Getting ready for Thanksgiving.

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Thanksgiving is right around the corner again and I am wondering just how many of us really feel thankful for what has happened this year.
It is extremely difficult to fell grateful when you or your spouse lost their job, when another person in your family died, or you are just about to lose your home.
It is difficult to remember that there is someone that loves us, when depression is eating away on your mind and soul. It is even more difficult when you can't even put the traditional meal on your table to feed those that are going to pretend to be grateful.

But perhaps there is something we have to be grateful for afterall. If you are reading this Blog Post right now, you can be grateful that you have access to a way to gather information regardless how useless you may find it at the moment.
If you still have a roof over your head that keeps you warm at night and dry in the rain, the you can be grateful because there are so many people out there who don't.
If you are currently depleting your savings account just to make ends meet and buy food or pay those bills, then be thankful that you even still have that savings account to use.
If you have a family that is still together even in these hard times, then you better hit the ground and thank whomever you believe in because they have not deserted you when times got tough.
Thursday is Thanksgiving in my house and I have been watching my income drop daily, my bills are barely paid and the food that I have in the house is not easy come by. But I have a family that I can feed on Thursday even if it is only 2 people left to me, I have a meal that may not be as huge as it once was, but it will feed them easily. I still have a roof over my head and I still have loving arms that can hold those I care about then times make it tough to remember what we should be grateful for.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

I am going to make this year a hand crafted Gift year only!

I don’t know about you, but I love hand made items. To me they are a lot more personal then store bought. Not to mention in most cases they last longer and are cheaper. I keep hearing about the great Change that is coming, but I don’t think that it will come in time for the Christmas / Winter Holidays.
For that reason I have decided that this year it all I am giving to anyone are hand crafted Gifts. Sorry, but that is all I can afford and that will have to be just good enough.

So here are my Gift Ideas that I have come up with so far.

1. Hand sewn and decorated pretty Pillows for the couch or seat cushion for a Chair.
2. Specialized candles
3. Table Decorations
4. Hand sewn Table Runners
5. Body Mists or gently perfumed lotions
6. Skirts with bead work
7. Hand drawn Shirts (purchase a blank T-shirt at Micheals and draw my own designs on it)
8. A copy of my own Self-published Books
9. A hand made coloring book for the littlest friends
10. Doll Clothing
11. Paintings

Oh and in case you wonder, here are a couple of samples of my handy crafts. Some of my stuff is for sale through my Ebay Store as well.

Baby Diapers, coupons and yes an affiliate link.

Todays Post is a bit of everything really and it is all about Baby Diapers, something that I haven't had to deal with in a long time. Yet today after reading some writing and receiving an Affiliate Offer in my Email it brought me back to those times when I would rip my hair out trying to safe whatever penny I could on Baby Products while still making certain that my kids had what they needed.

Baby Care is never easy and the cost of Diapers is often out of the Roof Top. I remember when my kids were still little I often ended up clipping coupons from Parenting Magazines, or try to trade information with other Mothers to find my favorite Diapers at the cheapest possible price.

I still remember my first time in an american store and looking at the overwhelming selection of disposable Diapers. I was feeling lost and didn't know where to start. Pampers are well known in most Countries of the World and so those were the first I purchased.

I remember thinking of the disposable Diapers automatically as Pampers. It seemed that Pampers had become the default name for Diapers for me, but when I tried them I didn’t find them to be any better then Huggies. The large difference was that Huggies more often give free coupons, discounts, and specials.

A definite plus for those of us parents who have to make due on a bit tighter budget. More often then not you can find off brand Diapers at extremely cheap prices, but even there not all off brands are created equal. Evenso some are just as good as the Brand Names others are truly a poor choice.

These days, with the internet being easily accessable to all of us, we have even further ways of finding savings.

The following is going to be a list of the savings I found by searching a little. Some of them have nothing to do with me while others are found while looking through my Affiliations. I hope you can find some new savings venues for you and if it helps me out at the same time let me say thank you right from the beginning.

Huggies will send you savings coupons if you sign up for their free Newsletter. (Not one of my Affiliations)

Pampers offers a Rewards Program and Sweepstakes. If you are interested in this you can sign up for Free by clicking here. (Not one of my Affiliations. Please make certain you have your Pop up Blocker working otherwise you have quiet a few pop ups.)

This is an official Diaper Site. Safe some money on Diapers and time by setting up direct delivery to you. Take a look by clicking here! (Again not one my Affiliates)

(This is one of my Affiliates. Be aware that you will have to fill out a few surveys and try a few trials. If you are planning on doing this, I suggest you write down when the trial starts so you can cancel it at the end unless you want to keep it. They are good at following through with their offer. If you are are willing to do this, or are just curious about more information, please help me out by using my Affiliation Link / Banner. Thank you!)

For our Canadian Friends only: Enter here for hottest parent offerings from Canada (Another Affiliation of mine. This will allow you to access freebies and coupons for all sorts of Parenting needs and Baby Products.)

If you have any other leads to savings please pass them along for others.

Weekend arguements are starting to become a Tradition.

I am honestly getting just a bit tired of the constant stupid arguments on the Weekend. Alright, let me start at the beginning I guess. My daughter is no longer working and since she is starting her Basic Training in January, she has decided not even to bother getting a new Job. Agree or not disagree, you can only do so much talking until you get tired of it all. Now she is at home every day and mainly just sitting around doing nothing else but reading or watching TV while I am trying to work on my computer.

Now it really doesn’t bother me most of the days, but ever so often I simply get tired of watching her sitting around being lazy. Well that is nothing new either. Most of us Parents get that way from time to time with out teens.

On Thursday to Saturday my husband is at home as well and he spends his time either downloading adult images on his PC or playing one of his hundreds of PC Games. Now he works 4 days out of the Week and so he figures that he is entitled to just sit around doing nothing. I guess I can’t argue that one, but what gets really old is that no matter what each weekend my husband and my daughter both just have an attitude of entitlement that drives me insane.

Weekends never once go by without at least 2 of us are getting into an argument with each other. Today is one of those days where both of those two are walking around as if their Dog has died. (we don’t have a dog).

I am working and can’t make a Sale to safe my life and am wondering why I am not just sitting around being a lazy f**k like the rest of them.

Do any of you have the same experiences or am I just getting old?

Sales, Sales and more Sales

We have started the Yard & Arts/Crafts Sale at our house yesterday and did ok. We noticed that most people seem to be perfectly willing to pay $1.00 to $2.00 for an Item, but after that they simply lose interest.
What was the biggest challenge is to get people to understand that evenso I am more then happy to sell most of my used bought Items for a paltry sum to get it out of my house, I will not and can not sell brand new hand crafted Items for that cheap.

I was trying to sell handsewn Pillows for $5.00 a piece (my Material cost alone is almost $2.00 and I have worked on those Pillow often for about 2 hours a piece) which makes the cost almost laughable. Yet Customers seemed to turn up their noses. I wonder have we really lost our appreciation for handy crafts as a People in general?

Holding your breath or accepting realities!

I am sitting in my favorite chair and I am taking a deep breath. I am ok with this, really I am ok, I reassure my last fledgeling for the ombteens time in less then 1 hour, but she doesn't believe me any more then she did 1 hour ago.
My Daughter joined the Airforce and today it all become completely official. I know this is for her future and with today's economy it probably is one of the few secure incomes she will have, plus her college will be covered something sadly I can not do for her, but I am still having a hard time breathing.

I know that no matter what she will do in life there is still a chance she can get hurt, but this is the last one out of the nest. My last Baby to let go. Soon I will have nobody left to fuss over, my husband is way to self sufficent to let me baby him. She is leaving on January 3rd for Basic Training and now the count down begins. I have known it for the last month, but for some reason today it became reality.

So I am trying to be happy for her. This will be a big adventure in her life and I have to grow up too and move on. WAAAAAAHHHHHH!

Don't expect anything and you can't get dissappointed.

Most men are notoriously bad with dates. I am lucky enough to have my husband get my birthday off by one day. Our Anniversary Date off by one day and he does remember that Valentines Day is sometime in February, but don't ask him when.

I have learned over the last 8 Years in which I have been with the love of my life to never expect anything. At first I would throw really broad hints at him, up to including giving him a wish list, which I thought would make it extremely easy. No go, because he still would forget the day and the wish list. Then one day I just finally gave up. I swore myself that I would no longer remind him, it is on the calender. I would no longer expect him to remember and to make a big deal out of it.

This year on Mother's Day my husband almost gave me a heart attack. He came home on the right day after work and brought me 1 single long stemmed red Rose. I was in heaven. See, when you don't expect anything, you may just be pleasantly surprised.