there is none in my savings account, i don't have one. XD

i have $20 in a savings account that it all mine. and $7 in my paypal XD

I have been slowly leeching my accrued vacation and severance pay from when my good job was shut down last year and everyone got laid off. But that is getting really close to gone. After that, I'm doomed.

Kad: you will figure something out!

With any luck, I can survive either until tax refunds come back around, or until I can succeed in getting another job. Whichever happens first.

Thanks.
*hugs everyone*
Things will get better eventually. We're supposed to be getting a Hobby Lobby in soon and I have retail experience...and I might like working around pretty craft supplies more than the grocery industry...
*crosses fingers*
And also PetSmart will be opening up a store in the same area...and I love animals...so maybe that would be okay too if I can get a job there...

Those would be two great places to work, especially Hobby Lobby. I've never been in one of those I'm sure its like A.C. Moore, Michael's.
-hugs- you will get a good job in one of those places.

I have been told it's like Michaels on steroids...but have never been in one yet either. But I love arts and crafts stuff, so it would be a cool place to work.

my main job started out M-F, 9-5. now it's Mon-Thurs, 9-3.... it's why i have a second job Fri-Sun. between both jobs, it's barely 40 hours. hubby would work a lot of overtime whenever it was offered.... we have crazy credit card bills, and the daughters are 15 and 19, so we used the cards quite a bit in the past.

recently hubby got a promotion (after 10 years) and a nice pay raise. and we got a home equity loan to help consolidate some of the credit cards.

we don't really have much extra money for splurges (hubby goes go-karting and that's where a lot of the charges on the credit cards came from (and a whole 'nother long story, too!)) and things like vacations, but we manage. it was very tight for a while this past summer, and i'm glad we're working our way out of it. the credit card still gets pushed to its limit some months though.

edit: my Fri-Sun job is at a Michaels! and i teach the crochet classes when people sign up... i have three students on the 7th actually!

Best of luck kad *huggles*

Trystan: That sounds like a pretty cool job! I'm really bad at teaching stuff, but it would be cool to have a job like that!

Monbon: *hugcling* Thanks. Things will get better soon. They just have to!

Kaderin - the job is pretty cool. it's the customers when i'm on the registers that drive me nuts. XD

i mean, i guess i'm good at teaching, i haven't had any repeat students, but i'd like to think they've learned what i teach 'em

Yeah, that's always a problem with retail. But I can deal with customers if I have to. And I think at least having the common ground of crafting, it will be easier to help them than being a grocery cashier.

this is very true, Kaderin! =D

Plus...I get daily access to pretty yarns and other stuff! I will just have to resist the urge to buy everything!

Michael's is my favorite craft store.
So badly that I stay out of it as much as I can, I have a room full craft stuff. All kinds of craft stuff. I love paper and beads and I don't need any more, but I can't stay completely away!

Yarn is my major addiction currenly. My yarn collection has gotten so large that, for now, I am not allowing myself to buy any new yarns unless I really need it for a specific pattern...
And since I picked up on chainmaille recently, I have a desire to buy pretty colored jump rings too.

when i first started there (fall of 2011) i made the 'mistake' of asking one of the 'front-end managers' (Michael's has since gone through a re-org) for some advice on starting to learn to crochet.... and the rest is history.

also, yarn. i like one of the yarns they distribute (Impeccable) to use for my amigurumis. =)

weirdly enough though, JoAnn's is my first choice of yarn stores if i'm looking for yarn for a shawl. or a blanket - i love their blanket yarn color choices.

my Michael's is next door to an AC Moore, and is in shopping center across the (big) street from a JoAnn's. XD

There is a JoAnn's in my town, there is a Michaels in South Burlington, and an A.C. Moore in Williston, Vermont. The JoAnn's near me is so small tho. I went to a JoAnn's in Florida and I could not believe how big it was.

Even the little JoAnn's here has an amazing yarn selection.

We only have one each of Michaels and JoAnne's where I live. Michaels here has better prices and better yarn selection. But once in a great while JoAnnes will have a color that I can't find anywhere else.

i also can not go to michaels ever. . .

when i do i spend all my money.

It is a wonderful, heavenly place. Thankfully I have decent will-power and can avoid buying stuff sometimes.

A.C. Moore is another craft store. They all have the same stuff basically.

i just popped on to their website and on the page where you can select a location, their drop-down box has an option for every state. so, i'd say they're a pretty sizable company

i... don't know. maybe they're not in your part of the state

Oh yeah they are BIG.
Crafting is big business, I have never been to a Hobby Lobby though.

I've never heard of A.C. Moore, but context and conversation led me to the assumption that it was a craft store.

Yes, it is not my favorite place. Especially the one here is not very big.

there's a Hobby Lobby about 20 minutes from me. i went there once, nothing to write home about. i don't plan on going again, especially since in my shopping center along with the AC Moore and my Michael's, there's a Home Goods too. XD

i've never heard of it either and i buy crafty stuff regularly XD

Yeah. You've got everything you need in one convenient area.
I'm kind of hoping Hobby Lobby stocks more of the things I can only get online right now...specifically colored jump rings for chainmaille/jewelry and stuffed animal eyes.

animal eyes - do you use safety eyes? you can get them on etsy. i have a shop favorited, but i've never bought from them yet

Yeah. I use safety eyes. I can get them from a site for cheap...between like 40 cents to $1 per pair depending on size and style. I just hate having to pay shipping.

a lot of countries do not charge for shipping depending on your locale as long as you can stand the wait XD

i get them at JoAnn's (they're the same price at AC Moore, but JoAnn's has the size i use) for like $2.49 for 4 pairs... but i wait until there's a 55% off or 60% off coupon. =)

I like the site I go through. They have fantastic variety for what I want and the shipping isn't actually terrible. But if a store in town carried the right kind/size of safety eyes, I'd probably buy more frequently from the store instead of online.

Lucky, trystan! The JoAnnes and Michaels stores here don't carry safety eyes. Or any other kinds.