WOHMs - could you afford to take 3 mo...

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Registered: 04-22-2005
WOHMs - could you afford to take 3 mo...
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Mon, 11-05-2007 - 11:13am

WOHMs - could you afford to take 3 months of totally unpaid leave?



  • Yes, we have enough saved up for that
  • Yes, we could save up enough for that
  • Yes, DH makes enough to get us by
  • No
  • other


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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-14-2007
Thu, 11-08-2007 - 2:02pm
And then sex again after sleep!
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-27-2005
Thu, 11-08-2007 - 2:02pm

How do you consider furniture an extra? Everyone needs a bed to sleep on.

Our last vacation was in 2002 and we brought our dd to my parents, drove to FL, stayed with my mil and took her to Disney for the day. Same thing in 2000 and any other time before that we stayed at my parents in FL for a week.
We had 3 "big" vacations-our honeymoon in 1993, 1st anniversary in 1994 and the cruise in 1996 (we won).

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 11-08-2007 - 2:03pm
Carpooling is a choice in most places and many more Americans will probably opt into that in the future. As gas prices get higher it might become doable.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Thu, 11-08-2007 - 2:04pm

all I'm saying is that if you had asked me if such a program existed a year ago I would have said "No I have not heard of such a thing! not here!"

 

Yes. We. Did.

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-27-2005
Thu, 11-08-2007 - 2:05pm
But you don't see that while I am saving the money for the furniture bill, I AM saving money as I am getting the interest on the savings account.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Thu, 11-08-2007 - 2:05pm

mmmmmmmmmmm...... post-sex drowsiness..... that's the BEST....

 

Yes. We. Did.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 11-08-2007 - 2:06pm

Exactly.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 11-08-2007 - 2:06pm
LOL Mkat, I meant they are all equally important, they are on the first level. I couldn't make a pyramid like he does (well not on this message board anyway). You may choose sleep or sex to be equal or one before the other, whichever you like it Katie's heirarchy of needs! ; )

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Thu, 11-08-2007 - 2:10pm
Yes, it is better to save money and earn interest on something you are planning to buy in the future than to finance it. But it is better still not to buy it at all. Everyone needs a place to sleep, but nobody needs a bunkbed that costs over seven hundred dollars plus new bedding plus paint and accessories to redo the room. Those things are nice, but only if you can afford them. So if you want to save money, don't go on the cruise and don't spend close to a thousand dollars on the new bedroom. If you don't want to save money, spend whatever you like. Just don't try to persuade me that there's nothing you could cut back on if you actually DID want to save more money.
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Thu, 11-08-2007 - 2:10pm
Sometimes carpooling is not that easy if you don't live near someone who works with you. My dh has hours from 5am-6am-4pm but then has to pick up our dd at after-care. I have to drop off my dd at the busstop and then take my son to daycare and it is right around the corner from my job so there really is no carpooling able there either.
My father used to carpool with people from his company but he still had to pay to do that for the van's gas and maintenance money.

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