Apartment Living

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-27-2005
Apartment Living
929
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

Pages

Avatar for 4thekids2001
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 8:47am

Why would you do games at Chuckie Cheese, that's the beauty of having a party there, just feed the kids then they take off and play!


iVillage Member
Registered: 07-18-2007
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 9:25am

The same way the multiple adults you

Yeah well, that's just, ya know, like, your opinion, man-The Big Lebowski 

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-06-2004
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 9:28am
We are watching them.

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-26-2007
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 9:33am

Silly! Children must never, ever, ever be allowed one single second of their lives to play with other children WITHOUT Mommy standing right THERE, sharing every single NANOSECOND of time with them!!! What if they went to a party and had fun WITHOUT MOMMY?!? What if they learned that they can entertain themselves? The world would end! Civilization would crumble! Don't you know all the greatest coming of age movies, all the greatest kid movies involve children depending on Mommy for EVERY. SINGLE. DECISION?!? isn't that the common denominator in such classics as ET, Stand By Me and Bridge to Terabithia? The constant Presence of Mommy?

;)

~~~~~~~~~

Kitty

"I think Noonan is at least eight years too late when she laments that faith now trumps competence in GOP politics. It didn't seem to bother her much when a candidate she supported -- the catastrophically underqualified GWB -- was running and citing Jesus as his favorite political philosopher...It's like the old saying: When you lie down with dogs, you wake up with Hucka-fleas..."--Gator


Click on the Virginia Rescue Center and search for Roxey, VA5165

~~~~~~~~~

Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

Avatar for mkatherine
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 9:37am
You know what?

 

Yes. We. Did.

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-17-2003
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 9:47am

"I would not leave my 2 kids with even my sister just for a bday party. I don't find that fair to the parents having the party. They are not your free babysitter so you can do what you want for 2-3 hours. YOU should be watching your child(ren) at a party. I had one parent leave her dd at my dd's bday party. She is a co-worker so I know her well but her child was so needy and hung on me during my dd's party. Why was that fair? She got a free babysitter for 2 hours so she could go and do whatever she wanted. "


If the parents having the party don't want to watch the children they're inviting, then they shouldn't invite them.

Avatar for mkatherine
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 10:02am
Hey -- Go Team Hilary!

 

Yes. We. Did.

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-17-2003
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 10:06am
"I barely leave my 2 kids with my sister or gf for too long as they get to be too much! I couldn't imagine leaving them with a parent (even my sister or gf) for a party of 10 or more kids and expect them
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-26-2007
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 10:13am
Well, that's one of the advantages of raising children with manners; you don't have to hover over them 24/7 to ensure they behave.

~~~~~~~~~

Kitty

"I think Noonan is at least eight years too late when she laments that faith now trumps competence in GOP politics. It didn't seem to bother her much when a candidate she supported -- the catastrophically underqualified GWB -- was running and citing Jesus as his favorite political philosopher...It's like the old saying: When you lie down with dogs, you wake up with Hucka-fleas..."--Gator


Click on the Virginia Rescue Center and search for Roxey, VA5165

~~~~~~~~~

Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-27-1998
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 10:30am

We were talking about birthday parties, hazel clearly mentioned in this thread that her dd's birthday party was a sleepover.

PumpkinAngel

Pages