Did you see couple won lottery, built mansion and

• Powerball's up to 300 million! Grab a ticket and good luck! nm - Not in my state, unfortunately.
  • Boy, that's a lot of money. I think about that old man in WV? who won - and it ruined his life. Money doesn't buy every
    • Did you see couple won lottery, built mansion and - had dressed concrete geese by the front door. nm
      • What a waste of good money, and what I mean by that is them winning it! lol - nm
        • I guess it should go to you, then, b/c you know what - SHOULD be done with it? LOL
          • poster said mansion/concrete geese are wasteful - explain your response - n/m
            • I would prefer live geese, which I would also - dress up. Bonnets would be cute. :))
      • You could be a red-neck if,,,,,, - nm
    • Don't know how it can ruin your life unless you let it - sm - XXX
      • While traveling or eating out my hubby, kids, and I love - trose
      • How about that guy on crack and heroin that won 27 million and blew it all - ........sm
        • Yeah, that is pretty bad, very unsmart to say the least- sm - XXX
    • I wasn't necessarily the money - trose
      • Good luck! - nm
      • Should have said It not I goodness knows I am not a millionare. nm - trose
    • thing. - nm

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who can't keep their house tidy isn't trying hard enough! How hard is it to keep a house clean? Not very hard at all. Please don't complain, oh I have kids, my DH is a slob, I don't have time. Turn off the TV, get off the internet, clean the house! Some of you girls just make me laugh!

I know a guy who won the TX lottery several weeks ago, along with some othe co-workers - it was 12 million but after it is split up - they should each get about $200,000 - give or take (since he hasn't filed income tax in over 5 years - he may not get that much - as he filed this year - so it is a red flag) - but the whole thing is being held up because one of the men will not give his social security number to the lottery commission - i don't know what his reason is - but this is keeping all the others from their winnings.  I guess it pays to know who you are doing business with - even if it is combining funds to buy lottery tickets.

a couple of years ago and my husband and I did several different things throughout the floors in the house.  The living room is hardwood floor.  It looks really nice but it does tend to show dust more than linoleum or tile would.  Our kitchen is next to the living room and we tiled the kitchen.  It doesn't look tacky next to each other.

I would go for linoleum in the kitchen for several reasons actually.  If you get water on the hardwood floor and it soaks in between the joints of the hardwood floor, it will swell and you will start to get some creeks in the floor.  I think linoleum would hold up really well with all the spills that happen in a kitchen. 

My husband and I actually went to a flooring place and looked at their back room of tile that was discontinued.  Not only did we get really nice tile but we got it a heck of a lot cheaper because that tile was discontinued.  I love our tile.  We have it in the dining room, kitchen, foyer, and all the bathrooms.  We have carpet in all the bedrooms and we have hardwood floor in the living room.

The hardwood floor, however, will add more value to your home than linoleum and that same goes for tile.

Therefore there is nothing to compare it to. I don't know how they came up with the $200+ initially. But since the natural gas bill rarely runs more than $30-40 per month even in winter, I am not going to do averaging on it again, even after the 12-month period is up.

It's worth it for the electricity because it runs around $100 a month with averaging and it goes up and down a lot more. I live in Oklahoma and it can get as high as 100 degrees plus in the summer, and down to zero or below in the winter.

We lived in a modular, what some would call a 'double-wide', for about 8 years, and while it was by no means what one would call a trailer, neither was it as sound as a site built house.  It was a great starter home, but there were a couple of things about it that anyone looking to buy a modular should be aware of.  The first thing is that resale on modulars/manufactured homes is not as brisk (at least in my part of the country) as a regular, site-built home.  We ended up selling ours via land contract.  The second thing to be aware of is that these homes off-gas.  If you move into a new house, there is going to be a smell associated with that new construction but in a manufactured home, because of the way they are built, on an assembly line, some things are done differently than in a traditional house.  There is a lot of formaldehyde used in the construction of these homes. 

Heating and ventilation are other things to be concerned about, as well as insulation, and what type of foundation to put underneath the home.  My suggestion is that if you go with a modular/manufactured home, go with a full slab. 

As far as settling goes, any house is going to settle.  If the home is set up properly the settling will be held to a minimum, but if it isn't done well, the settling will be more obvious.  I would check with the BBB where you are looking to buy and see if there are any complaints on file with them re: the company/ies you are looking at. 

Another thing to consider:  Where are you putting this home? Many subdivisions have regulations against modular homes of any type, including the one we moved into.  These people (small subdivision) freaked out completely when they found out we were building a house in THEIR subd. and that we lived in a modular at the time.  I guess they thought the trailer trash was coming to town...let's just not go there. 

We were able to go through a service where we hired a consultant who is a licensed builder to guide us through the process, and we actually did the general contracting ourselves.  We managed to save a significant amount of money in the process, and while there were very stressful times we managed it well and are extremely pleased with the results.  While we are not what could be considered tree huggers, we did want to build a house that was more environmentally friendly and energy efficient.  There are several ways to do that, and it really is so much simpler than you may think.  We just moved in about a month ago, and we do still have quite a bit to do, trim, paint, landscaping (we have a beyoootiful mud pit right now), but it is so very much worth it.

In any event, good luck with whatever you decide to do, and if you have any questions, please feel free to ask. 

HC

nearby, multiple relatively new retail buildings still have available space for rent or have been abandoned. 

you think she would have built the school for girls somewhere NEAR DARFUR where they are beyond poor.  The people in S. Africa have lots and lots of $$ and as a matter of fact, I read about Oprah's school there, that the kids there had their CELL phones taken away and that the rule is the parents cannot visit unless they get written permission from her school.  KIDS WHO HAVE CELLPHONES go to her school....HOW POOR ARE THESE CHILDREN, really....

get real please...........

brothers who wet the bed until they were about 13!  There was no abuse and it was a model household.  Bedwetting is very common in boys.  My brother also wet the bed until he was about 7 or 8.  He quit when he got a brand new bed.  My step-dad (ignoramus!) thought that proved he was being lazy, but this is a phenomenon that happens a lot, that a new bed stops the bedwetting.  Michael Landon even made a movie about it. 

My daughter wet the bed until she was about 4.  (My two boys never did.) The solution for her was simply waking her up at about 12:30 every night and walking her to the bathroom.  After about 3 or 4 days (I am not exaggerating) she never wet the bed again.  That is all it took to train her body to wake up when her bladder was full.  I'm not saying that it would necessarily work for this child, but I am saying that his mother, winner that she is, probably never thought about how she could help him solve this problem.  It might be easier than you think. 

one couple is the _leader_ couple and the other is the _follower_ couple.  It may just be that after a period of time, this couple is feeling that they want to spread their wings a bit and establish their own traditions...and just don't know how to communicate that to you without hurting your feelings (which hurts because of the noncommunication and you are left to wonder what is going on!). 

You have extended your offer for your New Year's party.  Maybe pick a time when you know that no one will be home at your neighbors and call to leave a casual message that even if they have something else planned, they are welcome to drop in for whatever time they could spend so you and yours can wish them a happy start to the new year.  Otherwise, I would just let things play out.  When the time is right to talk about what is going on, you and the other family will know it.  Try to keep an open mind and a good relationship.

1)  I was on the phone with my boyfriend sitting on a no-back barstool.  I was rocking back and forth against the wall when the barstool went out from under me.  It not only went under me, the leg came back to jam me up the rectum.  Of course I dropped the phone and immediately started yelling, IT HURTS, IT HURTS!!  My boyfriend stayed on the phone all that time and my mom had to pick it up and tell him I'd have to call him back later I just gave myself an impromptu colonoscopy.  Talk about red!!  My butt hurt for like a week.  I couldn't even poop for 2 days after that.

2)  My boyfriend (now husband) and I were making out in an orchard one night.  Afterwards, he took me home and the next morning I awoke to find my entire backside covered with poison ivy.  I also noticed I was missing about $60 I had shoved into my pockets the night before.  I immediately called my boyfriend and explained that it must have fallen out of my pocket in the orchard.  Since $60 was a lot of money to me then (now it barely fills up my tank), I asked him to go back and look for it.  Lucky for me he found it and I used it to buy some Calamine lotion.  Man, did my butt itch for a week.  We still laugh about this one.