* I still have no clue of most (ok, almost all) of what is being discussed in this mailing list
Me neither; don't let that worry you. I'd advise you to ignore threads about difficult issues -- a lot of stuff discussed here is rare borderline cases that are mostly of interest to implementors, and not you and me. :-)
I agree! Just focus on a goal, like understanding "anonymous functions", recursion, type classes or the IO monad. Since you mention you do not have money, let me make sure you know that knowing Haskell has approximately zero value in today's job market because Haskell so far has been taken up by very few employers. I'd venture that most employers of programmers have not yet even heard of Haskell. So, it's not a resume-builder like knowing C or Java or Perl or SQL is. (Of course if you are a student learning it for class or an employer or future employer *told* you to learn Haskell, then that's different.)