I was born in NYC, spend most of my life in Boston... so

• Anyone have plans for the Superbowl? Staying home, going to friends, making food, - what are you making? Could use good ideas! nm
  • Working my butt off, all my docs went nuts -sm -
  • GO GIANTS. Loyal fan. Live about 45 minutes from stadium. - ss
  • I was born in NYC, spend most of my life in Boston... so - Lawandorderfan
  • Will watch, but no party..maybe some pizza and wings...nm - Missing my Packers!
  • Actually going house shopping on Sunday - ERMT
  • The guys in my family have a chili/soup cookoff - trose
    • Be sure to open a coupla windows....chili is a fart-fest...sm - cat
      • Just now getting to read this - trose
  • Having our annual Super Bowl party - LinK
    • We'll probably go to my brother's - He has a big screen TV.

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and yes, they do get excited, but can be calmed down relatively easily.  Both of mine are very protective, lovable, love to be snuggled with, love to play fetch, just all around good dogs.  It sounds like the owners have not trained the dogs at all.  It also sounds like they may not know what a heat is until they are into the messy part. 

Some dogs will sense when a female is getting ready to go into heat and go nuts and some don't.  I took my male Boston to my MIL about 3 weeks ago and she has a female yorkie.  He would not leave her alone for anything.  We finally just separated the two until we left.  About 2 days later, she called to let us know that she was in heat (thankfully my dog is neutered!).

I am a dog lover to the nth degree.  I love all dogs.  Or so I thought.  My brother-in-law and sister-in-law were going out of town and called and asked if I would dogsit if they brought them over.  I was hesitant because they tend to get on my nerves when I am around them (the boston terriers not my BIL and SIL).  I said I guess.  So here he comes bringing them and they arrive wide open jumping on me and all up in my face, both of them.  I have a beagle of my own who is the ultimate laziest and low key dog you will ever know.  I also have a pit bull who is the kindest gentlest giant ever.  They are both well behaved and have never acted like those dogs do.  The minute my pit bull smelled her he went and was really sniffing her back end more than a dog usually would like she was in heat or something.  So my husband said she isn't in heat is she?  My pitbull is a male.  My BIL said I don't know.  My husband said she lives in the house with you. What do you mean you don't know.  He said well she shouldn't be in heat.  So we blew it off.  Well these dogs drove me nuts.  I mean nuts.  While working at my computer one sat and kept trying to jump in my lap while I was working and would dive up and hit my arm and of course cause me to mess up.  I was furious. I was on the verge of throwing the dog outside.  But it was storming so I didn't.  Then when I went in the living room to take a break and watch TV a few minutes one jumps up in my lap of course and when I went back to work I noticed blood on my pants.  I said oh great she was in heat.  I was ticked off.  I called my BIL and no answer.  I didn't know what to do.  So I loaded them up and took them home to their house where the back door was unlocked and left them with plenty of food and water.  I will just go let them out periodically.  I will be wasting my gas but oh well.  It is about 10 mintues away.  I just had to vent about these annoying little dogs.  I would have never dreamed there was a dog that I didn't like.  I can now say there are 2 dogs I don't like.  What are your experiences with boston terriers? I think it is the fact they won't sit down and are constantly jumping in my face and on my head that makes me annoyed.

minutes or so washing, cutting and styling may between chin and shoulder length hair.  Five minutes is ridiculous.  I don't see how they can even do a good job in that amount of time.

Yes, I know $85 is high (plus tip).  I have just had so many hack jobs at less money that I got scared and went to a trendier place in the city.

I'm in Florida, and it is me, my husband, our 2 kids (son 7 and daughter 11), and my father-in-law, and I swear my FIL, who is 5Ǝ" and 158 lbs, eats more than my husband, who is 6Ɖ" and 345 lbs. FIL had to have a feeding tube put in last July, and I had to cut down meals by half because we were having so many leftovers and wasting money. Just when I thought I had it figured out, he was able to get the tube removed, so I'm back to making meals for an army. I just wish I had his metabolism as he just does not seem to gain weight and even had to go on high-calorie Ensure when he had the feeding tube to gain weight. I shudder to think of what my grocery bill will be when my son hits puberty  I don't buy stuff for lunches here at home as we (FIL and I) will just eat a sandwich or leftovers from the fridge

As far as special foods, we don't really buy anything out of the ordinary. I buy frozen vegetables instead of canned unless it is for a recipe, and for a while we were buying meat at a butcher shop but have had to cut that out for now. It was really good but was close to DH's work, and if he couldn't pick it up while he was in the area, it was a 45-minute drive. I cook most things from scratch, except lasagna because I hate making it. Once a month, we have a luncheon at church that I bring a dish and a dessert, and I cook Wednesday night dinner there one night per month, but I get reimbursed for the Wednesday night dinner. I do include paper products and toiletries in with my grocery budget but that's it, and I usually go to Sam's once a month for those.

I have it easy compared to my parents though. My dad got paid once a month, and there were 4 kids at home all the time, 5 when my sister came up during the summer. They used to have 3 grocery carts slap full of food, and my mom figured out that it took something like 18 boxes of cereal to last a month, each one with a date marked on it so we didn't go through them too quickly. And to keep my brother from using a mixing bowl and a serving spoon to eat cereal  We also had a freezer to keep extra bread and other things, and my mom also used to mix in powdered milk when the gallon was half-way gone. I never knew until I was grown, so she definitely blended it well.

we eat out/order in.  Of course, then our "entertaining" budget increases.  But some things are cheaper to just order in.  For example, pizzas -- I can get 2 large pepperoni pizzas from the local pizzeria for under $20.  If I buy them in the store, I spend about $15 and then have to cook them and my kids don't like the frozen kind as well.  The frozen kind are also smaller.

I just got groceries this past Friday and spent $200.  I had an entire cart full.  In addition to the coupons I had, I also had a 20% discount on everything (one of those reward plans for spending so much the previous 2 months).  I got value packs of skinless/boneless chicken breasts - buy 1 get 1 free -- $15 packs of chicken, breakfast sausage on sale, ham steaks on sale, plus my 20% off all that. 

Overall, I think I spend somewhere around $150 a week on groceries.  There are 5 of us -- me, my hubs, and 3 boys -- ages 6 to 11. 

What I notice that I spend more on are school lunches.  It costs $2.00 a day per child and I don't think they actually eat it.  I'm thinking about packing my kids' lunches each day.  $2/day x 3 kids = $6/day x 5 days/week = $30/week x 4 weeks/month = $120 for lunch.  YIKES!!! I think I can do better than that if I pack them.

At any store that sells puppies and kittens.  Why?  Because they all come from puppy mills or other questionable "breeders" (despite their denials).  I would never put money in the pockets of a puppy miller. 

Is it the same budget every year, or with the economy the way it is will you cut back?  If you have small children, do you spend more than on others?

Just curious to see what people do moneywise.

What's the family lunch budget for kids and husbands?

  Us that work at home don't get a lunch budget I know

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I have two stephchildren, 26 and 23. They are very sweet and we have a good relationship. Every year I have given them $50.00 each cash for Christmas. Needless to say, I'm an MT, so you have some idea of how much I make. 

I have one daughter. DH will ask me to buy a gift for him for her, which I have done. That is out of my pocket.

Does this sound right? No, really. Is this typical? Very honestly, I think Christmas is for children and that adults should not be exchanging gifts at all. Any thoughts on this whole matter? Thanks.