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: 07-26-2007
Sat, 11-10-2007 - 12:02am
Seriously. The bathrooms and the kitchen are the ONLY rooms in my home without a TV and if I could figure out how to get a TV in the kitchen, it would only be the bathrooms. And to my shame I DO have a mirror that I can place so I can watch TV from the tub if I want a soak. :) Okay, so I'm not really ashamed...

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Kitty

"Armour.com also has some wonderful tips for emergency preparedness, which include laying in a big supply of canned meat products. When the end comes, you can ponder whether you've been eating the Four Horses of the Apocalypse."--Moon.Pie.Zappa


Click on the Virginia Rescue Center and search for Roxey, VA5165

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Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-06-2004
Sat, 11-10-2007 - 12:10am
My ex would carry the bedroom tv into the bathroom so he could soak in the tub~

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-26-2007
Sat, 11-10-2007 - 12:16am

I never said those were the choices. I said the long commute was the choice between long commute/earning enough to live WHERE I live or working where I live and NEVER earning enough to live there and always needing to have a roommate to make ends meet.

The choice with "living in the box" came with working AT ALL. Try reading my post as written next time, instead of filtered through what you wanted it to say.

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Kitty

"Armour.com also has some wonderful tips for emergency preparedness, which include laying in a big supply of canned meat products. When the end comes, you can ponder whether you've been eating the Four Horses of the Apocalypse."--Moon.Pie.Zappa


Click on the Virginia Rescue Center and search for Roxey, VA5165

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Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-26-2007
Sat, 11-10-2007 - 12:18am
LOL, okay, as long as I don't have to give up my "luxuries" ;)

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Kitty

"Armour.com also has some wonderful tips for emergency preparedness, which include laying in a big supply of canned meat products. When the end comes, you can ponder whether you've been eating the Four Horses of the Apocalypse."--Moon.Pie.Zappa


Click on the Virginia Rescue Center and search for Roxey, VA5165

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Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-26-2007
Sat, 11-10-2007 - 12:46am

I believe that most people have more choices than to commute or live in a box.

No one made that argument. That is your strawman (misrepresentation) of what I actually said. Repeating it doesn't mean I ever said it.

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Kitty

"Armour.com also has some wonderful tips for emergency preparedness, which include laying in a big supply of canned meat products. When the end comes, you can ponder whether you've been eating the Four Horses of the Apocalypse."--Moon.Pie.Zappa


Click on the Virginia Rescue Center and search for Roxey, VA5165

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Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-26-2007
Sat, 11-10-2007 - 12:57am

yeah, my sister is also one who lives and works in her county. She puts nearly 80K miles on her car annually, because she's a special ed teacher, specializing in the visually impaired, so she covers all the blind students in all the schools in the county. Two summers ago, she spent the summer commuting to Southern Illinois University for the classes she needed to get that certification teachers need under NCLB (I forget what it's called). Last summer she did the same thing because she's been working as a tutor for OTHER teachers to become certified.

Probably not worth the effort to move to Carbondale for 2 months out of a year. And which part of the county should she live in to best support all her students?

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Kitty

"Armour.com also has some wonderful tips for emergency preparedness, which include laying in a big supply of canned meat products. When the end comes, you can ponder whether you've been eating the Four Horses of the Apocalypse."--Moon.Pie.Zappa


Click on the Virginia Rescue Center and search for Roxey, VA5165

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Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-26-2007
Sat, 11-10-2007 - 1:05am

Well, let's talk about that commute I made to Rosslyn back in the 90s.

I was living just outside Baltimore and working in Rosslyn, VA. Took me 45 minutes to drive to work every day, about 45 miles. My coworker lived 8 miles from our Rosslyn office, in Springfield, VA. It took her 35 minutes to drive to work every day. Moving closer to that job wouldn't have saved me much time and would have cost me about 3 times as much in housing.

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Kitty

"Armour.com also has some wonderful tips for emergency preparedness, which include laying in a big supply of canned meat products. When the end comes, you can ponder whether you've been eating the Four Horses of the Apocalypse."--Moon.Pie.Zappa


Click on the Virginia Rescue Center and search for Roxey, VA5165

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Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-26-2007
Sat, 11-10-2007 - 1:08am
it never works for us; we don't have the cool toaster oven program that the gays/lesbians have ;)

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Kitty

"Armour.com also has some wonderful tips for emergency preparedness, which include laying in a big supply of canned meat products. When the end comes, you can ponder whether you've been eating the Four Horses of the Apocalypse."--Moon.Pie.Zappa


Click on the Virginia Rescue Center and search for Roxey, VA5165

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Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-26-2007
Sat, 11-10-2007 - 1:10am

Well, the 20th is a nice birthday (it's Joel's) but I really do hope you don't have to wait that long!

OMG!! I can't believe you'd even *joke* about something like that! LOL You'll be lucky if she doesn't hunt you down and transplant that baby!! LOL

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Kitty

"Armour.com also has some wonderful tips for emergency preparedness, which include laying in a big supply of canned meat products. When the end comes, you can ponder whether you've been eating the Four Horses of the Apocalypse."--Moon.Pie.Zappa


Click on the Virginia Rescue Center and search for Roxey, VA5165

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Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-26-2007
Sat, 11-10-2007 - 1:36am
A TV addict after my own heart :) I suppose he's too jerky otherwise, tho, to fix me up with ;)

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Kitty

"Armour.com also has some wonderful tips for emergency preparedness, which include laying in a big supply of canned meat products. When the end comes, you can ponder whether you've been eating the Four Horses of the Apocalypse."--Moon.Pie.Zappa


Click on the Virginia Rescue Center and search for Roxey, VA5165

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Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

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