I think I am heading off to bed

I just got my last unemployment check and have to wait 2 weeks for the extension but I have one week overlap that I don't know if I get paid for or not. We owned our own business for 20+ years, and still own our garage and have it rented out. I went to work for health insurance and I still have that through the cobra coverage. I just need to find another job that will give me health insurance!!!

This one is almost paid off. I have plans that it will happen really soon, like within the next year and a half perhaps. We have gas heat, electric, etc. I may have to go back to work, or work harder at earning online.

We are both uninsured at the time. Hubby will start Medicare this year, or rather next year, but less than a year from now. I have a tribal card, so I could go get established at an Indian clinic. That is what some of my family members do.

I probably would be told that having a concrete slab laid over it is what ruined it. I appreciate the link. I remember thinking how pretty that blue hose was. It was somewhere around 1994 that it was done. I am relieved to know, however, that the sewer I had put in before that was PVC.

Lookie what I found! http://www.polybutylene.com/poly.html

I would think she would be glad to have you for that. Most everything that ever broke, except plumbing, my first hubby could do, including wiring.Plumbing made him throw stuff. The stuff in this house is so pieced together by previous handymen it made me skeptical. Current hubby was willing to try on the breaker, but I felt more confident in this case to have the professional.There is some stuff that is still messed up, in my opinion, but not threatening, so it will wait.

Loverbear: I need you at my house, lol! I've had a lot of plumbing problems over the years which has cost me quite a bit of money. I've also been without a car since Wednesday this past week. I didn't get to take it to the mechanic until Thursday, though. I was driving home from volunteering out at the therapeutic riding center Tuesday and when I started to go after stopping at an intersection, my car acted like it was going to quit on me. I couldn't get it to pick up any speed whatsoever. I got cramps in my legs from trying to give it the gas! When I turned the car off in my carport, I smelled a funny, electrical smell from the car. I got a call from the man working on it yesterday and he said the catalytic converter was stopped up and that I needed a new one. He told me how much it was going to cost and I was so stressed out all day yesterday wondering where I was going to get the money. He said it would be Tuesday before he could get the new part for it and as much as I hated to do this, I decided to use the money I have in my paypal account. I have money in my bank account but I need it and I didn't have any other option. You just don't realize how much you take things like a car for granted until you have to do without one. I've just about learned to live with car trouble, though, because I've had a lot of it over the years, even when my parents were living. I do a lot of horseback riding and it's at times like this when I've often jokingly said that we might as well go back to horses, LOL!

Oh, this house needs many many things. We have no credit cards. Ruined that a few years back. We could possibly have gotten a signature loan, but my preference is to get money back into savings quickly. I hate paying interest.

Oh, this house needs many many things. We have no credit cards. Ruined that a few years back. We could possibly have gotten a signature loan, but my preference is to get money back into savings quickly. I hate paying interest.

This house was two apartments when we purchased it. Some things I have had fixed numerous times. I also used to think when we fixed one thing, something else got jealous and wanted fixed as well. In the seventies my dad managed a subdivision of new homes that were pretty pricey for the times and they were really shoddily made. Old houses in some ways are better.

This house was two apartments when we purchased it. Some things I have had fixed numerous times. I also used to think when we fixed one thing, something else got jealous and wanted fixed as well. In the seventies my dad managed a subdivision of new homes that were pretty pricey for the times and they were really shoddily made. Old houses in some ways are better.

I did not have to do a lot of the work, but I will have to rake and water in the soil where the new line went in. Are your apartments some you own, or some you rent. I am aware that in some places people buy their apartments. They need to get repairs done as soon as possible to reduce the future damage.

We had to learn what to plug in to which circuits. I think that is the case with older homes and newer appliances.

Our church had a financial freedom seminar. I have never taken it, but one of my friends said that the first step you are supposed to take is to get $1000 in savings. I had a little over $400 I had put away before I ran out of sick leave. I hardly ever spend my PayPal, so the rest came out of there. I need to get regular with income since I quit the one Freelance thing, and start building up again. In the winter the city here puts insulation in the meters and charges us an average bill for the winter on water and sewer. They read it in the spring, divide it out and that is your new average.They are supposed to do an adjustment of some kind since we paid for a plumber.

Yes, that is past the time when they were using the blue polybutylene piping. I found some pieces of it in my yard where they pulled it out. It is about as brittle as a chicken leg bone. No wonder it was leaking. I hope your house stays in good working order a good long while.

yup me too (especially if I stay in it lol)...

Spent down the savings, which actually was a new thing for me to have. I had put it away for an emergency. Time to build it up again.

Our friend Hatley is in a retirement center in California. I have worked in some, and I have worked in group homes with the adult disabled. I own a house or a money pit. Take your choice. The house payments are so low, it is almost paid off, I have told hubby that as we reach our retirement years we need to be smart and proactively fix EVERYTHING. I think this convinced him. I did quit a stressful job in January. I wish I had the money, glad I do not have the job. Good luck with your move.

Oh. I was confused. The money pit business is one reason I never bought a house.

What they ended up doing here, Kathy was to put in a brand new water line, and send it in through a different spot in the basement to my hot water heater. This house was probably built around 1890 or so. I do not know if something like that would work for you, because what I am reading here is that you do not even have a crawl space, right?

My house was built in 1959, if that makes sense. It really means a lot to me because daddy built this house and there's a lot of history here.

No, I don't have any crawl space. I bet your house is very pretty since it was built in 1890. I imagine it's interesting, too.

With all the things that CAN go wrong, I really have been pretty fortunate.

The Landlord is ignoring the fact tht repairs and tht need to be done, so tomorrow the Council is coming out to check things over and he will not ignore them

Gabs, I am alright. Roof over the head, loved ones around me. Why do you think you have been had? I will look for a discussion.

We had a person refer us to this plumber. I had visions of each repair costing like yours. I think I have hubby convinced he has got to start some preventative maintenance.Of course what went wrong could not have been prevented.

Well the bill swallowed up what little I had put back. Try again. I hope you are feeling a little healthier now. I will send you an e mail later.

Actually, having a savings account was new for me, but I was glad it was here. I will have to build it up again. Between the two repairs, I spent $725. Before I am old enough for retirement I would like to get some income and fix everything.

Hatley, they keep telling us the economy is improving, but I will believe it when all of my friends and my son are fully employed. That includes your son as well. Ownership has its pluses and minuses.

I hope someone can come and help you. My son is living with us, and we help him and he helps us as well. If I find a way to make a fortune, I will share, Okay?

HI Gerty and how sweet of you:) I hope you get wealthy and just roll over in money! I wouldn't take your money tho but your consideration is sweet and nice. I do thank you from the bottom of my heart ! I worked in the garage most of the day til I pooped out. I will get the rest of it done tomorrow I hope as I have not set a date with the exterminator to come and spray or whatever it is they do. I understand they dig trenches around the house and also put holes in walls and porches to put the poison in. I do not have to take my dogs and cats out the area either. I just have to keep out of his vicinity so they do not get into the poison before it is buried. This guy won't disturb my flowers either and the first guy told me he and his help would strample them into the ground and I had the option to move them. My son might help the exterminator if he can but my son is busy all the time with his boys playing ball and he works five days a week and sometimes on Saturdays too. I'll be fine. I just need to get some good rest tonight and tackle the rest of the garage tomorrow. I do so thank you for offering any found or earned wealth tho ! That is really sweet and it speaks for the good person you are. many hugs, quita