A few ?s for those SAHM's
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A few ?s for those SAHM's
| Thu, 06-25-2009 - 10:08am |
I'm considering staying at home but have a few questions for those of you that do.
Approximately how much does your significant other make that enables you to stay home?
Can it be done with only
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You need to sit down and make two columns- one working and one staying home and put in all the numbers to see. No one can tell you exactly if you can afford to stay at home unless they know exactly where all your money is going and your lifestyle.
Start crunching the numbers.
Trish
i don't know.
are you speaking from personal experience or outside?
curious.
i think "deprived" means different things to different ppl.
Personal experience. After my parents divorced, there were some very hard years.
And even this week. I was on a road trip with two teens who come from a low income situation. They spoke of things like how they sometimes have to go without lunch at the end of the month in the summer because there isn't any free lunch at home like there is at school.
And no matter how you romanticize it, being hungry is being deprived. Having your teeth hurt because your parents can't afford dental care is being deprived. Not being able to go to a friend's quincenaria (or however it's spelled) because your parents can't afford a dress or a present and pretending you didn't want to go anyway may not be being deprived, but it's something I wouldn't want any child to have to endure -- but kids do.
Hunger is real, it's not a state of mind.
PumpkinAngel
Are you seriously denying that the cost of living varies among the states in the United States?
Yes, I have lived in Lincoln and a Boston suburb.
Why would you have needed to live in both places?
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