Staying at home a choice??

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Registered: 04-29-2007
Staying at home a choice??
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Sun, 04-29-2007 - 6:46am

The author of this article thinks most mothers go to work because they want to, not because they have to.

"Most parents from two-parent families today do have a choice when it comes to parental care. They can try and talk themselves into believing they don't, but it really boils down to priorities."

http://backofthebook.ca/living/2007/03/part-time-ophanages-part-2-job-only.html

Does anyone (other than her) really believe this? I don't know of anyone among my friends who works who wouldn't rather be staying at home with their children. But they don't have the choice!

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Registered: 07-26-2006
Tue, 05-15-2007 - 7:54am
I am not a fan of the Pergo. It tends to warp and roll. I really love the Armstrong floors. With 2 Golden Retrievers it holds up very well. Real hardwoods are lovely just a PITA when it comes time to sand and restain.
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Tue, 05-15-2007 - 8:12am
I am currently taking a poll about toilet seats and carpets on another board so I will let everyone know-lol!
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Tue, 05-15-2007 - 8:15am
Do you have boys? They are extremely rough when they play. They run their cars and trucks all over the floor. I don't want my living room, the first room people walk into and the only room you can sit in, to be destroyed.
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Tue, 05-15-2007 - 8:16am
Sorry but I must be too young. I have NO clue of these names-lol! Sorry.
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Tue, 05-15-2007 - 8:18am
You can figure out anyway you would like but that is not going to stop me from doing the 0% deals AND paying off my cc's. My son will need a bed after the couch and I will do the same deal with that furniture. They also do carpet like that, so I might do that down the road. While I have new appliances, I would do the same if I needed something.
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Tue, 05-15-2007 - 8:21am

Well my poll so far is, even though I know no one cares-lol!:

Toilet
Yes-38
No-11

Carpet
Tie at 18

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Registered: 03-03-2007
Tue, 05-15-2007 - 8:21am

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Well, that is a little snobbish and definitely not common sense. Like MM, I went to grad school so I could have a better life and earn more money. So even in my 20s in grad school, I couldn't afford a new mattress but I could afford rent - entirely through loans from kindly taxpayers like yourself. I guy I went to grad school with lived out of his car his final year. He could probably buy and sell me right about now!

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Registered: 03-03-2007
Tue, 05-15-2007 - 8:26am
Living in a trailer would have been a slice of heaven compared to my grad school accomodations! I'm not trying to out-pauper you. But now that I can afford better than a third of a 1-bedroom apartment (shared with 2 other women!), I don't begrudge someone like Mbanc the preference for a new mattress over a who-knows-what-I-was-sleeping-on mattress with new mattress pad cover. That life is no longer palatable to me.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 05-15-2007 - 8:28am
It was a Harry Potter reference. Mrs Dursley is harry's Aunt and she has a "surgically clean" house with nothing out of order. Mrs. Weasley has a house where all sorts of things happen-books are lying around, people are free to expore their imaginations.....


Edited 5/15/2007 9:04 am ET by janetlynn_64
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 05-15-2007 - 8:54am
Okay, but you could be getting out of existing debt faster.

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