Staying at home a choice??
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Staying at home a choice??
| 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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Not to mention the violation of privacy laws by discussing this sort of thing with others....
LOL! You're talking to the woman whose furniture (couch, love seat, table) came from my ex-husband's aunt for FREE. I did, however, have to pay $60 for the u-haul truck and to treat the "movers" (dh's step-sons) to dinner.
We put much of our honeymoon trip on credit cards as we didn't want to carry around too much cash. Much of it has already been paid back.
I can't see making ANY $4000 expenditure in the near future, however if we needed to replace any of our appliances ($500-$1500) yes, I would put it on a credit card.
Carole
I put away money each week for maintenance for car maintenance. My dh's car repairs went over what we had so I put it on the cc and pay it off monthly from the maintenance money set aside.
A way back I put down my entire budget. We are now able to save some money each week while paying the cc's and all our other bills.
FYI -- many car repair shops have a very limited amount of loaner cars -- so there may not be one available.
Carole
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