Many people see owning a home as a dream come true, but it can sometimes feel like a nightmare due to the challenges of finding the perfect location and affording down payments and mortgages. Some homeowners even end up selling their homes to escape the burden of mortgage payments. Let’s meet Precious Price, a woman who found a creative way to get out of her mortgage bind. Instead of giving in to the pressures of homeownership, she transformed her backyard shed into a charming little house. And she did it

A grandma posted a question on Reddit, asking for advice on a tough situation. After being a stay-at-home mom for four years, the grandma explained that she turned down her daughter-in-law’s request to watch her grandkids for a week while she went back to work. The daughter-in-law had struggled to find daycare and finally got a job, but the daycare placement for her two- and four-year-old kids was delayed. She asked her mother-in-law to help out temporarily. The grandma declined, citing her daughter-in-law’s strict guidelines for taking care of the

My son Alex has been dressing up in new clothes that I didn’t buy for him, and I’ve just now started to notice this. Yesterday, I saw a fresh set of headphones hanging around his neck. “Dear, where did you get those headphones?” I asked while preparing breakfast. “From Dad,” he texted back, yelling from the other room. “And the new clothes?” I continued. “Um,” he murmured. “Yeah, those too.” It made sense since I was divorced from Alex’s father, Ian, and both of us were always giving Alex new