently the china pattern is still being manufactured, but I couldn't find it online at any big retailers (i.e Macy's). Some people are selling pieces on EBay but no one has a single bid. That leads...

We are over-extended with our house. We bought more than we could afford at the time and since then my husband took a new job, with a pay cut, that enabled him to work from home. I am a SAHM, currently pregnant with my third child. When...

I sold some cans of formula on Craigslist. They were pretty large cans and I think I had 3 or 4 of them and I sold them for about 1/3 the retail price. I think I made $30 or so. They sold on the day I posted.

I have a real problem with the massive amount of china and crystal we have sitting in a china cabinet in our dining room. In seven years of marriage, we've used the stuff twice (and that includes one time when my DH made me dinner for...

You guys are awesome...and make me laugh. And no one is a booger. It's nice to see other people struggle with the same fantasy game. I know there are other crunchy types on my area, I just haven't hooked up with them yet. I have a...

I am trying very hard to simplify our life and have made major progress in the last six months or so. I don't buy much anymore, we reuse a lot of things, we've scaled back our eating out and shopping trips, etc. I feel like we are ready...