Your post above made me tear up oscar.  It was so beautiful.  

{{{oscar & Tank }}}

Hubby told me he quit his job.  I don't really blame him.  He liked it but when he was hired the beginning of December he was getting 25-30 hrs. a week.  They weren't really open in Jan/Feb although he got a day here or there.  They told him it would pick up around March/April but he's still only getting one or two days and they're only 5  hour days.  The last two weeks he's only gotten one day/wk.  So like $50/wk.  I can see why he doesn't want to bother with it anymore.  I just wish they would  have been more honest about the hours he would get, he could have been looking for something closer all this time.  He says he's going to look for some kind of construction job since it's warmer. 
Speaking of warmer, we actually saw some snow flurries the last few days but now we've descended from the Berkshire Mts. and we have a whole week with temps in the 70s and very low chance of rain.  Yeah!

imo he should have been looking for something all along to go with it or replace it.  Sorry Wendy I just feel like you carry everything. 

I have three jobs now.  All pt, just nothing full time going and my volunteer  thing and I manage to work everything around.  The one job is min wage and only 5 -10hrs a week but it's something.  The other two are at least 20hrs a week each.

For dairy I pay attention to the expiration date. 
For dry goods, no not really.  Only if they taste stale do I throw them out. 
For medicine...I looked this one up and the longer past the expiration date the less potent it is.  I personally don't use it if it is 2 years or more past the expiration date.

Ditto on cans and dry goods for me as well.  On dairy I guess I'm far more lenient than you both.  I asked this because we can buy milk in cartons as well as bags with 3 one litre bags inside.  I don't think they do this In the States.  Then it slips into this milk jug.  Anyways I just use it period.  You know when milk has turned and I noticed the one bag I was finishing up was 15 days past the BBdate.  I was surprised, cause normally if I had an unopened bag and say the date on the side I'd just dump it.  I only use it in coffee or cooking, not to just drink and it was fine. Also sour cream, I keep using that as well as yogurt, I mean you know if it's gone off just looking at it, smell etc. I read an article about this once regarding how wasteful society was because of these dates.  Lol Canadians in particular pay pretty close attention to these.  I freeze a lot of stuff.  Buy the big bars of cheese put it thru my food processor and then freeze.  I find cheese nowadays starts going mouldy pdq. I even keep all my baking stuff and baked goods in the freezer.

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