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Used H & R Block TaxCut for 05, 06 and 07, was audited for all 3 last year. There was no audit support like they claim....now what should I do? Sue them for my fees? I apparently owe over $5,000 to the IRS.

I just read in our local paper that Charter Communications has the worst rating nation wide. I've had nothing but problems with them since signing up. The billing is never right, the service is horrible and they are a monopoly in my area so switching isn't an option. Does anyone else have these problems and how do you fix them without going insane?

I have just gotten off the phone with Kayla Ayres Agent ID KA368D. Not only was she very matter of fact, but she had no problem in telling me that I was "stupid enough" for buying my teenage son (who is 16) a pre-paid cell phone that comes with no guarantees regarding when AT&T decides to de-activate the sim card. Perhaps I should explain.

In September, I purchased my "chatty Kathy" of a son a pre-paid cell phone for emergency purposes only. This way, no matter what, his father and I could reach him. To our surprise, he did great in using that phone for its intended purpose. Ten minutes lasted all the way up until the expiration date. Those minutes were due to expire on 12/9. So that day, I picked up a pre-paid card. He added the minutes, they were accepted, and then he texted me to let me know he'd put them in. Later that evening (it's still 12/9 mind you), AT&T de-activated the phone. I called and I was informed that I would now have to go and purchase another sim card because I waited too long to add new minutes. I asked why I was never told that and I was told that I should have been given it in a recording. I informed her that I had never heard this recording and was told that my son should have. I then asked to speak to a manager. After being put on hold for over six minutes, the manager never came. Instead, Ms. Ayres came back on and argued that we never added minutes. When I informed her of the date they were added, she put me on hold again. When she came back on, she acknowledged the new minutes but informed me that there was no guarantee on what time the de-activation will take place. It could be anytime within 24 hours of that expiration date. She also explained there was nothing she could do until I went out and purchased another sim card. I was outraged. I asked to know where does it explain this in the booklet that came with the phone and she became rather rude and told me that it doesn't have to and that it was my fault for being stupid enough to give a prepaid phone to a teenager.

Since this phone call, I have taken this up with our local "trouble shooting" segment of our local TV station. I have filed a complaint with the FCC, who does regulate Wireless Telecommunications and I will post a blog everywhere and anywhere I can find space until I get some sort of resolution to this. If anyone else has encountered this same sort of problem with AT&T, I suggest you do the same before this becomes the "norm" for them. Forcing a consumer to purchase additional products just to keep the products they purchased working as promised is against the law!

We have neighbors going through a divorce. There is a his child, two hers, and one of theirs. Stepmom moved out with the hers and theirs and left him with his. Because she claimed the kids couldn't get along. She then told this little girl, who's nine, that she just don't like her. We babysit this little girl in the early am and after school. Her siblings go to the same school, the boy is 9, the girl is 6. Everyday they are terrorizing this little girl, who is also 9. Calling her all sorts of names, hitting her, etc. My children have started to stick up for her. She is the sweetest most well mannered child I've ever seen. She never fights back, and it's tearing her apart. Her real mother lives in FL & dad has no money to send her there. Today these two beasts got physical with my two youngest, also 9 & 6 while they were sticking up for the little girl. I have older children, do I let them to end this with a little threat, do I take the high road and let kids be kids?

I've been married for 18 years. We have five great kids, a nice house, stable income, etc. Yet, lately I've gotten the feeling that this is all about him. I've been so busy being super mom, staying up late bartending and then doing homework during the day all the way up until last year when our youngest entered kindergarten. Now I'm back at work, and I'm still doing all the sacrificing when it comes to schedules, chores, bills and errands. On top of this I have a serious health condition that could kill me with too much stress (neck surgery related). The kids have been great helping out, but the hubby...not so much. He just went and signed up for two football leagues again this fall and hasn't touched the laundry in weeks. I'm not the arguing type and I've enabled him in much of his behavior, but it's time to stop. I've asked for help, but he's taken the "as little as I can to get by" approach. Any suggestions?

After having a multi-level cervical disc replacement they have now discovered arterial damage. They are not sure if the damage was caused during the surgery from clamping off the cartoid artery for too long, or if they are from these dibilitating new migraines. I'd like to know anyone who has had this or something similiar. I have right side weakness, last week I lost my hearing and I've been having speech difficulties from time to time. Prior to this, I was in excellent shape...even after four boys. Still in good shape, but health is failing and the outlook they gave me today was not good. I need more opinions and other things to try. I'm way too young for this.

We all know that God tests our strength and belief in him, but do you think that he tests our faith that we will do the right thing?

Today, my husband and I were on our way home from work. We see two people with car trouble and we turned off the highway to come under the over-pass and turn around to help. While there, we see a very dirty and distraught homeless woman. We both looked at each other and I said turn around for the homeless woman, the kids with car trouble probably had cell phones anyway. So we turned around and asked her if she needed help. In a hissing voice that just spewed evil, she said "what do you want?". We only wanted to help her. So we hesitantly drove off. As soon as we got home, I ran around like a crazy woman and put together a back pack full of food, a blanket and some toiletries and money and went in search of this woman. For the life of me, I could not find her. It's like she vanished into thin air.

I'm not the grouchy old lady at the end of the block. In fact, I have five children with an abundance of friends at our house at any given time. However, my husband and I work hard for the things we have, and like to keep them nice. Most of the children are respectful, but there are a handful that throw things in the yard (garbage), destroy things at random, come in with their toddler age brother and sisters for me to babysit, and just simply don't care. When you talk to the parents, you immediately see where they get that behavior from. What makes it harder is that these children come from poverty stricken households. How do I combat this without having them retaliate or consider it a race issue? It's truly not. It's about the respect of other's property. I should add that they ignore my neighbor's "No tresspassing signs", they climb the fence to get here, etc. It's a nightmare. What if one of them drowns in our pool while I'm at work?

I have a 20 yr old "bonus" child. I've raised her since she was five. We had a decent relationship, things were going really well and all of a sudden she sends an email spewing all sorts of hatred, that she doesn't believe in God (we are a very Christian family), that she was abused (which never happened), and she is trying to pit my husband and I against each other. I have done nothing but love this child as if she were my own since I got her, we've always had a good relationship and this came out of the blue. I love her dearly, but she has 4 younger brothers she is trying to negatively influence, even going as far as telling our 15 yr old to emancipate himself from us. This all happened this past weekend, prior to this she was our pride and joy. Now we aren't sure what to think or what to do. We try to talk to her, she screams profanity in the phone and won't listen. Her allegations are made up. What could this be and how do I handle it?

Have you ever noticed that the poor and lower middle class seem to be more giving and generous with their time and contributions to those less fortunate than the more well off social classes?

I'm curious to see if we actually put our money or time where our mouth is.

A day before thanksgiving I bailed my sister-in-law out of jail. I was promised that I would be paid back today. So I called him and told him I would be there to pick up my money, and got an excuse and told to call back later. After three hours of phone tag, I got angry, told them I was tired of the lies, tired of the games, I just want my money back. He got snippy with me, defended his wife, so I told them that I was through helping them out (this is a frequent thing with them) and that I will be calling his boss to find out when he's getting paid, so I can get my money back. It's a long family drama, they are horrible parents, running from CPS in three states, I'm their social worker for WI and on Friday, after all this happend, I turned over their case to my supervisor to assign someone else. I'm literally done. But I didn't stop there. In his last phone call to me (to tell another lie), I went on a tirade about his wife. Everything I've wanted to say, I finally said.

My husband's brother and wife are far from parent's of the year. As a social worker, I set up parenting classes, make my own daily visits, just to make sure the kids are fed and changed (they are 3 mos, and 2yrs). Last night I got a call at 2:30 in the AM to go and bail her out of jail for a domestic dispute. A neighbor called the police because the children were crying a long time. Her and her husband got into a physical argument. (her fault) Today, when they came for thanksgiving, not money being lent was mentioned, the issue of the children was never mentioned and she sat on her butt, as well as him, while I ran around like a chicken with my head cut off serving about 30 people. While I was cleaning up the mess, she not only talked about going shopping in the morning with her sister, but she also informed me that they were going to try having another child. Sarcastically, I said "don't you think you should learn to care 4 the ones you have first?" She got mad and she left.

Last December, I entered into a study to replace three bad discs in my neck with silicone ones and some bracket and eight screws. According to them, this was all suppose to fuse together and I'd be back to normal. Well that hasn't happened. I have huge air pockets around my screws, the symptoms I had prior to surgery have not only returned but intensified. I am on 800mg of Ibuprofen for the swelling of my hands, flexerall to try and relax the muscles that are freezing up, Valium to help me sleep (everything stops moving as if I'm paralyzed when I lay down) and Vicodin for the pain (which is a severe burning feeling down my arm and from the base of my neck to mid spine). The drugs are making me sick, the pain is limiting my lifestyle and I'm desperate for some other alternative. I am a mother of 5 who was extremely active, so depression is starting to set in as I watch my life slipping away from the sidelines since I can't do ANYTHING. I've done the physical therapy already.

I have a brother in law with poor credit and lack of a down payment. How would he go about obtaining a mortgage for a house that is worth way more than the seller is asking? He has a steady job (13 yrs), excellent rental history, etc. Is this possible for him to do?

I am picking up two new female kittens tommorrow morning. These kittens are in need of some names. I normally let our children name the pets, but the hamsters are Mario and Luigi, the bird is pickle poop becuase her poop looks like pickles (they say), the dog is named Sampson and out older cat Goliath. Even the fish have matching names (characters from Nemo). They've been putting their heads together all night and have come up with nothing. Please help with some suggestions.

Should let you know Thelma and Louise are out, as well as Lucy and Ethel....the kids don't know who they are.

My brother-in-law and his wife just delivered baby number 2. They haven't figured out how to take care of baby #1 yet. Social services is chasing them in three states, they live in a world of complete filth. The only times my nephews get a bath is when they come to my house. We even buy their diapers. I went there yesterday and there was garbage everywhere, the baby was in a dirty diaper and the older one had trashed the house (so they claim). It's been this way since baby #1 except my hubby and I took care of him until they ran from Social Services. I want to call, but I know if I do, I won't see my nephews because they will run again. I've tried to teach proper parenting skills to both of them, even showed them how to bath and feed the children, but once I"m gone, nobody does it and the kids are neglected. I need some serious help in deciding what to do. I already have 5 of my own and can't afford 2 more, but my heart says I'll find a way and they'd be better off with us.

In my yahoo email, I accidently marked something as spam that wasn't spam, how do I unmark it so I can continue to receive these emails?

Why is it, when you answer someone's question to the best of your ability, someone else, who obviously didn't like your answer, and didn't even ask the question, feels the need to contact you with a nasty message? I mean it's not their situation in the first place, why would they do that? Is this a normal thing? Because there are times I don't agree with some else's advice, but I read it and move on, it's not for me to judge....or is it? I've gotten a nasty email this afternoon and although I found it amusing, it struck me as an odd way for this individual to deal with what I wrote. He wasn't the one asking the question, just felt the need to tell me off?

He's 35 and she's 20 going on 12. They are both from traumatic childhoods, he was molested in foster homes, and she never got passed the 8th grade. They had one son who passed away playing outside in the street when he was only 2. They have another son who just turned two and she's due to give birth at the end of this month. When they have the babies, they drop them off like dirty laundry to my house to take care of until someone calls social services and they leave the state. They are running from three states right now. I love my nephew dearly, but they aren't taking care of him. And recently my brother in law told me that his wife no longer wants to be a mom. We have five children, our oldest daughter is grown and we have four boys already to care for. However, I've been struggling with the idea of taking in my nephew and the new baby. They would, without a doubt be better off. My husband has a difference of opinion on this and we are butting heads. Help!