As a current host for my MIL, I've got to say a hell ya for Nicole's comment. If the host declines the offer of help, dont! Work is not just activities needed to be done.

I'm tags all the way. I can understand the use of/desire for folders as a way to limit the scope of a search, but once you learn to build the search filter right its not so bad.

Ya know, I dont believe this. I've got an account w/ a . in it. Just tried to login w/o it and Gmail keeps throwing an error. But the kicker is I didn't try to create the email w/o the . to start with, so who knows if it already exists.

A Grizzly Adams here. Being the 5th in line sporting beards its a family tradition that I have no inclination breaking.

A trick that has worked for me was to visit bars on off nights to start with. After my last move, found a bar that had potential and had a list of good live music. So I started to go in on off nights - Sunday/Monday. Never stayed long, just enough to get a drink or two and become familiar.

Well I was able to get thru on my second try.

My wife and I had done something very similar. The containers we used were 1.50 each (48 total) from World Market. Spent 5 each on two tin sheets (14" by 8" I guess?) from Home Depot. And 20 on a cheap poster frame.

I'm going to offer something slightly different then other people here. I would suggest find a job in whatever you are good at, not neccessarly what you love, but what you can enjoy.

Its interesting watching the discussions about this. Those that seem to think its... not a good deal seem to be able to quote the facts and figures for best rates at one bank or another.

I'll echo what Sl4sh3r said about scheduling. One of the more difficult things about such a large meal is making sure everything is ready at the same time.

Maybe I have a bit of different perspective on this since I'm Ham Op. Ham radio and CB was around for quite awhile before cell phones, and seemed to suffer a lot less of these issues. Most of us realize that the conversations we are having are secondary or trichary in what is going on. Driving and need to make turn?…

One thing that helped me was actually loss of about 60 pounds by exercise. (healthy loss)

Actually, if you want to be 'wasteful' you can do something similar to the wife and I. We created a gmail account specifically for recipies. Mind you, this is because we are on about.... 10 mailing lists now? And constantly growing as we find better sources. As each recipe comes in, label it by hand for major…

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Something I told my cuz to take was a small George forman. That and a small crockpot means you can make alot of meals and save money for more important things.(beer and women)

The wife swears by this tool. In fact she has been trying to get me to use it for the past year. I don't usually need something this powerful for what I use Excel for, but on those rare occasion its great.

Debt in and of itself isn't a bad thing. One can actually make money through debt. Say you have enough cash to buy a car priced 10K, a money market account is earning 4.5% and interest on the car is 1% over 3 years.