Sneaking purchases...

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sneaking purchases...
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Thu, 03-25-2004 - 11:10am

I was reading another board about sneaking purchases past their husband's. I know I use to sneak before we started doing our finances together. I would actually come home during lunch to get the mail or unload packages. I was pitiful. Even now, I will bring things in the house and wince thinking how upset Devin would be with me.


So, have you ever hid purchases or not told your DH the whole picture of your finances? We use to horrible fights about finances. I would do the weekly budget and e-mail him it. We would discuss it and everything was fine. Then, he would tell me two days later that he was doing a marathon that cost $75.00. I had to actually ask him before we did the budget-Do you have any marathons? Do you need shoes? Do you have any equipment you need? Can you tell I

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Sun, 04-04-2004 - 12:36am
Oh my gosh, I am so sorry that happened to your kids! :( Glad they are now home with you and safer than they were.
Kerry with Campbell Elizabeth 11.03.06 and Benjamin Brady 12.10.03
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Sun, 04-04-2004 - 4:39am
ROFL.....Right. Of course. Never mind her post clearly says otherwise. In LuvthebabesLand, English grammar rules must change to support your argument, no matter how clearly a posts says something different than what you say it does.

that's why comparing the ROLE of a teacher in a child's life to the ROLE of a janitor in the child's life is an insult to janitors. That's why posts that CLEARLY state someone seeks DCP who love their kids really means that NO ONE EVER seeks a DCP who will love their kids.

What. Ever.

P.S. any points you might have thought you gained by suggesting I spend too much time here are thoroughly countered by:

1) your lack of originality--every troll in the world plays variations on the "You spend all day online" game the second they run out of anything valid to argue.

2) your own time spent here--compare the numbers of posts. You've got me beat hands down in volume. Are you only counting the number of your posts that actually address the topic factually? Okay, there you have a point.....I have way more posts that address the TOPIC (rather than the person) than you do.

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Sun, 04-04-2004 - 4:45am
No, you're not "just quoting" me; you are applying meaning to my quote that can only be valid when whole sections of the quote are ignored. That's called misinterpretation. And I'm not the only poster who has called you on it.
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Sun, 04-04-2004 - 7:20am
LOL, not just on the slopes, we're to get 3-6" snowfall in our yard today. Crocuses are blooming here but that's about it. The grass stays bright green all year in a snowy year like this one has been, because it's so blanketed and the snow acts as fertilizer. I keep a calendar for when things bloom around here, and last year, it was April 25 for the daffodils, pears and forsythia, wouldn't anticipate earlier this year, that's for sure.
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Sun, 04-04-2004 - 7:32am
Thanks so much for sharing.
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Sun, 04-04-2004 - 7:33am
Thanks so much for sharing.
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Sun, 04-04-2004 - 7:47am
But that's only relevant if luvthebabes has been told SHE should use dc, and that simply HAS NOT happened. What's happening here is SHE, in her self-proclaimed position of ignorance, has claimed *our* (not HERS, not YOURs, but OUR) DCPs "can't possibly love" our children, BECAUSE they are being paid to provide childcare. she's not making a stand for her own self; she can't because not a single person on this board has suggested SHE use daycare.

But she IS claiming to know the WOHMs' minds, their daycare providers, their motivations and many other things, that she has NO experience with, NO insight into, NO knowledge of and is by her ow claim completely ignorant of. I mean, I realize you have very emotionally negative feelings about daycare, but surely tthat hasn't blinded you so far to see the blatant fallacy of her claims about US based on NO experience?

I'm sorry your dd was attacked at daycare, but in the context of this thread, it's completely irrelevant to luvthebabes' arguments. Although she'll likely claim otherwise, this has never been her argument in this debate. She's not defending against people saaying SHE should use daycare; she's attacking total strangers and claiming to know more about their providers than they do. Sorry, but your dd's attack doesn't justify or substantiate her in any way.

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Sun, 04-04-2004 - 8:06am
Where do you suppose those European counties GOT those laws making spanking illegal? Wal-Mart? Aliens from outer space? Laws are passed by magical genies??? how telling that you think the laws come first and then the attitudes.....
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Sun, 04-04-2004 - 8:19am

And I support and accept that.

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Sun, 04-04-2004 - 8:22am
Your claim is then even more off base.

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