Beautiful Saturday

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Registered: 12-22-2013
Beautiful Saturday
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Sat, 03-08-2014 - 4:31pm

1. Has your weekend been busy or relaxing?

2. How often do you dust?

3. Are you excited for March Madness?

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Registered: 08-22-2009
Sun, 03-16-2014 - 4:07pm

. At 19 I had a full time job with benefits, engaged to be married. At 21 I was married, living in my fully furnished apt. My dh and I both had cars and a year after we were married, we bought a brand new truck. </p><p>If you take the right path in life and not rush things, you CAN be young and live a good life. I owned a home by the time I was 25 and waited 5 years for a child. </p></div></div></div></div>[/quote]

Weren't ypu at 19 living with mommy and daddy?   It is quite easy for someone working a full time job to save money  living with their parents. 

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Sun, 03-16-2014 - 4:10pm

emptynester2009 wrote:
<p>. At 19 I had a full time job with benefits, engaged to be married. At 21 I was married, living in my fully furnished apt. My dh and I both had cars and a year after we were married, we bought a brand new truck. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you take the right path in life and not rush things, you CAN be young and live a good life. I owned a home by the time I was 25 and waited 5 years for a child. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
</p><p>Weren't ypu at 19 living with mommy and daddy?   It is quite easy for someone working a full time job to save money  living with their parents.  </p>[/quote].  It's also easier to buy a house if someone gifts you a down payment.

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Registered: 12-22-2013
Sun, 03-16-2014 - 4:16pm

Weren't ypu at 19 living with mommy and daddy?   It is quite easy for someone working a full time job to save money  living with their parents. 

I only did so, so I could start off my married life right. My dh lived on his own and paid all his own bills. I could have moved out but I made the right choices. 

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Registered: 12-22-2013
Sun, 03-16-2014 - 4:18pm

</p><p>Weren't ypu at 19 living with mommy and daddy?   It is quite easy for someone working a full time job to save money  living with their parents.  </p>[/quote].  It's also easier to buy a house if someone gifts you a down payment.

It is but I wouldnt know as we didnt get an entire down payment for a house given to us. 

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Sun, 03-16-2014 - 4:19pm
You lived at home? Did you pay rent? And yet you excoriate Marla for letting a homeless girl sleep on her couch? Do you not have a conscience?
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Registered: 08-22-2009
Sun, 03-16-2014 - 4:25pm

>I only did so, so I could start off my married life right. My dh lived on his own and paid all his own bills. I could have moved out but I made the right choices. 

I totally understand that it was the right choice for you but it contradicts your statements about how financially  independent you were at 19 compared to kids these days.  You were not financially independent. 

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Registered: 12-22-2013
Sun, 03-16-2014 - 4:28pm
    You lived at home? Did you pay rent? And yet you excoriate Marla for letting a homeless girl sleep on her couch? Do you not have a conscience?
    Obviously you missed my post where I said I COULD have moved out but decided that I was going to things the right way. I wanted a fully furnished, with new furniture and things home, a honeymoon that we didnt have to go around the corner because we could only afford so much. If I did move out, I could done it but not have had all the bells and whistles that living at hime allowed me. No one enabled me and at 19, I had a full time job with benefits that I got all on my own. 
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    Registered: 12-22-2013
    Sun, 03-16-2014 - 4:30pm

      >I only did so, so I could start off my married life right. My dh lived on his own and paid all his own bills. I could have moved out but I made the right choices. 

      I totally understand that it was the right choice for you but it contradicts your statements about how financially  independent you were at 19 compared to kids these days.  You were not financially independent. 

      I could have easily been if I didnt choose the correct path. Even if I was on my own, I could have afforded my own place or could have lived with my dh. 

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      Registered: 08-22-2009
      Sun, 03-16-2014 - 4:34pm

      Obviously you missed my post where I said I COULD have moved out but decided that I was going to things the right way. I wanted a fully furnished, with new furniture and things home, a honeymoon that we didnt have to go around the corner because we could only afford so much. If I did move out, I could done it but not have had all the bells and whistles that living at hime allowed me. No one enabled me and at 19, I had a full time job with benefits that I got all on my own. </div></div></div>[/quote]

      THe people that were paying for the roof over your head and the electcity water etc that your were using enabled you.

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      Registered: 01-08-2009
      Sun, 03-16-2014 - 4:35pm
      Of course someone enabled you, Blackandwhitemolly. You were able to buy furniture (on time?) and go on a honeymoon because your parents gave you a place to live for free. It was a trade off. Nothing wrong with that, but to look down on other people who didn't and don't have that kind of subsidy just reeks.

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