Is the SAHM the new status symbol?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
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Tue, 09-23-2003 - 10:36pm
In the 70's and 80's women fought to get into the workforce (the whole Ms. magazine generation)...and then the tide turned in the late 1990's when more women started to stay home by choice. Now, it seems like being a SAHM is a status symbol....and superior to being a working mom.

Kat

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Registered: 05-28-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 5:55pm
see post 731
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Registered: 09-01-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 5:55pm
Ah, both. Whichever works for that day. I'll happy carry it over to the store for him. Or he will come home to get it. I don't pack his lunch. If it is a day like that, he can run over to the deli & bakery and get his meal and dessert. That is a handy thing.

I don't mind at all. Besides. He is all too happy to wake up and scramble those eggs for me.

I just traded in my avalon for a new minivan. After Dh having one the last two rounds, I just had to have one of my own (actually he insisted so he could keep the keys to himself) lol Stetch pants? Eeeewwww!

S.V.

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Registered: 08-19-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 5:56pm
Speak for yourself woman! I personally like nothing more then to hock a big loogey at them.

(others: please note sarcasm before getting up in arms)

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Registered: 09-01-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 5:56pm
Ugh! Glad I think so differently S.V.
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Registered: 09-01-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 5:58pm
Love when hubby cooks. That is why I got to come back to the computer. He's brewing up something in yonder. S.V.
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Registered: 05-28-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 5:58pm
What's wrong with stretch pants? You're talking about leggings? I wear those and I WOH! LOL!
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Registered: 03-25-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 5:58pm
Or a sad commentary on those who wouldn't feel secure w/out a job.
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Registered: 09-01-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 6:00pm
Ugh, no way. I have to have that morning shower. It just gets me going. Plus, I'd have to wash my hair anyway so I might as well jump in the shower than do that in the sink. After a long day, before I call it a night, yes, gotta have that shower (or bubble bath, sometimes I subsitute for shower). My dh was laughing when I was reading these shower posts to him and the people's thoughts. He said "imagine, people care we take 2 showers a day. Imagine what they think when we take more" lol

As for our sheets. Change twice wkly when the housekeeper comes. Towels. I use the same towel for 2 days, then change.

S.V.

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Registered: 09-01-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 6:02pm
ITA S.V.
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Registered: 03-25-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 6:02pm
I don't have a nanny or a cook or anything. I guess that makes you much shallower than I.

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