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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iVillage Member
Registered: 01-05-2005
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 1:24pm
The work day just isn't that long. You are assuming the hospital is conveniently located and reachable from work and won't impact time to get home at the end of the day. You are assuming the event occurs when there is enough day left for that to be even remotely likely. You are assuming the primarily affected adult has nothing going that would requie the other adult to try and re-arrange or handle either. You are assuming the following days would not benefit from some logistical attention, given that this is such a huge occurence that two adults might rush from work.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 1:33pm

No, actually, I've always made a high income since I graduated from law school, and my rent, car loan, student loan were all low enough to allow me to save a down payment on my first home in two years of working.


I guess most of my close friends either were in the same income situation, or made recreational spending a high priority.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 1:36pm
FYI, I was 34 when my first child was born.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-29-2004
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 1:44pm
Baffling, no? But at least we can applaud a consistent point of view. When it comes to cars, sports, you name it, kids cannot choose. They have no experience. The lucky ones have parents who decide for them.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 1:48pm
See, if you had a degree in Human Environmental Sciences like that lady running the seminars, you'd KNOW the answer to that question.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2003
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 2:04pm

"Its way easier for me to hit the slopes with friends post kids than it ever was pre kids. First of all careers being what they are, way more of my like minded friends can afford skis and teh ski days/trips to go along with them. Not to mention so many more of us can afford the awd/4x4 vehicles that tend to make actual execution so much more likely to happen."

So...because you had kids you now have more money and your friends have more money???? Did you choose a different career based on becoming a parent? Most folks I know have less disposable income after becoming parents. Good for you.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 2:18pm
Hey where ya been?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 01-05-2005
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 2:27pm
1)I had kids after 30.
2)I had two incomes. The pre kid years represent those when it just wasn't very lucrative. As a result of the way careers and salary scales go. Not to mention, wealth building.
3)If I had kids at 37 I'd have had a very serious shortage of childless contemporaries from my social circle with which to ski. Like most people.
iVillage Member
Registered: 01-05-2005
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 2:29pm
So you had lots of money at 25, law school not withstanding. Do you think this is typical?
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 2:29pm

So then you agree that a child doesn't have to be in competitive anything, let alone sports to have an active, healthy childhood?

PumpkinAngel

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