Recent content by Mary E.

I've had bouts of depression for years. Sometimes I look back on my daughter's childhood and realize that I missed most of it. Thank goodness my DH is one of those wonderful husbands and Dads, and was there to fill in the holes. One word of caution about Zoloft (it was the first med I took)...

DH retired 5 years before me (on disability). After he healed to his current level, he always cooked dinner on the weekdays -- I did weekends. He did the laundry and ran whatever errands needed to be done. All the little things he did really took a burden off of me. Now that I'm retired, we...

mathjak -- that gives new meaning to dining in!! We watch that program occasionally, but never thought to place an order -- maybe we'll try that one of these days. We do the rotisery chicken a couple times a month -- since we buy it at the grocery or costco, it goes in the grocery category...

You might try researching at www.prairielaw.com. They have various message boards and probably have one on SS. My DH is disabled and was accepted by SS after a six month waiting period. He also is covered by worker's comp. We used the message boards while we were wading throught the worker comp...

Al -- love your shopping list. I going to make a couple for my stores. Since I've retired, I've tried to keep a better stock of ingredients in the house. I sat down once and figured six weeks worth of meals (dinners only), listed the needed ingredients and created a shopping/inventory list. Just...

Our expenses include everything from dinner for 4  at $150.00 to Taco Bell for $5.00.  The figures do include tax and tip since we use our debit card 99% of the time.  The majority of the time its lunch or dinner for 2.  Being in the SW we like Mexican which is probably less expensive than some...

After reading "Did your spending surprise you?", I decided to take a look at our dining out for the past 5 years. We use Quicken, and for comparison I ran reports for Jan-Aug for 2002-2006, inclusive. Primarily, I wanted to know if our dining out had decreased and what the average cost per event...

We don't do the reconcillation either. Use on-line banking to monitor account, then enter info into financial software for reports, etc. We have had only one bank error many years ago (before AMT, etc.) , but it was a duzzie - We sent in our mortgage payment, the receiving bank processed the...

Thanks to all for the responses. I appreciate the advice and info. Now at least I feel that I know what I need to learn about. We're in NM and the house is a VA foreclosure that we bought a few years back. Since we have a VA guaranteed loan, our closing was done at the VA contractor-realtor...

Hi all -- I'm new to this board and have enjoyed surfing your topics. I'm retired 1 year from federal service (CSRS). We have a rental house which is now vacant and we've decided to sell it. We've had a few people ask about buying it, and I'm toying with the idea of doing it myself. I find...