Posts by OnEarth

I've struggled with this since I was a child. For me at least, part of it was having a really intense emotion that I didn't know how to express appropriately. Usually it was anger/ embarrassment, not sadness. If you are anything like...

  Quote: Originally Posted by Smithie    My biggest single quibble with Mint is that you can't delete transactions - so if you want a fresh start tracking spending for 2011, tough luck, you are...

Definitely- certainly for gifts that stay here in our home but even for gifts going to other people's homes. It had made gift giving harder for some people, who I know have everything they need. I don't want to buy something they will...

Ha! I was just coming to ask a similar question- i.e. what, if anything, is anyone learning for themselves. I'm going to come back and read the responses later, but thanks for asking the question. Lately I've been lost in a see of...

Quote: Originally Posted by Drummer's Wife  I had a final for my health/fitness class on Monday, my final clinical for my nurse's aide class yesterday, and my final exam for that class today.  I sold my...

  Quote: Originally Posted by Eeyore35  I struggle with only one. I wanta baby so bad! everything with m ydaughter is both a frit nad a last, and I find it REALLY hard. i"m not ok with an...

  Quote: Originally Posted by cheery  My first thought when I saw the title was this is about letting go of our attachment to STUFF - that is becoming less dependent on STUFF just as we have become...

ACK! My mother actually just said to me "she (dd) is almost two now. I guess it's time to start thinking about having another one." I think I looked something like this> plus plus some nose wrinkling and are you crazy...

  Quote: Originally Posted by Theresa42  I have a 4 yr old daughter and a 4m  old son. I don't really remember the moment when my daughter became a big kid so there is a blurred line between those...

  I'm in the same boat. I would like to recenter the focus of Christmas/Winter Holiday to be about less materialist ideas and more family/giving oriented. I haven't been very successful in figuring out just how to do that. DD...