I went to a Bereavement session today......
Jasdip
5 years ago
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Comments (9)Oh give me a break! I spent almost a year in Columbia, SC. Froze my butt off in the morning, couldn't breath by noon and that started in March! The heat and humidity lasted through November. You know the kind, where ya take a shower and can't dry off?...See MoreI went to speak to a medium today!
Comments (15)I don't want to sound rude, but I must interject here. There's one in every bunch isn't there? Listen to one thing ladies... You are allowed to believe in whatever your heart tells you to believe in and whatever makes you feel better and helps you to cope with the grief that a loss such as these hurls you into. Grief is a horrible thing to have to endure, but just as is dying, so is grief a very real and unavoidable part of life. Don't allow anyone to succeed who tries to take away that which enables you to cope with this grief. I believe in and love God with all my heart, all my mind and all my soul, however, I can't help but get angered by people who think that the only voice of God comes through the Bible. Personally I don't give the Bible much credence because I believe it was written by man and twisted and turned around and upside down for the agenda of the day until present day very little of it is the true word of God. I know the word of God (for me). It's in my heart and in my soul and I for one certainly don't need someone sharing their self-righteous demonic sightings or their bible interpretations with me or anywhere near me. I generally say one thing to these people who think they have all the answers and that is... "We'll all find out someday, won't we?", and so as to avoid violating the guidelines, with that I bid you please take your naysaying to another forum. Sorry to all of the others on this forum, but this was such a wonderful conversation until I got to that post and I could not be silent and let someone like that spoil everyone else's great experience. I will sign on again soon and tell you all my story. Linda...See MoreToday I accomplished....
Comments (75)My goodness, we needed this. You guys are incredible. Look at all those things you do every day you don't even recognize! Pollying, Painting, vacuuming, caring, choosing, stocking, washing, (stop me) all without losing your sanity for falling over dead. Of exhaustion, I mean, right? Today I went to get a new social security card. Unfortunately they moved without notifying me. The NERVE. So, what's a girl to do? [Gimme a Hell YA!"] Go thrifting. Visited H4H in Riverdale (MD) and the antique/2nd hand/junk store next to it. They also took a break and didn't notify me. The sign said to come back later, but NO, this chick's on a roll! Off to Baltimore (MD) I charged. 2nd Chance, here I come. Oh, my are they putting in new furniture all the time. No Orphan beaded inset cabinets, so I passed on that. I did find some side lights to accompany my other side lights I picked up before. I'm going to make closet doors out of them. Way cool. I also couldn't resist a pair of 30" doors with horizontal grids on their glass. They're gonna need some work, but that's just fine. What am I going to do with them? I have no idea if I tell you I'll have to kill you. Picked up a face frame delivery from [drum roll] Brian and The Cabinet Joint.com. I am SO psyched about this. Beaded inset, of course. Met with a Garden Web Mid-Atlantic Gardening member who is going to lease an acre of my land (A whopping $100 a year for water) to grow ... PEONIES! She is opening a nursery needs a place to grow them. PEONIES! Managed not to spend my Multi-purpose Fred's drywall money. My MBR looks great with all skim coated drywall. I am Hap-peeeee! Now, I'm gonna take a nap. I should mow the lawn, since I never go to it, but it's gonna be there when I decide to hack it down....See MoreWent To The Bank,Not So Good News..
Comments (38)bulldinkie, this is a good/great thread, and the kind of discussion that the KT needs...how much fun to discuss something besides the last meal you made or your grandkids...why would you think otherwise...no one has said an unkind word and I wasn't chastising you personally...just giving my opinion....you may not like my opinion or my giving my opinion but at least it provoked an interesting discussion. Our way may not suit everyone, it is a very individual thing, but someone implied earlier in this thread that some of us had taken advantage of circumstances...and yes maybe we did, a very smart thing to do...but we also made those circumstances and we made them happen as well. I will tell you all this...at the ripe old age of about 50 years old, (we are 68 now) I had not very much in the bank and my now husband had come out of a divorce where he gave her everything including a big chunk of money every month...He sat down with a pen and paper and we made a retirement plan and we have stuck too it...No one gifted us anything...we made opportunities for ourselves...WE moved at every moment possible so that we could raise the salary...you can't stay with a company and increase your salary more than a small percentage...we wanted 30 or 40 thousand so as soon as we possibly could, we changed jobs and moved yet again to increase the salary and we raised our standard of living but most of it went into the savings account...We hired someone with financial knowledge to help us...We chose our real estate wisely, we made sure that we were going to make money when we sold because we were changing jobs again....We moved/changed jobs 9 times ...yes 9 times in order to raise the amount of money we were making...We packed out goods, our animals and our cars and traipsed across country 9 times to better our situation... No one laid anything in our laps we worked hard for it and we made it happen.......when we made our plan we had a car payment..when that 460 dollars a month was paid off...we immediately started paying that to our savings account...We had a credit card with 3 or 4 thousand on it, we took nearly all of our savings and paid that off and started making that payment to ourselves...we made and amortization table including interest and it went to our savings account and we refused to pay interest to someone else...There are lots of ways to improve your situation but just sitting on your hands and doing nothing about it isn't the answer...We don't have any money issues anymore ...we are retired and living pretty good but no one and nothing did it for us...we did it ourselves in the same time frame that you all are talking about because we were willing to do it...and in the end...we had a great time moving to new places and meeting new people and changing our lifestyle with each move......See MoreJasdip
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