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: 10-05-2007
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 11:24am

bwahahaha


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Ducky

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Registered: 08-27-2007
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 11:28am

IME, first birthdays, christenings, communions and confirmations are usually held in catering halls, knights of columbus, or firehalls and that can cost a pretty penny!


Seriously?????? WHY????


I did all the above, at home with my family in my backyard. We did a BBQ, had some homemade cake and some cheese and meat platters. The kids swam in a kiddie pool, ran throug our sprinkler and rode bikes up and down my driveway. I couldnt picture a better way to spend my day then with my family and friends in my backyard with a BBQ!

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 &n

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 11:32am
Actually, when people VOLUNTEER to host a party, and my name is NOT on the invitation, I assume I am not invited and do not show up expecting to be entertained. I also believe that the host and/or hostess has made the necessary arrangements to supervise the children involved. They are not babysitting, they are entertaining, or having my kids over. At their request. If I did not think it "fair" to tend to the needs of my guests, I simply would not have guests.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 11:37am
I kind of thought the point of a child being at a birthday party was for the children to socialize with each other. Not for the parent and child to hang around and play games together at somebody else's expense.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 11:41am
The odd thing is that many children actually behave better without their parents there than they do under Mom's watchful eye. I have hosted well over a dozen birthday parties with as many as 25 kids involved, and have never had a discipline issue. I've had a couple of minor meltdowns when the kids were younger over things like fear of bursting balloons or not being first in line for pizza or whatever, but they were very easily dealt with.
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Registered: 07-18-2007
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 11:49am

Our local branch of the House of the Giant Rat is simply vile.

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Registered: 08-27-2007
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 11:49am

I just don't see why you would NOT stay. How young WOULD you leave your child at a party?


around 4 years. IF the person holding the party is not someone I know extremely well and trust 100% with my child then my child does not go. I dont do random b'day parties. If my kids go to a party its b/c I know the parents well and trust that they will look after my child as if its thier own.


When my kids have a party the parents just drop them off and pick them up 3 hours later. If they dont trust me enough to care for thier child for

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 &n

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 11:50am
If I invited a bunch of kids over for a party, I would hardly be "unsuspecting" or "innocent" of what was involved in entertaining and feeding them for several hours. One of my good friends has six kids under the age of twelve; we often have four of hers over to play with our three. We sometimes will do it on Saturday mornings so she can grocery shop in peace (or with just her younger two) and then she'll watch my younger two the next week while I run errands -- my fifteen year old is old enough to stay home by himself on Saturday mornings. Sometimes he sleeps through the whole thing!
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Registered: 11-22-2000
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 11:59am

OMG, this is what happens when you're too tired to function.


When I read your post, I originally thought the question asked how LONG you'd leave your child at a party.


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Registered: 09-04-1997
Wed, 01-02-2008 - 12:00pm
I know some of these poor deprived people, too. But their dreams of spending time with their kids involve doing things like taking them to the Metropolitan Museum in New York City and to the Bronx Zoo, not taking them to birthday parties. They shed big old tears just thinking about the people who have kids and COULD take them to museums but are just not interested in doing so. Funny how different people can be, hunh?

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