My auctions have 1 hour left - should probably go to the store on the way home today and pick up some packing materials.

Our item is up to $8 (expecting $10) & MIL's items is up to $165 (get 20%!!!!). When I get the money I will add it to the challenge and subtract out the ebay fees and postage fees when I pay them rather than figure it out now- hehe.

I also have a freecycler picking up some kitchen stuff today - woohoo.

We might fix the flat today too. Probably should, but hey times like these the 2nd car that is super convenient but not necessity - well it pays off. I told dh something about how it would not be a smart choice to drop his car since when we bought it he needed it and now that it is more luxury, it is paid off and we will NEED it more soon enough. HE looked at me like I was crazy - "of course we NEED my car." LOL. LEt's just say he hasn't had to live through very tight times like I have. we COULD easily live without the car as we are coming up on a 3rd or 4th day this week of only 1 car - and hardly a headache. Yeah sure it is a PITA and it is probably better not to have to leave work to take the kids to doctor appointments and stuff, smarter to keep it. But necessity it is not. HEll we could even live without 2 cars, but I won't even go there with dh - he would probably keel over - LOL. Granted they make life so much EASIER. & they way we buy cars it cost us so little, so no matter, the benefit FAR outweighs the cost.

Oh yeah, back to Ebay. I have been SUPER annoyed because I have been getting tons of tons of ebay e-mails. How many questions can people have about an item. It is SO frustrating to me when I meticulously list the details of an items and no one pays attention. "Does it comes with this?" & "What does it come with?" So I respond over and over - what the listing says - that is what is there!!!!!!

& then I have been super annoyed because every time I get a "qustion about an item" ebay sends me an alert to beware of the message. Huh? IT is a question about an item - what the hell ebay???????

& then today I Saw why because I got 2 spams in that form. WOW. I have sold 2 or 3 items and never had any questions or spam or ebay alerts. They are driving me batty - the spam is super annoying though.

In other news my dh got scammed. He bought something through a storefront through Pricegrabber. We are both EXTREMELY careful when it comes to online puhases. So he checked the reviews on the store and they were something like 99% positive and he bought some electronic gadget - some kind of memory card. Anyway, they were pissing him off to no end because he also ordered something from asia that arrived FASTER so he e-mailed to ask where it was, and they just said it shipped. A week later, still not here. He is pissed because he sees it on sale at Fry's too by now. LAst night I told him just to go get it - he can return it if it arrives. So he did. & then he e-mails them again and they say they shipped it today (after saying last week it had shipped). So he goes back to the reviews and sees that the 1% of complaints were about slow shipping, but beyond that, the product is a fake. LOL. HE says he imagined most people just didn't notice. HE was looking for a particular brand for a particular reason and I guess they are trying to pass off something else. So it wasn't huge - $27 - we'll see if he gets his money back or if it even ever arrives - he will raise hell and report them and all that...

The thing is pretty sweet. A 1 GB memory card like the size of a - I don't even know it is so SMALL. Technology never ceases to amaze me... I don't like those super small things though - so easy to lose - LOL. IT's about as big as 3 grains of rice or something.

Dh's birthday is Friday. We didn't do gifts, but I figured I would not take the new card from his allowance. I'll be nice... His birthday gift. & maybe he will get the other one and it won't matter anyway...

Yesterday dh did a screening of his movie here. So I couldn't work very long yesterday - so going in today to work. I barely worked all week no matter. Then I have to stop by my neighbors to help her a little more with her quickbooks. I already charged her and was paid - will probably not make any more on the endeavor - mostly being nice and trying to help (why I didn't charge her much in the first place!). Just a busy day though.

Dh's movie is going really well though. I'll probably post more later, but it is potential he can receive a windfall on it this year. & if not, he is making his way up the ladder - all this unpaid work looks more and more like it will pay off with paid work soon enough. The timing is beautiful with where the kids are. In just 6 months Little monkey can start preschool and in 18 months his mom will be done working and can help watch the kids if he has work. Keeping my fingers crossed... I don't even think I mentioned they fired their paid editor (one of the only people PAID) and dh took over and everyone is very impressed. Including dh who has never edited an entire movie - it has been a good experience. HE is working another friend to edit his movie - I think once he proves his commitment and has a finished product to demo - he is in. BAsically he was loads above the "paid" editor - woohoo. I think editing would be his dream job - he's getting there. OF course if he makes money off this movie he might sink most of it into equipment, but that is okay. I Will still fight for a small piece for the e-fund, but he can re-invest most of it into equipment. Anyway, it is the kind of thing where there is a small chance this could be a BIG windfall, but it won't likely amount to much for the most part. But even if he makes $100 I Will be happy. HE was going to get 3% of sales proceeds and it looks like he might get closer to 10% with recent developments. Maybe more - selling it is on him and he is MOTIVATED. They originally wanted $1 mil. not counting on that at all. Now that's a windfall! LOL. But dh feels he could get a decent chunk too, and 10% ain't bad - so we'll see!!!