I’d leave it be. Maybe the grandfather just comes from a generation where you do a tux for a super special occasion and it’s an honor in his mind. I couldn’t care less what any of my guests wore. And would have not taken anything negatively.

I would help him by finding an OT who specializes in retained infant reflexes and have him evaluated. It was night and day difference after OT. It wasn’t cheap and it wasn’t easy, but wow, what a difference. I’d do it all over again in a heartbeat.

I don’t view it as quitting, but as their way of handling their emotions. They recognize that if they stay, it won’t be good. I had one who really needed space, even if he caused the problem or hit somebody etc. He couldn’t take correction in the moment; it wasn’t a cop out and it wasn’t quitting. He really really couldn’t handle it. He did outgrow it but we also did therapy for retained reflexes. His fight or flight reflex was HIGH! The therapy was amazing- OT exercises from someone who specialized in infant reflexes. OT was around age 11 or 12 years- first time we heard of it.

What about those little prescription cough pills that supposedly numb the throat a bit? (helps me not feel that tickle). Tessalon Pearls.

Transaction downloads are bank dependent. Banks/Ccs provide the schedule to ynab. One of my banks/Cc doesn’t seem to provide new downloads to ynab over weekends/holidays.

You had the money in Ready to Assign, but you didn’t have $2800 assigned to groceries (your original target), so that’s why yellow. The red/green/yellow tells whether you’ve assigned the targeted amount or not (if you have a target) to the category. It doesn’t look at what you have in Ready to Assign. It turned to green once you changed the grocery target to $700 and you had at least $700 assigned to it.

Yes, you typically assign money to your categories each month. If the green amount is already enough to cover this months bills (since you did assigning yesterday), then just wait until Feb 1. I assign money throughout the month, after paychecks come in. Next to phone for example , I may have Phone bill -4th, to show me it’s due on the 4th of the month. I would find that category before something due on the 25th. Your groceries issue looks due to a goal you set. You have not spent $2000 and you are not in red. It appears your ‘goal’ was $2800 for groceries for a month, so it is saying you still need to fund $2100. Just change your goal to $700 if that’s the correct amount instead.

I use mostly credit cards and pay off monthly. And I do linked accounts. both checking and Cc are listed as accounts. I reconcile my linked accounts several times a week with the button. If all transactions are entered properly, it reconciles. If not, you investigate to find why. if you buy gas, the transaction is entered as (example) Payee- Mobile Gas Station, category -Honda Odyssey Gas Money, Account- credit card 1234. Then that $40 is ‘moved’ from Honda Gas Money to Credit Card 1234. And so forth for every transaction. The money moves from your budgeted category to your Cc category. (I have a main budget category as credit card payments, and then my credit cards are listed under that. I ‘think’ ynab did that based on my Cc accounts, but I can’t remember.) so when you pay your Cc bill the next month, the money to pay it has already been accounted for. Not sure if that helps or is just confusing. Watch the videos for credit cards.

I find it awesome for saving. I have lots of detailed savings categories that I contribute something to each month for those ‘not a surprise surprises’- car repairs, new car, new roof, roof repairs, new AC, new furniture, vacation, college visits, funeral flowers and flights, painting, home repairs, eye glasses and contacts, medical copays, dental costs, subscriptions, new computer, clothing and shoes etc. I use it for our regular expenses too of course, but staying organized and ready for future expenses is the best part for me. For big items like a roof/car/ac, I take an estimated cost and how many years before we might need to replace it to get a monthly estimated savings amount. I also like saving a little bit per person for clothing and shoes each month so I don’t have $100-$200 future ‘surprises’ if someone needs a suit or new shoes. Each family member has their own category. If we ever have extra unassigned money, I zero it out by assigning it to a category called Unspent Monthly Money which is a generic pot of money.

I don’t see that at all. Most core courses are worth 1 credit- English, math, sciences with labs. Many art, music, pe courses are 0.5 credit. And then there’s a mix.

My elderly dad always wanted candy and ice cream. I think a lot of food tastes bland as they age, so the sweets still tasted good. He also used to like those small handheld poker games or solitaire. 80s era simple electronics, just push a button.

I second this. We watched it as a family with my young (at the time) teens. They had zero social media until the last month of high school. It’s pretty necessary for college because IG is how the university and clubs communicate.

Do you have a link? All I’m finding is $5 of $20. Thanks

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I do, but via the ynab app which makes it so easy. Recently I found an $800 mistake. I deposited a check via the banks mobile app, got an emailed receipt that it was deposited, but it actually wasn’t. They don’t know what happened but they had no records of it and I had to deposit it again. Sometimes it’s smaller ones. A duplicate entry at a restaurant or a different amount. Until ynab, I just used to eyeball it and consider it good. I like reconciling it much better.

We had a similar living room in our cape cod. We had our couch on the window side- it’s nice to curl up and read by the window or look out while sitting there. I like that better than sitting across from the window. My grandmothers hope chest was between the end of the couch and the front door. we had our tv in an entertainment type unit (with bookcase/cabinets)across from the couch (where your couch is). we had an oversized chair floating between the end of couch and the end of the entertainment center. basically, I’d flip-flop your room. If you do, then you have a wall area to work with instead of windows. It’s much more usable than low space under a window.

I wouldn’t know. I went from 0 to 3 with my triplets 🤷‍♀️. I do know it wasn’t easy though 😂

I used to use Shutterfly and this past time used Mixbook. I like the Mixbook software a bit better to use, but my Shutterfly books always came out fine. I do think Shutterfly is less expensive.

What about a poinsettia?

My kids go to UCF, not UF, but they have a student portal and can run an audit report to see what courses they still need to take (major and minors) for graduation, and what courses are showing as already satisfied due to incoming credits. Is it possible your dd has something like that available?

My kids did Raise Me but then couldn’t use it since the merit aid they got through the school was higher. It doesn’t stack.

We kind of do them. The kids wore the same ones for years even if they had technically outgrown them. So I only had to buy two sets over the years. For us, the fun tradition was in having some kind of Christmas Eve/morning outfit and not the buying of new ones all time. Now we each just have Christmas tshirts from Walmart because we live in Florida and hate flannel/fleece pjs. The kids tshirts all match (elves) and me and dh have Mr/Mrs Claus type ones. I expect we’ll wear these for a very long time, lol.

cds and workbooks and lots of questions/stuff to think about https://celebratecalm.com/couples/

Maytag. Stainless steel interior and a food grinder/disposal. Ours is about 5 years old right now.

1- not unreasonable to ask, but also not unreasonable for them to want to bring their spouses especially if the money is coming out of the family bacation budget and it’s using vacation days. 2– I would suggest dh just say- I understand, it’s not a great idea. We’ll do a local party that all can attend. And then at a later point, do his own thing with dad.