Small town police must have nothing better to do than arrest an otherwise law abiding mom for failure to licence her dogs.

Yes, today the police arrived at my house this afternoon to arrest me on a Bench Warrent for failure to licence my dogs.

I had just put the three youngest of my kids down for a nap and my oldest daughter was about to leave to a friends when they came a knocking. They let me call my husband who was thankfully on his way home. I told him to head to...

queenofthehivemomof5

Just had to share my new coupon binder!! For the past few days I have been working on convering my coupon box to a coupon binder. It has been some work but already I love it! It is so easy to see what coupons I have without digging through little envelopes or little slots in my accordian file.

My basic set up is this: I have a zippered 2-inch D-ring binder with LOTS of trading card pages for binders (9 slots/page) as well as a few 4x6 photo pages for binders (2 slots/page), some tabbed...

manystraits

May 1, 2008 - 1/3 way though the year!



Kroger had these beauties on sale for 5/$1

oop $1 real money, no coupons, no gift cards, lol

total available to spend $827.79

total saved for the year $3435.30

Now do you all realize with the year being 1/3 over that I have actually MADE money buying groceries? I started out the year with $800 and now...

JANE4girls

I have been so busy running the kids here and there and going to classes and study for the finals. I have 1 exam left( friday) and I am done for a while.
I am glad to be back. I have not got a paper in wks. I have not been to the grocery store in I don't know how long. I have alot of catching up to.
Just thinking about,I would like to look and have our check in the bank that is coming out too.
I have alot of catching up to do, really.
while I am looking over things that...

nmeadows0101

Well DH and I had a talk this weekend about getting serious about saving money for a house.

We have about $4000 left in debt to pay off...maybe a little less if I can talk down the biggest collector into settling for a bit more. And I got 2 settlement offers on 2 old phone bills for 1/2 what is owed today in the mail and so I need to figure that in my spreadsheet so I am thinking that we may be able to settle for about 1/2 on this last little chunk.

We already have our...

queenofthehivemomof5