What would you give up to stay home?
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| Sat, 08-05-2006 - 8:36am |
Hi everyone.
I have always said that staying home is so important to me that I would give up many things to be able to do that. We live in a very small home, I have no jewelry and we buy all our clothes at Walmart. I know that if I went back to work, we could afford more. But I would never trade being at home for a larger house or more luxuries.
However, after reading this board I have started to suspect that there are things I would not want to give up. If I couldn't send my kids to preschool a couple of hours a day, if I couldn't afford any after school activities like ballet lessons or if I could'nt afford any kind of summer program for them, I think I would have to find a way to go back to work. So basically, I'm perfectly happy to deny myself "things." But I would not want to take much away from the kids.
Of course I would probably have to find a new career becuase I could never work the 80 hours a week my old career entailed.

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I don't know, why did you bring it up if you didn't think it was relevant?
PumpkinAngel
How often does that happen in today's world, regardless of working status of the parents?
PumpkinAngel
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"Personally, if I thought our retirement was so precarious that neither of us could ever take a few years off without jeopardizing it, I'd be aking some serious lifestyle changes."
I know you're talking to Kbmamm, but that's an oversimplification of what SAH "for a few years" may do to a person and to a family.
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Good points however -
"After all, a career can always be resumed, ..."
Not mine.
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