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| Sat, 03-02-2013 - 3:33pm |
Here is a SAHM who takes careful budgeting to new heights. It must, of course, be noted that since her DH is military, the family is probably covered in terms of health insurance.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-a-family-of-four-manages-to-live-well-on-just--14-000-per-year-174803218.html
"Wagasky, 28, lives with her her husband, Jason, 31, and their two young children in a three-bedroom family home in Las Vegas, Nevada. While Jason, a member of the U.S. Army, completes his undergraduate studies, the family's only source of income is the $14,000 annual cost of living allowance he receives under the G.I. Bill. Despite all odds, the family has barely any credit card debt, no car payment, and no mortgage to speak of."
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"By the time Wagasky's husband came home from Iraq, they had managed to scrape together the $30,000 they needed for a downpayment on a home.
"But we decided the best option would be not to have a mortgage payment at all," she said. "We found a fixer-upper that didn't have a kitchen ... and we paid cash." "
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Dh's rule is - if you need a response now or pretty soon, call him. If you just want to impart information, or if the response can be a long time from now, you can text him.
For me, it isn't about "me" or how I feel. My Daddy doesn't like to text. So I don't text him, even though many of our phone conversations would be much more easily done over text. He doesn't want to. Because he's almost 70 and doesn't want to trade in his flip phone for a phone w/a keyboard. Whatever.
DS loves to text me from his iPod. I fully expect the texting to increase when he gets a phone. Which is fine. So long as he's communicating in a way that is comfortable to him, I'm just glad he's communicating. I don't care HOW he communicates with me, it is more important to me to keep those lines open in a way he feels comfortable than the mechanics of how he's communicating.
I don't want to take a my way or highway approach to communicating w/my kid.
On Wednesdays we wear pink.
That's exactly how I feel, I tell my kids I want to hear their voices, Lol. DH texts on his blackberry so the kids do get that opportunity to text us, Just not with me b/c I don't like it.
I like Facebook messages for family comminication because we can all see what everyone else is saying. But DD1 does not use FB as much as the rest of the family so sometimes I also have to send her a text to let her know there is a message on FB for her.
I use texting rather than FB when it is information that I want to make sure they get in a timely matter because I do not know when they may check FB.
Texting is the favorite way of communcating for my kids so I am doing it more and more. I did not like it at first but since I got a phone with a key board I am liking it more. It works very well when we want to share information but do not need a reply or to have a conversation.
The thing that I do not like about texting is when one of my kids want to use if for a conversation. If we have to go back and forth more than two times I would much rather just talk.
No school or company should use facebook as its main information channel because of facebook's well known privacy and security issues.
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