What kind of errands....

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Registered: 08-27-2005
What kind of errands....
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Wed, 08-31-2005 - 1:41pm

Do you run on a daily basis? Weekly basis? Monthly basis?

I've often heard people say that they need a lot of time during the week to run errands and that those errands would otherwise take up their evenings and weekends if they had to WOH ft. It made me curious because I just don't seem to have many errands to run at all. Are we just lazy :-)?

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Registered: 12-29-2004
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 1:00pm
That's what my L.V. friends have, a guest exemption they apply for. Maybe they can leave a car out for a night or two, but if it's on a regular basis, that's a violation. But with these people it's even worse than having to park in the driveway. They can't even do that; the cars all have to be in the garage. No using the garage just for bikes, strollers, lawn stuff and patio furniture.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 1:01pm

"The joy of playing is directly related to the goal of winning."


No, it is not.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 01-05-2005
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 1:05pm

No student loans? No car payments? No rent? No much lower income? How nice for you. How about all your friends, were they in the same situation?

I have no idea how you ever found trying to schedule things with other people, when you had no control over their work situation, was easier than scheduling things with your young children, over whom you have aboslute control.

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-29-2004
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 1:11pm
Wake up, PA! Any kid who doesn't go all out for competitive sports is a loser!
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-16-2005
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 1:13pm
As I said, to refresh your recollection, as you said you didn't remember ever having said anything about it.
iVillage Member
Registered: 01-05-2005
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 1:14pm
You are pretty much supporting my position with those further details.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 1:15pm
Ooohhh more of that competitive lifestyle you claimed your kids didn't have. I'm not entirely sure why you are sticking to the odd claim that your kids don't have a competitive lifestyle (in a different post). It seems that you are rather proud that they do and would force it on them if they didn't do it voluntarily.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 1:18pm
Shall I quote you from another post? "The joy of playing is directly related to the goal of winning." Your kids do have a competitive lifestyle and you wouldn't have it any other way. In fact, I'm puzzled why you are not championing it here when you champion it in the other posts. In the other posts you sound positively proud of their competitive lifestyle. Why distance yourslef from that in these couple of posts?
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Registered: 03-27-2000
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 1:19pm

Really? My kids don't necessarily know the term "organized sport" but they certainly know what sports are. My kids, at ages 4 and 6, WANT to play sports (and currently play "organized soccer"). And my 4 y/o ds, is dying to play baseball, but how can that be since he has had no experience IYO? Perhaps b/c he has been going to baseball games for a few years (as well as well as football games), has watched soccer on tv and has attended dh's adult soccer league games since he was a baby. Are you saying that 4-6 y/os have never seen an organized sport being played before?

Your generalizations crack me up. Let me be the judge of what my kids have "experienced" since you haven't a clue about them.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 1:24pm
This is the advantage of having kids late in life and having friends who are the same. I didn't have dd till I was 37 so in fact I had a high income, no student loans, plenty of spending money for skiing and plenty of childless 30-something friends. I don't know PNJ's age or age when she had kids, but for those who had kids after 30- there is a pleasant gap where the loans are paid off and the high income job has been held for several years. Even more so if you are what they sometimes call "double income, no kids" (DINKS). And for many ski-heavy years we skiied often with our DINK friends. (We stopped not because of kids but because a friend hit black ice and became a quadriplegic despite ski skills dating back to his toddlerhood. It spooked us.)

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