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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Registered: 06-27-1998
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 12:03am

Really?

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 01-02-2008 - 12:04am

B/c really, nothing shows the true meaning of the Christian faith like dropping a wad on a party to "impress" all your friends and family.


I don't know what your faith is, but in my church, baptism is a sacrament and celebrated as such.

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Wed, 01-02-2008 - 12:09am

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I don't agree with that, you seem to rely on children's birthday parties and tinder say she uses it as an opportunity to social with other parents.....others

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 01-02-2008 - 12:12am
Drop off parties are the norm here, DS is in kindy and I've dropped him off before. Like a PP said, if I didn't know and trust the hosts, my kid wouldn't be at the party. Period. I will occasionally stay if I don't have anything else to do...but I'd rather get stuff done if I can. And if the parents don't want to "be responsible" for my kid, then they shouldn't invite him. I'd never invite kids to a party that I wasn't willing to take responsibility for.
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Wed, 01-02-2008 - 12:15am

The places where DS typically attends bday parties provide staff to help w/the kids. I mean, why pay a couple of hundred bucks for a party if you actually have to work? I write the check, watch the kids have a blast, and that's that.


Chuck E Cheese sucks. I would never have a bday party there, that place is hell on earth.

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Wed, 01-02-2008 - 12:16am

So one, single elementary school birthday party.....contradicts and overides everyone else's personal experiences on birthday parties?

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 01-02-2008 - 12:18am
When did Dave and Buster's do kid-friendly? Isn't that place a bar?
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Wed, 01-02-2008 - 12:20am

Well...only if one overlooks the not so nice things that hazel has said about those parents who don't attend birthday parties and the fact that merella hasn't said anything negative or nasty.


Good try though.


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 12-29-1999
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 12:30am
I had parents drop off their four year olds at Chase's fifth bday party last year. Several parents dropped of their kids. One parent dropped off both her kids, despite the fact that the big brother hadn't even been invited...I didn't appreciate it, but I dealt w/it.
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Wed, 01-02-2008 - 12:47am
Well, I guess those of us who drop our kids off at parties

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