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Anyone else poor now?

lipglossjunky73 Thread views: 1,631

Anyone else poor now?

I'm not talking about too poor to buy a Juicy outfit - I mean - negative balance in the bank....

and we still have gifts to buy!!!

we are using gift cards we received for our engagement to help us out - but it's still not enough...

What are we going to do????

ChrissynRicky Thread views: 1,631

Re: Anyone else poor now?

Okay, what's 'Juicy'

Soon2BMrsA Thread views: 1,631

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Posted by ChristineAEV

Okay, what's 'Juicy'

it's a line of clothing-brandname

ChrissynRicky Thread views: 1,631

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Posted by Soon2BMrsA

Posted by ChristineAEV

Okay, what's 'Juicy'

it's a line of clothing-brandname

Oh Fa real??? Thanks...didn't know that.

Now if you said 'Rocawear....'

MCDO15 Thread views: 1,631

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giving is nice if you can do it, don't force yourself when you can not. its the spirt and caring that matters.

im not doing xmas this year in my house...
just a tree and a good attitude... we told others we can't exchange and they understand cause we just had a wedding and a house purchase....

evnme Thread views: 1,631

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that's why fh and i arent giving gifts this year...

tracy2246 Thread views: 1,631

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I am sort of in the same boat-everyone needs to understand that right now money is tight with the wedding and etc-

Things will pick up

Mystere Thread views: 1,631

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fortunately i'm not negative - but we've really hit the credit cards hard and done the minimum payments whenever we get our paychecks. i'm hoping for christmas money to help make payments - i cant wait for after the wedding when the bills are paid and the stress of living paycheck to paycheck is minimized for a couple months before we start house hunting. it never ends.

ETA: this year christmas is hard - i usually go over board and so does my family but this year i cant afford it and i feel bad b/c i just got them a couple of little things.

Nadia Thread views: 1,631

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Posted by evnme

that's why fh and i arent giving gifts this year...

same here

SweetCin704 Thread views: 1,631

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We're not negative but I am soooo stressing over what we're saving & what we will have by our wedding....we're so over budget..FH has to realize....I think he's oblivious b/c I do all the bills & b/c we have $ in the bank he doesn't think there's a problem.....URRRRRRR

We put a set amount on gifts w/ family & e/o this year.

lipglossjunky73 Thread views: 1,631

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Posted by MCDO15

giving is nice if you can do it, don't force yourself when you can not. its the spirt and caring that matters.

im not doing xmas this year in my house...
just a tree and a good attitude... we told others we can't exchange and they understand cause we just had a wedding and a house purchase....

We couldn't afford a tree...

lipglossjunky73 Thread views: 1,631

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We're not paying for the wedding - my dad is - if we had to pay, we wouldn't be having a wedding at all... just a ceremony in a park...

MJDoc12 Thread views: 1,631

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put the gifts cards down--step away from your credit card and stop buying gifts!!!

christmas is about family and spending time with one another...not about bouncing checks and spending $$ on gifts you can't afford. if you don't have...YOU DON'T HAVE IT!!

give friends and family a nice card...and let them know that times are tough. they will understand.

want to make them nice inexpensive gifts? to to michael's or bed, bath & beyond, and buy some discounted holiday platters (BBB had some for $2!) and then go home and bake some cookies, brownies, cake, etc. and then create holiday gift platters out of it. that way you don't go empty handed, and save $$

STBH Thread views: 1,631

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we arent negative YET but getting real close! I also have been hitting the cc real hard and need to stop. hopefully itll all work out

lipglossjunky73 Thread views: 1,631

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lipglossjunky73 Thread views: 1,631

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Posted by MJDoc12

put the gifts cards down--step away from your credit card and stop buying gifts!!!

CC are not available to us - we said that the plus side to all this this year is that we won't have bills after xmas for the gifts we bought...

Theatrimelz Thread views: 1,631

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yes I am poor and too despressed to go into detail...

06NovBride Thread views: 1,631

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Yea we are in sad shape this christmas. We had to put some of our christmas spending on credit cards. We really cut down this year on spending money.

2006bride2be Thread views: 1,631

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I have some money saved but I am so afraid of having to use all of it for the wedding and then being poor. It has taken me a long time to save it and sometimes I feel it will be crazy if we have to blow it all for one day.