Category Archives: Advice Please

Announcing Changes; Requesting Feedback

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 8, 2008
Happy Tues­day, everyone. I’ve spent the past few weeks pon­der­ing the role of this blog in my life and the direc­tion I want to take it and whether I want to even take it in any direc­tion at all. I’ve come to a few con­clu­sions but I still have unan­swered questions/uncertain feel­ings too.  I’ve decided to move ahead [...]
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Buying Gifts: Equal Number or Equal Value?

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 22, 2007
I had an inter­est­ing con­ver­sa­tion with the clerk at Kohl’s today. While con­duct­ing the trans­ac­tion, I men­tioned that I had to guess as to how much to put on the gift card because I couldn’t remem­ber how much I’d already spent on this par­tic­u­lar grandchild. As I heard myself say this, it occurred to me how much [...]
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Advice Please — To Insure or Not To Insure

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 29, 2007
Again, I’ve got a puz­zling finan­cial ques­tion and I’m turn­ing to my read­ers for help. To insure or not to insure, that is the question.… Per­haps you’ve read my Intro­duc­ing The Cast of Play­ers post or all of my About Me post­ings and already have a bead on my finan­cial and health sit­u­a­tion.  If not, here it is in [...]
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Shopping for PJ’s — How Hard Can It Be?

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 18, 2007
My youngest sis­ter has an upcom­ing birth­day.  I called her the other day and asked if there were any­thing spe­cific she wanted.  She listed two dif­fer­ent CD titles that she’d like to have and then men­tioned that she’d also love to have a new pair of pajamas. It’s pos­si­ble that my sis­ter men­tioned the PJ’s as [...]
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Reaching Out to my Readers for Advice

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 12, 2007
I got such great feed­back on my bas­ket­ball shoe dilemma that I’m turn­ing to my read­ers with another puzzle. The Son takes weekly cello lessons. His teacher is a young man who recently com­pleted his grad­u­ate degree in music per­for­mance. He’s ter­rific — not just in gen­eral as a music teacher but also in that he’s [...]
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