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Quote from slowtech : talking about cars, same brother was in a car accident 2 wks ago and the car was totalled so he has to look for another car. he's ok except for a busted lip that needed stitches and one tooth is going to need a root canal and of course the aches and pains. he's looking for a small car w/ good gas mileage. he told me today he's looking into the honda civic and ford focus. i also suggested the hyundai elantra that a friend ended up getting for her teenage daughter after the honda element proved not good for a beginner driver and we've also rented it b4. does anybody have any suggestions or feedback? he said his budget is 15K but where he got that much money from i don't know b/c the book value on his car is only 5K and he's not getting that much from the insurance co. he's living at my parents' house b/c he can't afford to even rent. and he stopped giving my parents money too. i'm glad you had a good time. maybe one day you will have the opportunity to come again and create some new memories.

I'm sorry to hear about your brother's accident, did I miss this earlier? I'm thankful for your family that he wasn't more seriously injured. Totaled cars- they are doing what they are designed to do. They are replaceable. The people we love aren't.
Is he looking at new or used cars? With a $15000 budget he should be able to find a lot in his price range.

Thank you so much for all the kind words. I sent out an email to all the hundreds of emails I'll post it below so you can see it.


Below is the post on Slickdeals that made my decision to stop the printables. Since it's about the colgate coupon, I won't be sharing that one for sure again. If you are a long time follower and trusted friend or you have 1,000 reps on SD (give or take), I'll consider emailing the other coupons. You will have to pm me at SD to consider including you in the printables. I just have to watch myself. I don't think I did anything wrong but I'm disabled and don't have the resources to fight a battle. Hope you understand.

Just a heads up to you all....i took some of these coupons that came from "we pillage the village" to my SM at my jedi store when placing my preorder and he told me something very disturbing!!! He said a message came down from corporate about these "fraudulent coupons!!" - i wasn't comfortable just using them b/c i knew they came from the diabetes mag in walgreens and it appears that website just scanned them and put them into a PDF for anyone to mass produce! Again, im no expert at this, however, the memo instructed SMers to call the POLICE if/when someone tried to redeem these FAKE coupons! I would hate for anyone to get in trouble for using something that someone else put on the internet that wasn't legit....take this as a warning - the stores are being informed on this activity and it sounds like they are itching to make an example out of someone due to some very unethical practices in their stores i pray no one here is like that, however, since this thread is for 1000's to view freely, i could not read this memo from the corporate office and not give you all a HU! If you are considering using them, know this that the CIC (FBI of coupons)are investigating that website and its affiliates as we speak - per the memo from RA corp...and they are willing to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law!!! i googled them and people have rec'd 20 years hard time and over $500,000 in fines even for a 1st offense with no prior record!!!! i know that most of you on here have families and children...it would be a horrible thing to only be able to visit your family from behind a piece of glass over a phone - just sharing, because this stuff is no joke!!

Quote from silkypup : Thank you so much for all the kind words. I sent out an email to all the hundreds of emails I'll post it below so you can see it. Below is the post on Slickdeals that made my decision to stop the printables. Since it's about the colgate coupon, I won't be sharing that one for sure again. If you are a long time follower and trusted friend or you have 1,000 reps on SD (give or take), I'll consider emailing the other coupons. You will have to pm me at SD to consider including you in the printables. I just have to watch myself. I don't think I did anything wrong but I'm disabled and don't have the resources to fight a battle. Hope you understand. Just a heads up to you all....i took some of these coupons that came from "we pillage the village" to my SM at my jedi store when placing my preorder and he told me something very disturbing!!! He said a message came down from corporate about these "fraudulent coupons!!" - i wasn't comfortable just using them b/c i knew they came from the diabetes mag in walgreens and it appears that website just scanned them and put them into a PDF for anyone to mass produce! Again, im no expert at this, however, the memo instructed SMers to call the POLICE if/when someone tried to redeem these FAKE coupons! I would hate for anyone to get in trouble for using something that someone else put on the internet that wasn't legit....take this as a warning - the stores are being informed on this activity and it sounds like they are itching to make an example out of someone due to some very unethical practices in their stores i pray no one here is like that, however, since this thread is for 1000's to view freely, i could not read this memo from the corporate office and not give you all a HU! If you are considering using them, know this that the CIC (FBI of coupons)are investigating that website and its affiliates as we speak - per the memo from RA corp...and they are willing to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law!!! i googled them and people have rec'd 20 years hard time and over $500,000 in fines even for a 1st offense with no prior record!!!! i know that most of you on here have families and children...it would be a horrible thing to only be able to visit your family from behind a piece of glass over a phone - just sharing, because this stuff is no joke!!

to you silkypup, and it sounds like CIC has once again messed up a legit thing. The FBI of coupons??

Not Bud again!!!!!

to Silky

Quote from setsail : I'm sorry to hear about your brother's accident, did I miss this earlier? I'm thankful for your family that he wasn't more seriously injured. Totaled cars- they are doing what they are designed to do. They are replaceable. The people we love aren't. Is he looking at new or used cars? With a $15000 budget he should be able to find a lot in his price range.

no, just lots of stuff all happening at the same time.

italy sil came last, last friday and left yesterday. she wanted us to order some costumes for her kiddies. i recommended not getting the tights b/c bad reviews, she's like it's just 5.00, it's supposed to be a bigger size, she just sent me an email and picture today of them dressed up for carnival, she said the tights were cheap and too small. also ordered twilight and latest sara jessica parker movie for her. i think she ended up watching twilight as pay per view in her hotel room and saw the sjp movie on the plane and totally forgot we'd bought the movies from amazon for her so she *lent* the sjp movie to her family friend. her daughter will want to watch breaking dawn so that's all good.

whenever we buy stuff for her, many, many emails go back and forth and can take half a day getting everything squared away b/c she's very vague sometimes. also had to arrange for when the family can all get together, that's always a big chore b/c of her sister's hectic social life and her 2 kids school activities. tons of emails going round and round in circles. b4 she left she wanted to know if i still had the list of dvd's we bought for her last time. if anybody recalls it took me yrs to persuade her not to pay full price and just give us time to order them online and saved her over 100.00 last time. i'm thinking of setting up a box.net acct to keep docs of what she has and what she wants so that she, we and her sister can all access them.

italy sil also was offered a new job so she won't be coming for fashion wk in the spring and fall anymore. lots of discussion about that. so we made sure to see her twice this time b/c don't know when next we will see her. this is always a big production, we have to figure out who is picking up and driving home her grandparents (usually us) and driving home her parents (always us now) and picking her up at the hotel and dropping her off. always ends up us. she is planning to come once a yr w/ the kids. looks like it will be xmas this yr.

my db had the car accident day b4 the superbowl, wk b4 italy sil came. i offered to drive my mom and him around to do errands, the car is actually in my mom's name so she has to deal w/ the insurance. my mom instead has my 80yr old dad drive them around and then complains about it and asks us to take them to the police station to have the police officer amend the report. mind you he works the 11pm-8am night shift and she wanted us to drive an hr and a half to go pick them up, drive to the police station 15-20 mins away and then drive them back home and then drive an hr and a half back home. basically in the middle of the night. and we cannot sleep over b/c my brother is living there b/c he can't afford to rent. or they could take a car service. i told my mom to take car service. the tolls and gas alone for us is more than the car service. i would gladly pay it and not have to come home 2-3am in the morning. i think my brother was able to take care of it over the phone.....

for that reason we also try not pick up italy sil from the airport b/c she always flies into the one 2hrs from us and anyway her own sister lives not half an hr away from the airport and her dh hasn't been working in 4yrs. he can rearrange whatever schedule he has to go pick them up. only if for whatever reason we happen to be in the vicinity will we do it. it's literally cheaper to take a taxi for $40 than for us to go all the way there and just drop them off wherever b/c she usually has plans w/ friends so it's not like we pick them up and spend time w/ them. we've literally waited at the airport for them, picked them up and dropped them off and then drive 1.5-2hrs to go home.

the wrecked car was actually my middle db's. he gave it to our youngest db when he needed a car to drive to work. so this whole car thing is a whole family affair. we saw him last sunday after having lunch w/ italy sil and played w/ his son for a few hrs. he lives in atlanta and stays in an adjoining apt from his sil who i found out from my mom was pregnant a few months ago. my db and sil never said anything. she is due any day, only found out from overhearing convo between all of them w/ her bil's sister who drove up for the day to see her db that they are having a boy, that my brother seems to be renting out some property or other. ok, whatever. i would have offered to shop baby clearance for her and pick up stuff for her sister since we see them almost every time my db comes up from atlanta to see his fil but i feel since they don't want to say anything to me about it at all, why should i offer to help? whatever. they are both dr's, they can afford it even though i know my sil will save a buck when she can and her sister is not a spendthrift.

oh yeah, also picked up a clearance duvet cover for nephew cuz now when sil here wants something now she always tells me to keep an eye out (bff also now does same thing b/c they know i will eventually come across it cheap) and sil said 15 yr old nephew should pay for it. black friday we took him to buy a tv at walmart and silly dh paid for it and nephew said he would pay us back. came sunday to go home and he still refused to give us the money so his mom ended up paying us. also didn't pay back his brother's friend the 2.00 he borrowed. i could see i was not going to get money from sil or bil so i docked nephew's chinese new yr money at dinner on friday. he said he would pay me back but fool me twice, shame on me. i knew he was upset but i wanted to teach him a lesson that he has a bad reputation for not paying up and his brother's friend is going to be around this wk so hopefully we will here that he paid him back. i think my sil should pay for it, it's her responsibility to provide room and board until he is 18 but there is probably some dynamic there i don't know about, probably he owes his mom money, i've heard her say that b4 so maybe this was her way of collecting by pushing it on me. she knows her db/my dh isn't working so i cannot afford to be so generous, she's the one making the big bucks in the family now.

Wow ST, your family does put you through a lot. I would completely stop helping. They are taking advantage of you and are good at making you feel guilty for not allowing them to do so.

Did take a little trip to a more friendly T store today. 2 stores actually. Had a nice trip.

So nice to have friendly cashiers that don't mind scanning a few Qs.

No great deals to report. Just stocked up on Boost, Dole Pineapple Chunks, Hunts Tomatoes, Campbell's new Slow Kettle soup, Up2U Gum and Wolf Brand Chili while I had Qs. Also found some Up & Up paper towels. No Iams.

Quote from HDDVDTV : Did take a little trip to a more friendly T store today. 2 stores actually. Had a nice trip. So nice to have friendly cashiers that don't mind scanning a few Qs. No great deals to report. Just stocked up on Boost, Dole Pineapple Chunks, Hunts Tomatoes, Campbell's new Slow Kettle soup, Up2U Gum and Wolf Brand Chili while I had Qs. Also found some Up & Up paper towels. No Iams.

Yeah for some good runs!!

Quote from slowtech : no, just lots of stuff all happening at the same time. italy sil came last, last friday and left yesterday. she wanted us to order some costumes for her kiddies. i recommended not getting the tights b/c bad reviews, she's like it's just 5.00, it's supposed to be a bigger size, she just sent me an email and picture today of them dressed up for carnival, she said the tights were cheap and too small. also ordered twilight and latest sara jessica parker movie for her. i think she ended up watching twilight as pay per view in her hotel room and saw the sjp movie on the plane and totally forgot we'd bought the movies from amazon for her so she *lent* the sjp movie to her family friend. her daughter will want to watch breaking dawn so that's all good. whenever we buy stuff for her, many, many emails go back and forth and can take half a day getting everything squared away b/c she's very vague sometimes. also had to arrange for when the family can all get together, that's always a big chore b/c of her sister's hectic social life and her 2 kids school activities. tons of emails going round and round in circles. b4 she left she wanted to know if i still had the list of dvd's we bought for her last time. if anybody recalls it took me yrs to persuade her not to pay full price and just give us time to order them online and saved her over 100.00 last time. i'm thinking of setting up a box.net acct to keep docs of what she has and what she wants so that she, we and her sister can all access them. italy sil also was offered a new job so she won't be coming for fashion wk in the spring and fall anymore. lots of discussion about that. so we made sure to see her twice this time b/c don't know when next we will see her. this is always a big production, we have to figure out who is picking up and driving home her grandparents (usually us) and driving home her parents (always us now) and picking her up at the hotel and dropping her off. always ends up us. she is planning to come once a yr w/ the kids. looks like it will be xmas this yr. my db had the car accident day b4 the superbowl, wk b4 italy sil came. i offered to drive my mom and him around to do errands, the car is actually in my mom's name so she has to deal w/ the insurance. my mom instead has my 80yr old dad drive them around and then complains about it and asks us to take them to the police station to have the police officer amend the report. mind you he works the 11pm-8am night shift and she wanted us to drive an hr and a half to go pick them up, drive to the police station 15-20 mins away and then drive them back home and then drive an hr and a half back home. basically in the middle of the night. and we cannot sleep over b/c my brother is living there b/c he can't afford to rent. or they could take a car service. i told my mom to take car service. the tolls and gas alone for us is more than the car service. i would gladly pay it and not have to come home 2-3am in the morning. i think my brother was able to take care of it over the phone..... for that reason we also try not pick up italy sil from the airport b/c she always flies into the one 2hrs from us and anyway her own sister lives not half an hr away from the airport and her dh hasn't been working in 4yrs. he can rearrange whatever schedule he has to go pick them up. only if for whatever reason we happen to be in the vicinity will we do it. it's literally cheaper to take a taxi for $40 than for us to go all the way there and just drop them off wherever b/c she usually has plans w/ friends so it's not like we pick them up and spend time w/ them. we've literally waited at the airport for them, picked them up and dropped them off and then drive 1.5-2hrs to go home. the wrecked car was actually my middle db's. he gave it to our youngest db when he needed a car to drive to work. so this whole car thing is a whole family affair. we saw him last sunday after having lunch w/ italy sil and played w/ his son for a few hrs. he lives in atlanta and stays in an adjoining apt from his sil who i found out from my mom was pregnant a few months ago. my db and sil never said anything. she is due any day, only found out from overhearing convo between all of them w/ her bil's sister who drove up for the day to see her db that they are having a boy, that my brother seems to be renting out some property or other. ok, whatever. i would have offered to shop baby clearance for her and pick up stuff for her sister since we see them almost every time my db comes up from atlanta to see his fil but i feel since they don't want to say anything to me about it at all, why should i offer to help? whatever. they are both dr's, they can afford it even though i know my sil will save a buck when she can and her sister is not a spendthrift. oh yeah, also picked up a clearance duvet cover for nephew cuz now when sil here wants something now she always tells me to keep an eye out (bff also now does same thing b/c they know i will eventually come across it cheap) and sil said 15 yr old nephew should pay for it. black friday we took him to buy a tv at walmart and silly dh paid for it and nephew said he would pay us back. came sunday to go home and he still refused to give us the money so his mom ended up paying us. also didn't pay back his brother's friend the 2.00 he borrowed. i could see i was not going to get money from sil or bil so i docked nephew's chinese new yr money at dinner on friday. he said he would pay me back but fool me twice, shame on me. i knew he was upset but i wanted to teach him a lesson that he has a bad reputation for not paying up and his brother's friend is going to be around this wk so hopefully we will here that he paid him back. i think my sil should pay for it, it's her responsibility to provide room and board until he is 18 but there is probably some dynamic there i don't know about, probably he owes his mom money, i've heard her say that b4 so maybe this was her way of collecting by pushing it on me. she knows her db/my dh isn't working so i cannot afford to be so generous, she's the one making the big bucks in the family now.

What a lot of stuff :hug. You need all the hugs you can get.

Quote from setsail : Wow ST, your family does put you through a lot. I would completely stop helping. They are taking advantage of you and are good at making you feel guilty for not allowing them to do so.

Quote from cathi4savings : What a lot of stuff :hug. You need all the hugs you can get.

thanks guys. that was the last 3 wks or so.

i don't mind helping our families, actually my mil is always good and always thankful for whatever we can do for them and the grandparents, we would do it gladly. it's just the thoughtlessness and my mother trying to manipulate me that makes me pissed off. i also know my italy sil is truly grateful for what we do for her, she's just a bit of a blonde and at times inconsiderate. but she does not take stuff for granted like her sister, she definitely has better manners. she used to be a model and married into a wealthy italian family but her and dh don't even make enough to maintain their lifestyle so she gets lots of help from her in-laws. so i know she appreciates if we can shop for her and save her money but it's difficult unless you say exactly what you want and she's not good at that. drove dh batty ordering the costumes and then had to complain to me about it. your sister.

as you can see, i have to be careful of her younger sister and make sure she doesn't walk all over me. can you believe a long time ago she asked if her family plus 3 other families could stay over cuz we lived close to the amusement park and they wanted to get there early for the character breakfast? my dh had to work but i said maybe i can go w/ you guys and she said no, after the amusement park they were headed to another city and couldn't drive me back home cuz it was in the other direction. so there would be a total of 8 adults and 8 kids sleeping overnite at my house just like a hotel. btw- i have a 4 bedroom house, i don't know where she thought all these people would sleep and then 16 people using the bathroom in the morning and then take off b4 i woke up? so i said only she and one other family could stay over. they all just ended up leaving from home early in the morning.

don't know what's up w/ my nephew and money. i told his mom in advance that i'd found a duvet cover that he wanted b/c his blanket or whatever was itchy or rough. i think his mom should have paid for it but i also gave my nephew oreo to go cups, nivea lip balm and c9 q's that day so his mom will use them to buy him clothes that he always forgets to bring to his 2nd home so i know he is getting new clothes this wk, drove him and waited w/ him to get the tv, gave him school supplies, etc. so i don't feel bad. if he does owe people money, he needs to learn to pay them back and they should not have to ask him for it. even if it's a couple bucks he should offer the money right away it's up to them to say forget it, it's just a couple dollars. next time i will have second thoughts to taking him shopping. we put money away for them every yr for college cuz his parents do not and they know all about it. so i wasn't about to pay for the tv.

my mom is the worst. she loves to complain. and for some reason she needs to put me in a bad light and lies to me. for my cousin's wedding she did not tell me my uncle had invited everyone over to their house b4hand but i met my cousin for lunch and shopping 2 wks b4 and told me she told my mom to tell me to come over. then i told my dad the wk b4 that my mom still hadn't said anything, i didn't understand why. we showed up and surprised my mom, she stomped around and said she'd only been told 2 days b4 but i totally knew that was a bald-faced lie. if we hadn't shown up would have made me look bad. why would she do that to me?

dh said he didn't want to drive all the way out there just to end up taking my brother to the dentist but what my mom was asking was even more crazy. i feel my mom tried to engineer the situation so she can just complain about everyone not being helpful, my dad being impatient w/ driving them around to take pics of the car and my db to the dentist (he also is not a good driver anymore esp unfamiliar places so i don't know why she even had him do it in the first place. couple yrs ago my dad was going to give up driving altogether.) and us not willing to drive them around in the middle of the night. we live over 50 miles away in another state and she wanted us to come out so late and drive them to one place less than 10 miles from home and then go home in the middle of the night. my brother had just gotten into an accident at night and she wanted us to be driving around even later and tired.

many times it's not a lot of effort but it's the mind games that go on that make it bad.

ST : Save yourself from these people , you can't help the world but you can help yourself .

More hugs, my emoticons aren't showing again, soooo I'll do it verbally.

Another beautiful day here. Sun is shinning.

No mail today so no coupons coming in. Planning on getting Tylenol Precise at Wags when coupons get here. DD uses these for her neck.

Hope everyone has a great day.

Quote from tn_native : You'd have to read 50+ pages to understand the issue. It's Bunnies chat thread.

Ut oh...what did I do?

Quote from cathi4savings : Ohhh, that explains it , tell her I said Hi

I am here. I just am not here as often as I would like to be. I really should and want to come back to chat reading!

Quote from tn_native : bunnies doesn't seem to post there though.

I am here! I am here!

I am trying to read and catch up a bit.

Silky...I have read some and understand a little bit about what's happening. I am sorry that you are going through this!

ThisMom...oh man...I will keep your family and brother in my prayers. I can understand the feeling down. I have been feeling down for a few weeks now. Lots going on here and just feeling overwhelmed.

ST..hugs for you and the family

HDD....I LUV, LUV, LUV YA!!!! I will never stop stalking you.

Ank...and hugs for you.

Reg..wow what a surprise to see you in T chat! Welcome!

Hugs to all. I am sure I am missing a ton of peeps, I need to read and catch up.

Bunnieeeeeeeeeeees. Glad to see you back.