Originally Posted by Grayson's mom (Post 1542665)

another idea if you bake then bake and sell your goodies!

We have people come by our office and sell cakes by the slice for 2.00 a slice.

Think how much you could make our "cake man" has about 4 choices for us to choose from. We love to see him come!

Originally Posted by yorkiesmiles (Post 1540793)

I've made this huge type of mistakes before. I've forgotten to deduct things - like the house payment one time and another time a big payment I did online, I was walking around thinking I had all this money and I didn't :confused:

I hope your utility company will work with you - I've done the same thing before. Are you on budget billing with them? If not, that might help you to get on that, so you know exactly how much your bill will be each month.

Ebay or selling things here are terrific ideas if you can do that. How about brainstorming for things that you could make for your children. Or perhaps you could work with you children to come up with some great ideas for how to spend time as a family during Christmas that doesn't involve money.

Another idea to stretch your money is the dollar store -- it is really unbelievable the things you can uncover there. Just this last weekend, I saw ABC morning news do an entire thing about the bargins people are finding at places like Dollar Tree and Dollar General. They showed a guy making 6 figures shopping at the dollar store, and talked about how people who shop high-end stores are also shopping at the dollar store.

But most importantly you may have a great chance to put the focus on what Christmas really means; it's hard to understand how Christmas came to be about this huge mound of wrapped gifts, when really it's about accepting God's greatest gift to us.

Originally Posted by Graleyne (Post 1544694)

Well, I turned him in for failure to pay. I figured they called/contacted him and he got scared and figured he'd better step up and do something before he ended up in jail.

The story he told me is that he has a permanent job now and he went down to the office and asked them if there was any way to set it up so they take money out of his check and mail it directly to me. They told him yes they just needed to know how much and where to send it to.

Now, I'm pretty positive that isn't the entire truth.

BUT, it isn't like him to call me unless he IS planning on paying.

That's why I want to be really excited and believe I will get money every week, but I'm still worried.

Originally Posted by Graleyne (Post 1551418)

Things did get a little better. I posted in another thread instead of this one lol :rolleyes:

Here is what happened thanks to everyone's prayers:

MORE good news!!!!

My mom and Ga-Ga (my grandmother) got together and are giving me enough money to cover everything! That's what they are giving me for Christmas.

I am SO RELIEVED! It is the best Christmas present!



I will get to pay everythng ON TIME with NO LATE FEES!



Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for all the YT prayers, wishes, and thoughts!

I am so happy I can't stop crying!