The prices of things have gotten so bad that we have to keep taking from our savings account just to make ends meat and sometimes there is nothing there to take. My DH thought I was just wasting the money so I started making him go grocery shopping with me, now he doesn't complain. I basically wear rags so my kids don't have to look bad when they go to school. My avatar is a recent pic of the family that was done for free by some photography college students at murray state. They made me cry when they did this for us. At tax time we feel rich an buy what we need, thats when I buy my fabric too. But I can't complain too much cause we have a roof over our heads and we have each other. Things could be a lot worse.