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15 September 2009 | 28 replies
They are always dressed well with newer clothes and shoes.One day I saw one of them go buy a soda and some food at a gas station close by, then return to holding his sign for a handout.If people stopped giving them handouts, they would be forced to go and get a job.Chris
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11 May 2023 | 29 replies
I'm going w/ eggshell when I repaint in the hopes that a damp sponge can delay repaints for a while.
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30 November 2017 | 59 replies
Teach your own kids how to grow cotton and sew their own clothes, but let other parents do as they please when it comes to their kid's education.
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4 June 2010 | 27 replies
If you are like most people, the first day your child went to school you were right there holding his hand making sure everything was perfect, making sure that he had the right clothes and that his backpack was full of pencils and paper, and that he was ready to learn – everything was perfect.
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24 May 2010 | 20 replies
It's funny we spend so much money on clothing and trappings only to present a crappy business card that looks like a child wrote the copy.
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27 July 2010 | 28 replies
I would like to outsource cooking, grocery shopping, paying bills, folding clothes and just about everything that isn't FUN or GOING TO MAKE ME RICH, but eventually you would spend all of your time and money outsourcing rather then living your life.
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19 December 2021 | 102 replies
I try and stand out by wearing bright color clothes with my ibuyhomes.com logo.
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11 September 2011 | 56 replies
When your daily tools are flea spray, bolt cutters, a flash light, a digital camera, a measuring wheel or tape measure, a respirator, and a change of clothes for when you sit on a urine stained couch.
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22 December 2015 | 102 replies
I know what its like to be struggling for survival... to cut cable, home phone and internet, have to go to the library for internet access, live on cheap bread, tuna and peanut butter, keep thermostat at 55 in the winter to save fuel, cutting copper out of an old schoolhouse to buy gas to get to work, buying clothe at salvation army.
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11 January 2023 | 42 replies
They never did another STR after that. i had renters in Jackson MS put clothes hangers in the lugs and tie direct to the 220 coming from the pole all to skip the meter.. crazy. not sure how many over time get fried.. but it happens.