Summoned for the Green Card Interview
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | By Stellaluna
My Husband and I have been summoned to the green card interview. I don't really know what to expect because most of my knowlege comes from that movie "Green Card." So I expect they are going to ask crazy questions like "what color is his toothbrush?" and "What is the name of the lipstick I wear?" In the movie the two were just getting married so the man could stay in the U.S. but then of course end up falling in love. Since I have nothing to be afraid of because our marriage comes from the heart, I am a little excited to go through the process. I wonder how similar it will be to the movies about the process.
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They don't laugh anymore
Saturday, November 14, 2009 | By willowfahy
For years people laughed at me for me being cheap. And I freely admit; I was, I am, that won't change. I have a horror of wasting money, on anything, I refuse to go into debt for holiday shopping or to purchase a big ticket item I know I can find cheaper elsewhere. I don't think there is anything in my home or closets that cost anywhere near what people think they did upon first entering. We love antiques, they are everywhere in our home as are collectibles; none of which I paid retail for. I am far too cheap for that and my heart simply could not take it. They tease me when I take a pound of hot dogs and feed a family of six while keeping it tastey, nutritious, and filling. Or they did, until our economy collapsed. Suddenly people are very interested in how to save a dollar. People are on the look out for money saving tips, as well as time savers on laundry, housework even yard work. So, what better place for me to share some of what I have learned; and better yet, learn more. I am always willing to learn more about how to save or stretch a buck, or how to cut my time with the drudgery of housework. I hate it, but I want a nice home so I find every short cut I can to get it done without having it be my career. So, I will be posting frugal measures I use in the hopes of helping someone else out there with a large family and tight budget or perhaps others out there like me who have champagne tastes but a beer budget.
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self improvement
Friday, September 18, 2009 | By yard_sale_annie
I have decided to go back to school..I am 44 years old i am excited about the challange but worried i will be looked at as being to old to be there..I went thru a bad divorce ten years ago that left me with little or no self confidence..I have been rambling thru life just living but not really happy..but i have found something in my life that i am good at..i am a good listener and a good artist..maybe others might not like my art work but some do..i thought why not combine the two .so i have come up with what i call art therapy..I am going to go to college with a major in pychology and a minor in art..I want to get a liscense in child psychology and incorporate my art into my counseling of children..i want to help the troubled mind while it is still young maybei can save a child from becoming a statistic of todays society..well my hunny just called so i have to go take a shower we are headed up to the cottage this is probaly the last good weekend before it gets cold..i would like to take the time top thank you for reading my blog and thanks for all comments its encouraging to know others care enough to make a comment..hope every one is having a good day today..ok well the junk lady is signing off until later take care all...
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The cost of helping out
Thursday, August 20, 2009 | By Mooloo
I am not into this blog thing really yet. There is always so much to do.
Was supposed to be out for the day, looking around a few charity shops with my best friend. But we had to detour as my twin1, needed me to take her to the jobcentre to get a crisis loan, as her child tax credits didnt get paid this week. So I had to put petrol in the car, £20 as I was on empty by the time i had got to the town she live in, (about 24 or so miles away from where we were). then we had to go another 11 miles to the jobcentre, plus another couple of miles to the post office they had designated, and take her back to her home, before we could go back to my friends, another 13 miles away!.So in my gas guzzling car over £20 worth of fuel used. What annoys me even more is the fact that I had had to do the same just about for twin2 as she had a similar problem on Wednesday!. Again I had putin £20 of petrol.
I admit that twin2 on wednesday gave me, £10 for petrol, as I had to ask, the car was on empty, and today twin1 gave me a £5 , but I still have used £60 worth of petrol in a week, and all but one trip was for my family!
This means that I will have to economies in as many other ways as I possibly can. The weather here has been very windy, and the apples have been blown all overthe garden and the drive. I have picked up those that the wasps were not into, and I am going to peel and chop them up to make a crumble tomorrow. I cannot do the chopping and peeling at the moment as my arm is suffering from all the extra driving. (I have spondylosis in my neck which affects my left side, from my fingertips to my toes.)
I made plum jam last night from windfall/picked plums from my neighbours trees. I have never made jam before, so I was pleased this evening when I tried some on bread, and it was a success.
4 Jars are now in the store cupboard under the stairs, so that my son doesnt use the nearest to hand. And also uses more becuase he thinks there are loads more.
I need to learn to say no more often, and I need to get my budet back on track. I know how to budget, but I am still not keeping within my budget, and although I have been trying to learn to live on less, before the major income drop arrived, and have a cushion. But the drop is here, and my cushion has already gone becuase of helping out the children and the grandchildren. Even thouugh they get more money then I do, an they are still not surviving on it.!
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love life :)
Thursday, August 06, 2009 | By ashley229
Ok, so my name is Ashley. I'm from Tift County, Georgia [Southern Belle] :). I have the most AMAZING boyfriend but some of the things he does and says irritates me. He is VERY jealous. Today was our first day of school 8.6.09. We are Seniors. He told me before school that I better not talk to guys, I better not sit near them or anything. He just don't realize that I don't want anybody else. I only want, need, couldn't live without Him!! I just wish he would chill out with that. He knows that he cant talk to girls either because I cant talk to guys..but I still do every now and then but just as friends. He knows not to talk to girls what so ever but I don't stop him in the hallway and say "you BETTER NOT talk to any girls or today is going to be a bad day for your ass". Oh and not to mention I cant talk to certain girls, such as `whores`. And I cant even text my friends. I can only talk to them at school and that's it. But he talks to his stupid redneckin' buddies up town but yet I cant..that's messed up don't you think!?! But that's it for now. I love my baby with all my heart. 10 months..Go us!! (= ilyjp. [Feel free to leave feedback]
Thanks, Ashley!
***h0W WE MEt***
we've went to school together since middle school but we never really talked and so one day he tried "talkin" to my best friend and she didn't like him but she also had a bf at the time so I was like ok give me his number and i'll text him and get him to leave you alone so I texted him and I was kinda mean to em' which I feel bad for doing it now :( but anyways he didn't talk to me after that until i saw him up town one night and he spoke a few words.. not really to me. But anyways I had a cousin that worked at the peanut plant in tifton and I had no idea that "he" lived on the same rd as the peanut plant so I was hanging out at the peanut plant one night and a truck rode by that sounded and looked like "his" so I got the balls to text him and say "did you just ride by the peanut plant"? And next thing I know he called me and was like where are you? I said i'm at the peanut plant and he was like cool, do you want me to come see you? I said sure! So he came up there and saw me, we talked and all that yahdayah. And before he left he was like can I have a hug and of course I said yesss(: and he was like DAMN! your short =] haha..and we started talking from then on :) lucky me! i got me a country boy for life! I'm so lucky to have him! I love him with all my heart and soul! He's my baby.
she's gonna marry that boy someday-Trisha Yearwood.
We've come so far since that day and I thought I loved you then!-Brad Paisley.
"our quotes"
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I know I don't need more cereal
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 | By babychicken9531
My cheap day on Monday started with hanging the laundry on my covenant compliant removable clothes lines. I strung these up myself for about $30 close to a year ago. Hubby thought I was nuts; why hang laundry when we have a perfectly good dryer down stairs. Well my washing machine sucks and never spins all the water out. We've spent more than it cost to try to have it repaired only to cause me more grief. I would have to run the dryer twice to get clothes to dry, only ruining the dryer I'm sure. So I hang my laundry about 95% of the time. The first month I did it, I cut the electric bill in half. I like it too, I get outside with the kids for a little bit, it's just part of the routine now.
In the afternoon I ran to get some instant tea. Nestea instant tea, the only kind of tea that is never on sale or has a coupon. I love my husband and I agreed in exchange for doing the dishes I would run to the store and get his tea. While there I found 3 boxes of instant oatmeal for 79cents each in the clearance section. The boxes were a little crushed but who cares? I take them out of the box and but them in a little basket in the cabinet anyway. I know after buying 23 boxes of cold cereal this weekend that I don't need more cereal but it was such a deal.
My maps came from Disney yesterday too. The kids were so excited to see their maps and they are beautiful. You can order your own custom maps from the Disney web site and they are free. Just another thing to add to the anticipation of our upcoming trip.
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My cheap experiences Saturday
Sunday, July 19, 2009 | By babychicken9531
I did some cheap stuff yesterday. It began when my youngest daughter woke up looking for the blueberries. She opened the fridge then whined that someone ate all "her" blueberries. Well the blueberries had been gone for several days. I could have rushed to the store and bought her some, they are on sale this week. Instead, I told her to put on her shoes and grab a cup. We headed to the back yard. Last year I planted a huckleberry bush in the backyard, I had noticed that some of the berries were ripe and ready to be picked. I had covered the berries with toole leftover from one of our many princess dresses so the birds would not eat the berries. They ate all my strawberries in May, I'm still bitter about it. She gently plucked the berries off the pokey bush, staining her little fingers. There weren't many berries since it's still a young bush but enough to satisfy the craving of a 4 year old.
After spending much of the day cleaning the house. I took my cute berry eating buddy to Target to get a few deals I had heard from some of my cheap friends. I got 10 boxes of Kellogg's cereal, 6 raisin bran and 4 shredded mini wheats. The sale price was $1.88 a box and I had coupons for $1 off per box making them 88cents each. That's cheap! The bonus is Kellogg's has a back to school rebate out there. Buy 10 Kellogg's and Keebler product, follow the rules and get $10 rebate making my cereal a profit of $1.20. That's better than free! Also the Frosted Mini Wheats have a coupon on the back for more cereal. I'll hang on to those for later.
At Target I also picked up Electrosol Finish Dishwasher Tabs using the $2.50 coupon per box making them $1 a box. With 4 children and house of daycare kids- I do a ton of dishes. This is a great find for me. I bought 6 boxes. I hope this will get me until the next great sale. My Berry Buddy "needed" colored pencils, they were $1 a pack so to keep the peace and she did clean her room I did get her the colored pencils. She knows how to play the game, she told me they were on sale. She knows how much I love a good sale, she wins :)
I have cheap plans for today too. We'll see what kind of great deals I can come up with today. Thank you to my cheap friends for sharing their finds and coupons with me. Although no one would give up their Electrosol coupons :-P
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062709-Worried Sick
Saturday, June 27, 2009 | By alexisvh39
As I sit and wait for 5 hours from 4:00am this morning, I struggle to keep my eyes open. While little miss Bella, my puppy (a German shepherd/husky mix), runs around chasing my cats, I slowly and tiredly go get a bowl of cereal. A nice bowl of 2% and Cookie Crisp. Getting over excited cause 9:30am is coming and my love will text me. Knowing we wont be able to see each other for 2 weeks straight, kills the joy of hanging out with my friends. Scott will be at hockey tryouts and right after, vacation to New Jersey. Right when he leaves to come home, I’ll be leaving to go to Myrtle Beach. Which that’s he reason why I am worried sick about him. I do trust him, all honesty. I just don’t know why I’m worried.
The other day he told me, in fact it was yesterday, that he wanted me more than hockey. To hear that, it’s amazing. I know I am so young and such but I think I am in love. Ha hockey has been his life. And I support it, even if that means he has to move an hour away the opposite way that he lives from me by himself. And yes it worries me sick.
Sitting there finishing up my bowl of cereal, I decide to take Bella for a run. Making me highly upset, I realized that she looks bloated. Hearing “the dog is bloated” is never good. My dad, mom and I reviewed what she has eaten and where she was. We came to the conclusion that she has eaten clothing. I’ve been trying to make her better, and its slowly working. She was panning before but now she is breathing fine. But she is still little bloated but better than before. She still has me worried sick cause he isn’t fully healthy, but she is actually having fun being a pup again.
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I just joined this site and I have posted a picture of my reason for joining.
Monday, June 22, 2009 | By bhender5
Tiki has joined the family. Let the GAMES begin! I went into the shelter looking for a tiny, female puppy. I left with Tiki! A Lab/Pitt Bull Mix, about 10 weeks old. I could tell he was really smart, and he knew every trick in getting adopted. We fell for hhim in about 2 minutes.
All the positive postings about this mixed breed made me feel this is the place for me.
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First time blog
Sunday, June 14, 2009 | By scooterj923
I accidently found this site looking to make some old cool tshirts of mine something cool since I cannot bear to part with them and thought I would join. My interest in crafting has just recently arrived and I am excited to learn new things from other people and share what works for me!
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