I told my hubby the other day that I think I want to switch jobs with Barack Obama.

We're looking into refinancing our house to get a low enough payment that we might be able to replace my car. With all the driving back and forth to Oklahoma I expect in the next year to help my parents, I'd like a reliable car with significantly less than 137,000 miles on it. But part of the refi process is having a complete inside & outside appraisal. If we're to make the value of the house we need, the house needs to be perfect. Right now it's a cluttered mess. So I need to motivate my kids to help me get this house from cluttered disaster zone to immaculate in less than a week.

I think I'd rather straighten out the economic mess.