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Quote: Originally Posted by Tradd Pets are optional, they are not necessary - especially when finances are as tight as they are for the OP. I'm jumping in without reading enough here but wanted to say that...

Quote: Originally Posted by dakotablue Yeah...I'm not happy with the Fed right now. Not a good plan. I guess part of me feels that if $20 won't go as far in a year or two I'd rather have it pay off debt that doesn't...

We do a lot of homemade - paper chains, ornaments, pictures the kids drew in holiday colors, etc. I don't buy live decorations except we do buy a tree. We save our ornaments/decor every year and reuse it. You could make stars from pie...

I think the key is finding the balance among those three things that feels acceptable to you. cheap, fast, good I have had times when good/cheap was the priority, and though I was busy enough with my four little ones, I was not working...

Quote: Originally Posted by texmati Thank you for this thread! We live in 3200 sqft. and I can't keep up with it. We are 3, soon to be 4, but we bought the extra large home to put some distance between us and MIL; but...

For my family (four kids) we rarely do activities where it would cost more than $20-25 for our family, and that would have to be for a satisfying length of time (I'm not sure if you're doing a time cap?). With four kids and me, I might...

I read and then wrote something in another thread recently (the over 2000sf homes thread) that got me thinking in a newly-inspired way about decluttering. It's not the stuff, it's the space. By that I don't mean the shape of the...

Thanks for all the replies! I didn't find much on Overstock.com, but I can keep checking. I thought about buying Target's, but then saw in reviews that they were not good quality. I'm glad to hear this was not the experience of...

Time. And we go through cycles where we cannot find chapstick or nail clippers, even though we have several of each. And then they all converge again, and then they disperse again...

Quote: Originally Posted by doubledutch i can't believe some people have too many socks. i never have enough socks. i don't know what happens to them! i guess also part of the problem may be that i like nice socks,...