Gwen

For people who have moved often:

I will be moving in about 6 weeks to a city 3 hours away. I haven't packed a single thing yet! I have only moved one other time (6 yrs ago), and it was from my parent's into an apartment 2 miles away, so packing was more like numerous trips back and forth for a week, lol.

What rooms/items should I be packing now? Should I just declutter at this point? When it gets down to the wire, what is the easiest most proficient way to pack up a home? By the way, I have 3 small kids, if that matters to this question. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

I will be going to Phoenix in March and I'm looking for a restuarant that has great gourmet food and a romantic setting. No bar/grill/pub types please.

I'm not yet middle-class, but I am only 15 months away from finishing my degree which will bring in about $65,000 a year in my field starting out.

I have 3 kids, and I do everything to ensure they are brought up right. My issue is, everyone treats the kids and I decently until they find out I'm single and low-income. It's like all of a sudden I'm a leper! It's degrading when someone tells you your kids are so well-behaved, but then 10 minutes later look down their nose at them.

I go to school full-time AND I work. I'm not abusing the system, I'm using the system as a tool to brighten our future. I hate the "lazy" label low-income families are automatically assigned even though I'm away from home more than people who work a 9-5 job.