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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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I would NEVER not have Christmas for my children. In my opinion, Christmas IS for children. We are very fortunate that we get very good bonuses for Christmas and are able to buy things for everyone with it. If one of us did not, I would definately have a Christmas fund. My parnets always did that and it worked great for them. We did it for one year but then our bills went up and there was no extra money for it.
What "occasional" cruise? This is the 1st one for my kids and my son is 4 and has NEVER been on any type of vacation at all. I have explained over and over about the cruise money also.
I don't believe you answered my question about posting that cable has always been in your budget like food & whether the extra "not" was a typo.
You can exchange cruise with vacation. You did spend several posts yesterday defending why you are spending money on vacation. I remembered that you had been on a cruise before.
I didn't say you couldn't afford the furniture. You are the one who said that you couldn't save money. My point all along is that you can't afford the furniture IF you also want to save more money. It is perfectly clear that you don't WANT to save more money.
I don't know what MOST people think. I don't think I can afford something discretionary unless I have all my bills paid and other financial goals met. Then I get to think about spending my extra money on extras.
I wouldn't even CONSIDER an arrangement like yours, with the zero percent financing thing unless I already had the money in the bank and could pay it off at any time if something happened.
Yes, it was a typo.
Yes, we did go on a cruise before, in 2006 that we won and spend almost NO money to go on.
She purchased a 3 bedroom, 1500 sq ft home on 2 lots for $70K.
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