If you’re looking to make some quick cash, you can go though all your stuff, find the stuff you never use, and sell it. You could technically hold a garage sale, but that’s a whole other huge event. I mean, you just sorted your closets, save the garage sale for warmer days and try the following places for selling your gear…

Consignment shops: The key to making quick cash at a consignment store is to ask them how they pay. There are plenty of consignment shops, but not all pay right away, and not all pay in cash. Possible scenarios include …read more

Can you believe it’s that time of year again?  This weekend, it will be time to move our clocks ahead one hour. 
Before you grumble and complain, remember that this is good news.  Spring is on the way!  I don’t know about you, but I am ready for some nicer weather. 
Click here for more information about Daylight Savings Time.
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BOY
And he will be here July 29th.  I will be very interested to see when he actually arrives as both of my other two kids arrived on their due dates.

Karen wrote a post about the mom who had octuplets in California.  Let me be politically incorrect here… Be very careful how quickly you ask the government to step in and help those kids.  No matter what our opinion of these kids and their mom is, do you really want the government to step in and take them simply because there are too many in your opinion?  I am pregnant with my third child and have had many comments directed at me that I should have stopped with my perfect family: husband, wife, daughter, and son.
Who is to say that …read more

My husband and I are proud to announce the newest addition to our family should arrive the end of July.  Turkey Butt has decided that it will be another girl.  If not, we might have an issue because, once here, the new baby will not be going back in!  HAHA!
Just thought I would share the news.  Merry Christmas to us!

We redid our kitchen 4 years ago and have had the cabinets from our old kitchen sitting in our garage ever since.  I finally got tired of them sitting there and put them on Craig’s List yesterday.  I got 10 emails in less than an hour and I now have a check in my hand!  I even got what I was asking for them.  They didn’t even haggle the price.  I posted the listing exactly 24 hours ago.  I am SO HAPPY! Now we can use the money to fix up our next project to sell.

Earlier this week, I told you of what my local consignment store said about the new CPSIA law enacted to keep our kids safe from lead.  Then I got another email.  So I thought I would let you know what they said.
Dear Valued Customer,
We received great news from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), clarifying the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act  that goes into effect on February 10, 2009.    From the statement -
“The new law requires that domestic manufacturers and importers certify that children’s products made after February 10 meet all the new safety standards and the lead ban. Sellers …read more

Ok, so the movie is filth and sexually charged dealing with premarital sex, abortion, smoking, disobeying your parents, and cheating in school.  But to a 3 year old, it simply has TONS of music to dance to and they are dressed funny.
I’m talking about the movie Grease with John Travolta and Olivia Newton John.  I have always loved that movie and didn’t really realize it until I was way older that it wasn’t exactly the most Christian, wholesome movie to watch.
I must say that I am extremely sorry for the Travolta’s family loss and have chosen to let them mourn …read more

UNBELIEVABLE MATH PROBLEM
Here is a math trick so unbelievable that it will stump you.
Personally I would like to know who came up with this and why that person is not running the country. 
Grab a calculator. (you won’t be able to do this one in your Head)
1. Key in the first three digits of your phone number (NOT the Area code…) 
2. Multiply by 80
3. Add 1
4. Multiply by 250
5. Add   to this   the last 4 digits of your phone number
6. Add   to this  the last 4 digits of your phone number again.
7. Subtract …read more

Whew!  My life has been crazy lately.  As some of you may know, earlier this year we downsized and sold a ton of stuff.  We moved in an apartment about 2/3 smaller than our house so that we could work full-time in a ministry for at-risk youth.  Life there was extremely hard and although we weren’t looking for employment, God provided a new opportunity for us.  Off we have moved again and hopefully, this time we’ll stay a while.  
Our house still hasn’t sold, so we’re paying a house payment and a rental payment.  Eeek!  Last week, we lowered the …read more