SAH/WOH - Why?
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SAH/WOH - Why?
| Mon, 02-20-2006 - 7:41am |
I am sure this has been done before but I was wondering this in light of recent posts lately.
Why did you decide to sah/woh?
Was it a choice or something expected of you?
Was your plan to sah/woh though out or impulsive? Long-term or short-term?

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Edited 3/13/2006 2:38 pm ET by charlesmama1
"Time to drill in Alaska"
Wow, the environment certainly isn't top on your list, huh?
Robin
That isn't the issue. The issue is that people will not give up their driving habits. The only way to reduce driving is to price gas so high that no one can really afford it. Then people will be homeless and poverty stricten. If our society was willing to ease up on driving things might be different. I just don't see that happening. I thought this article was interesting on this issue. Makes you wonder both ways what to do? I wonder (and I will research) really how much of a factor it will be on the environment when the area there is 19 million acres and they want to drill on 2,000 acres. I know the reduction seems small at 3% but a million barrels a day is significant.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21695-2005Mar9.html
Edited 3/13/2006 3:33 pm ET by snoopyme
Oh, I see. So when you said, "Really? That is about the most amazing thing I think I have read in a while. All that carpooling and caring for an elderly parent and only 7K miles?", that was not intended to express disbelief. Whereas when I respond by pointing out that you don't understand that carpooling *reduces* the amount of driving one does, I'm making a personal attack? And pointing out that your reading comprehension is poor when you ask me what kind of car my dh drives when I've already told you is a personal attack?
You poor, poor thing.
"No I didn't. Again you are trying your best to spin my words to prove some crazy POV. I said when I build homes I don't CLEAR lots. That in itself is a great way to save my *pocketbook* a bunch of money. I have to pay a survey team to come out and assess trees. I have to find where the roots lie, and know if they will be safe to leave up before putting in the footing on a home. We have to know where these roots lay so that we don't either a) damage the root and damage the tree, because it will die b) also make sure it will not damage a well, or the foundation. When I have the trees tagged our Tree Service guys come in and they have to log the trees and leave the ones tagged. All of this is quite expensive. I could just pay them a flat fee to bulldoze the lot. If the homeowners do not want certain trees I have left then they pay additional money."
So you don't pass on these costs to the homeowner? They come out of *your* pocket?
I think it's nice that you have donated used cabinets to Habitat for Humanity. But if you are building homes, how is it that there are already cabinets there? Are you scraping off the houses that were there to build new ones?
So you built custom homes. When you say they're not small, what do you mean? How big are they? You mentioned people building 5,000 sf homes for 3 people to live in. Is that what you're talking about?
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