Buying the toys on credit isn't a budget issue to him. It's a 'feel good now' issue. Once that outlet is denied, he will move to 'feel good' elsewhere. It may be in smaller doses in the Sears hardware department, or at Lowe's. Adding those debts up is crushing.
No, he will not change...
We have 4 pigs (well, we're eating one, does he count?) and the fact that you could
1. get in there and grab a pig without being squished and carried off to the hospital,
2. make one stay still long enough to actually get the tape around it's waist, and
3. avoid being eaten by them,
tells me...
Hypothyroidism also creates muscle pain, joint pain, nerve pain, and fibromyalgia. I take Armour thyroid, a natural product, made from a pig's thyroid gland. It costs $9 a month with my insurance, or $11 out of pocket.
If you also have brain fog, the inability to concentrate or understand...
I have found that when the water softener is out of salt or not working, there ain't nothin' in the world that will get my once-whites white once again. Bleach won't do it, vinegar won't do it, extra soap won't do it... they just get greyer and greyer.
That is an exceptional idea! But I would throw in sawdust, too. I would wear a new tire/bacon/sawdust scent.
But then I'd have even MORE men swooning at my very presence, and you know how tiresome that can get. Maybe I'll stick with my woodsmoke/Valvoline/gun lube scent.
20 wonderful hens, 3 roosters, 7 pullets, and 5 worthless bantams for the kids to hold and squeeze and step on.
3 pigs
1 Brangus steer in the pen, and 1 at the butcher
2 jersey heifers
2 very irritating American Blackbelly Sheep
and
2 doggies