Apartment Living

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Apartment Living
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Sat, 12-29-2007 - 10:49am

With all these talk about going from homes to apartments, I wondered how many people think:


1. Going from a home to an apartment is moving "down" in life. (I am not speaking of after the kids grow up and you sell your home to OWN an apartment/condo/townhouse, but a family that owns a home and then sells it to rent an apt.)


2. What are the advantages when you own something and have equity and then go to giving someone else your money to pay THEIR bills?


3. How bad would it have to be living in your home to make the decision to do this?


4. What advantages and/or disadvantages are there to living in an apartment vs living in

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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:36pm

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This is what I asked my question on....Do you believe that those who drop off their kids are not friendly and don't enjoy hanging out at a children's party?


<<While I am sure going to the party is not the first thing they would choose to do that day, they do it for their kids. >>


What does this have to do with anything?

PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:37pm
I am just not getting WHY these parents DON'T want the other parents to stay. Maybe they don't want to feed them and that is how they get away with such cheap parties-? :)
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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:37pm
We come from a hefty drinking social community, but no alcohol is served at the children's birthday parties.
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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:38pm
I'm now thinking maybe that is how parents save money (like you are saying with only spending $100 on a party) at parties by not having the adults so they don't have to feed them too! :)
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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:39pm

but again you will notice that I have never once said i find your way of doing things odd or wrong or strange. I've said repeatedly -- great. good for you. knock yourself out and have fun.

I. Don't. Enjoy. kids. Birthday. Parties.

end of discussion. It's not where I want to have super special time with their parents and it's not where I want to spend MY time. It's not. That. Big. A. deal.

Let's see-- Last sunday when Liza was with her friend for the day and I worked at the bookstore her friend an dher sister had basketball practice. the friends mom took Liza along and said she was a bit in a quandry as she usually ran tot he grocery store while the girls practiced. I told her to go right ahead. Liza would hbe happy as a clam watching her friends play (this si the school team where lots of her friends play. they'd be at the school gym with the coach and assitant coach around both who know Liza). Liza said "you bet. go shopping" the mom did. Liza stayed at practice and all was well. This is how we work things out - I'd do the same for this mom and have when she's been in a jam.

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Yes. We. Did.

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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:40pm
Well, if it's not the norm in your area to leave kids at parties, then I can understand why you feel that way.
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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:41pm

DUH!!!! I came rightout and said I don't feed the parents. They can have a piece of cake if they're there for it but I barely feed the kids. Call me cheap but really -- they don't need more than a slice of cake and some ice cream I've seen toom any pizzas get thrown out and too much food wasted.

You're REALLY making this out to be way more complicated than it needs to be. Like there's this big conspiracy out there to cheap out by starving grown adults who are perfectly capable of stopping at Subway and getting them selves something while the little munchkins are at the party.

"If gay Americans are not allowed to get married and have all the benefits that American citizens are entitled to by the Bill of Rights, they should get one hell of a tax break. That is my opinion,"

- Jeane "Dear Abby" Phillips, in an interview with Lisa Leff.

 

Yes. We. Did.

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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:41pm
But I do the same things with my gf. This is not the same as a birthday party that have 10 or more kids at one time left under someone else's responsibility. My children are going to act up sometimes and I don't feel another parent should have to discipline them.
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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:42pm

As shocking as this sounds, because people do different things in different areas.

PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:42pm
Well then the parties must be very different by me because the parents are always fed and they never expected to get their own food.

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