I would make sure that you lock down your and your husband's credit. I would check creditsesame.com and creditkarma.com to check out your credit file. This woman is sounds like she will go to extremes to get money. Source: over 2 years ago

Shut down your credit with all three bureaus. You can get free credit reports and views at creditsesame.com and creditkarma.com. If you think that reporting your nmother to the SS administration would get you thrown out, I would wait until you can escape. Source: over 2 years ago

Have your friend scour clearance sections at electronic stores or surplus sites like woot.com to find something in their budget. Source: 6 months ago

Don't forget to check woot.com (amazon subsidiary) Same money as the new-old MacBook Air but much better but refurbed/returned/open box machines. Source: 6 months ago

Best deal around is when woot.com has PW3 refurbs for $25 (plus tax and ship). Keep an eye out. PW3 is darned good, a benchmark Kindle. Source: 11 months ago

I got a hover-1 alpha for $200 on woot.com when they had them for sale (now around $260 refurb on amazon). Range is listed as around 12mi, top speed 18mph. it's rated for 265lbs. Source: 11 months ago

I had bought a PW3 refurb from woot.com, and it arrived with no ads. My buddy bought another, and it did have ads. We got them removed, since he reasonably expected the refurb to be ad free. Source: 11 months ago