Working for Lifestyle/Extras
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| Mon, 11-20-2006 - 11:13am |
Hi Ladies :)
This is my first time on this debate board and I have been dying to jump into some of the topics, but I feel as though they are sooooo long (one in particular is over 1000 replies, yikes!) that starting my own specific one might work out better.
Anyhow, a recurring theme here seems to be what Moms should and shouldn't be going to work for. It seems some are of the opinion that is OK for Mom to work if she must to pay her bills but NOT if its to afford a nice car, house, good neighborhood. This is considered keeping up with the Johnses (who are they???) and thats bad.
Well, I want to know what in the heck is wrong with a women working to have nice things? I don't mean working and leaving baby in child care 16 hours a day, everyday...thats pretty extreme.
I enjoyed a certain lifestyle before having a child, should I have downsized that lifestyle once baby came so I didn't have to work? What about me *wanting* to maintain a certain lifestyle for myself, my husband, and my child makes me a (a) workaholic or (b) striving to keep up with the Joneses?
Don't some people (like myself) simply enjoy living in a nice place with nice things and want their children to have the same experience?
So please, anyone who thinks a women is wrong for WOH if she is not doing so to financially survive but does it to maintain a certain lifestyle...whats wrong with this?
Thanks all :)

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LOL, I am sorry, but these things fascinate me on some level. I guess you would not want to check out the Duggar family's recipe page? ;)
http://www.jimbob.info/recipes.html
"In either case, I don't think it is healthy to deny these impulses, if you have them. I watched my grandmother do that for a lifetime, and her bitterness at the end of it was sad."
Exactly the same with my mother.
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Are you kidding?
PumpkinAngel
Six years ago, our family of four was living quite comfortably on dh's salary of $60000 (and those are Canadian dollars) a year. Comfortably, mind you - not luxuriously. However, our house was only worth $115000, and our property taxes were $1600 a year. We started saving for the kid's college funds when they were born, but we never planned on a full four year ride. We put money in retirement savings, but DH had a pretty good company pension. Being Canadian, health insurance was never an issue.
Things have really changed here in the past 5 years. Housing prices have exploded - there is not a single house for sale in my small town for less than $300000.
Carrie
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