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: 09-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:33am
Because you disdain it and don't want it then it is wrong for all? My list could get pretty long. S.V.
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Registered: 09-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:36am
Yep. That's why I got up this early to serve him breakfast in bed. We just had to giggle as we were sitting there on our clean sheets having our meal. My hubby said "don't spill the grits in the bed" (you know in 'Bama no breakfast is complete w/out grits lol) "you wouldn't want to have to change the sheets again or us take an extra shower" lol Laughter is good! S.V.
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Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:40am
I guess you missed the part in my post about my sister-in-law waitressing & the comment I made? Yes, I waitressed a few years around the holidays just for fun & some extra dollars. I actually really liked it. I worked at a few different styles of restaurants from an IHOP to swanky place and even the in-between chain type ones. Of course, those ventures were short lived, usually just the few weeks between Thanksgiving & New Year's when they were hiring temp help. As I stated previously, my sister-in-law waitresses & has for a long time, she makes a nice chunk-of-change. S.V.
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Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:42am
lol
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 6:13am
Hear, hear.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 6:17am
Sure. So are dogs. Millions of dogs work as service animals, guard dogs, search and rescue and myriad other functions, without which our human society would be much worse off.

Even companion animals serve a higher purpose, as study after study has shown conclusively that pet owners have lower blood pressure, live longer, tend to be healthier, experience greatly reduced stress and recover quicker from surgery and illness than non-pet owners. Studies have shown conclusively that companions pets brought to nursing homes have an immediately and beneficial effect on the patients they visit. Alzheimer's and other non-responsible patients show a marked improvment in cognitive functions, are more alert and animated.

They may not *seem* to be doing much, but they are a huge factor in the quality of human lives, and isn't that what you've been saying is the hallmark of worthiness? The value they bring to others?

Seems to me that people who live like dogs and other pets ought to deserve the highest levels of respect, not the lowest.

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Fri, 10-03-2003 - 6:23am
Great googly moogly, Lukeslawmom, NOW look what you started. Do you have ANY idea how many "new" usernames will suddenly appear, all of them claiming to shower in excess of 3 times daily, changing their sheets at least hourly and all of whom have shared this post with (in no particular order) their Mom, Dh, best friends, milkman, postman, some woman they saw at a rest stop on their way home from the spa, and their pastor's wife's daughter's husband's cousin??????

;) (not to worry, you couldn't have known :)

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 6:25am
Oh, please, like you aren't reveling in the chance to continue talking about yourself, your life, your house, your possessions and your habits.

Hey, OTBM, has she described the tilework and special grout in her bathroom yet?

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Registered: 09-13-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 7:01am
Why would I go into detail abut grout & tilework? That would be pretty stupid on a debate board about sah/woh.

The whole conversation arose through the debate at hand. I didn't just start a thread talking about these things (and wouldn't do that).

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Registered: 07-21-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 7:37am
Nothing wrong with the service industry, hotel manager is an excellent job, just very atypical for someone with such a wealthy background. If they have the kind of money that affords fulltime, extended staff, and old money at that, they aren't running the hotel, they are OWNING the hotel and paying people to run it for them, with possibly a nice office and figurehead title. You don't see the Hilton sisters working the late shift, and they're in the business.

I know someone who owns the market in town, and they are raking it in, 2 homes one here one in Nantucket, both worth well over a million. I have no doubt that your family has money, they OWN the market, not just manage it. Big difference.

Yeah, sure, whatever, let's believe that it's all true. It certainly makes for a fun read, I'll say that.

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