What have you given up?

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-17-2007
What have you given up?
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Mon, 06-30-2008 - 10:48am
What have you "given up" in order to have and parent children?

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Registered: 11-22-2000
Sat, 07-05-2008 - 1:04pm

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iVillage Member
Registered: 07-17-2007
Sat, 07-05-2008 - 1:05pm

You said: "I don't think that anyone considers a clean house and daily veggie consumption to be obsessively high standards. "

I said, "It all depends on ones definition of clean."

IME and IMO, a person with OCD tendencies defines "clean" differently than I do. For example, my BIL has to empty the trash at least once a day from all the trash receptacles in the house. Even if there are only one or two things in them. His definition of "clean" in this case is that NONE of the trash containers have any trash. My definition is if they are not flowing over. Plus, it adds to quite a bit of waste. They use 10-14 tall kitchen trash bags a week. We use 2.

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Sat, 07-05-2008 - 1:13pm
I don't get the separate savings account for different things, either. We have one savings account that is linked to my checking account, where I keep a thousand dollars just so I don't have to pay a monthly fee for the checking account. Then we have investments for retirement and the kids' education, but that is only separate for the tax issues. Then we have our big "saving account" where the interest and dividends from our investments get deposited monthly and quarterly and we have money deducted every month from out paychecks into that account, which pays slightly higher interest than the credit union where I have my checking account. We also have a yearly budget and pay our big recurring bills (kids' tuition, quarterly tax estimates, stuff like that out of the savings account) and we also pay big, budgeted or unexpected one-time bills (landscaper, new air conditioning unit) out of the savings account. When the savings account gets above a certain amount, we will invest the money in something longer-term and hopefully with a higher return. It would drive me crazy keeping tabs on three or four or five smaller savings accounts plus I imagine the smaller balances would not have as big a return.
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-05-2007
Sat, 07-05-2008 - 1:14pm

Your experience is VERY different from mine.


My kids exclusively bfed for about 7mo, then had homemade babyfood (usually a single food of what the rest of the family was eating) AND bfed until they had enough teeth to actually chew their food (and/or had been introduced to many new foods), then went to eating soft table foods and continued to bf for another several months.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-04-1997
Sat, 07-05-2008 - 1:19pm
Most of my friends weaned their babies, or their babies weaned themselves, somewhere between one and two years old. I went over two years with one of mine and it was a little lonely.
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Registered: 04-22-2005
Sat, 07-05-2008 - 1:20pm

Ah, okay. I see what you mean. Yes, that's very true.

So I guess what I was trying to say is that I don't consider it obsessive to want to keep one's home free of flies and unwanted growth, lol.





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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2003
Sat, 07-05-2008 - 1:45pm
Yep. What really bugs me are those "Gerber Graduates" for toddlers and older. Overpriced, overprocessed junk. People feed their kids bland, tasteless crap for years, then wonder why their kids are picky eaters. And I do think that is what baby food marketers are making people believe they are supposed to do.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Sat, 07-05-2008 - 2:02pm
ITA, and they look gross too, like TV dinners for toddlers.
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Registered: 01-07-2007
Sat, 07-05-2008 - 2:14pm
Lol

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Registered: 09-05-2007
Sat, 07-05-2008 - 2:58pm
Both of mine self weaned. One of them just quit cold turkey, and wanted regular table food all of the time. That was hard on me physically, because my body didn't get a chance to adjust. The second self weaned gradually. I don't think that I could have nursed to 2 or 3 yrs old if I wanted to, the kids didn't want to.

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