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: 09-04-1997
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 11:01am
I always hired teenagers to help me with the games and the serving and the clean-up when my kids were little. The teens liked it and they "played" with the kids more actively than I would have. I am just not that into being in bouncy houses or playing Pin the Pyramid on the Nile. Teens, especially younger ones, are, and they work cheap.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 11:03am
Who doesn't like going places with their children? We do all kinds of things as a family. But we also have adult parties where the adults go without the kids, and kid parties where the kids go without the adults. If my kid were too young to handle a certain venue on his own (skating rink, bowling alley, whatever, I wouldn't let him go. I'd make him wait until he was the appropriate age.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 11:04am

I'm a bit confused as how the time can be both relaxing, nearly uninterrupted time as well as supervising and/or playing with one's children all at the same time.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 11:06am

Hey Pumpkin I just want to let you know that if you lived closer to me I'd be proud to be considered one of your 'oodles' of friends.

 

Yes. We. Did.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 11:07am

Thanks....and I would be proud to consider you a friend as well.


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 08-27-2007
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 11:12am
Hmm, I really dont want to live where you are then. Here I cant tell who owns from who rents usually.

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 &n

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 11:16am
I used to have a few parents insist on staying with their kids when I threw parties and it was just awkward. Especially if they dragged along siblings who were too young for the planned activities. I especially remember one year when my son had an "archaeology" theme party -- they had dug up pot shards in the sandbox and the activity was to reassemble them into pots. It took the manual dexterity of at least a seven year old (my son was turning nine) and this Mom insisted on having her three year old participate. Of course he couldn't do it by himself and ended up getting glue all over himself. He didn't seem to mind, but he took up more of my attention than any five of the 8-10 year olds we'd actually invited to the party.
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Registered: 08-27-2007
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 11:18am
Uh, the bowling alley, the YMCA, heck Pizza Hut. All under $100! And all very fun.

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 &n

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Registered: 08-27-2007
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 11:22am

Our house is too small and they trashed the house.


You should look into upgrading to a larger apartment if your home is too small. What is the point of living in a too small space just to have a bit of equity?

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 &n

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 11:22am
IMO, if the kid is too young to be dropped off at the party the kid is too young for a "regular" birthday party. When my kids were three and four, "birthday parties" consisted of a few family members and maybe a couple of neighbor kids coming over for a picnic followed by cake and ice cream. We didn't do the big party thing with games and themes and real invites until the kids were five. Even that was too young for my younger, more introverted child.

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