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re: Can you afford a stay at home mom?
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:06 pm to jmh5724
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:06 pm to jmh5724
I feel "stay at home" mom should not be a full time job. A woman needs to work, or at best, have a productive hobby. Something fulfilling that is their own. Kids will get older and not need mom as much. When that happens, she'll get bored. When ex-stay at home moms get bored, they spend money. They "redecorate" the house. They become a pain in their husband's arse because they're working, and the wife has nothing to do. I'd pay for a nanny so my wife could continue to work. If she wants to be stay at home, it's her choice. Plus a nanny can shop and cook. You don't need a person for each of those.
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Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:08 pm to jmh5724
What about the working moms who also cook and clean and buy groceries?
This article is a joke to say the least.
This article is a joke to say the least.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:10 pm to LSU8654722
Quite a generalization you have there. Some wives don't feel the need to spend money. Mine is as frugal as they come. Her hobbies are going to the gym a couple hours a day and doing things with other stay at home moms with their kids. Some times they spend money on activities, other times they just go to the park.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:38 pm to LSU8654722
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I feel "stay at home" mom should not be a full time job
I get where you are coming from when the kids get older and go to school, but I would not have wanted to trade places with my wife when she was staying at home with our infant son. You can't go anywhere without keeping his feeding and nap schedule in mind. It's difficult to get chores around the house done when he's either sleeping, eating, or crying. Plus you never get away from that. It may be going to work, but I'm spending 8 hours away from dealing with all of that stuff before I head back home.
Now when the kids are in school, she even admitted that it would be a bit easy to do.
Also, many people have full time nannies that do all of the work listed in the article. I doubt they pay them $70k a year. That'd be a pretty damned good job. So from that, you can conclude that the figures given are complete BS.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:41 pm to SpqrTiger
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Okay, so this type of extrapolation is a failure, and here's why. Does his wife cook at the level of a professional chef? How many meals are we talking about here? 10 different meals or are there duplications? How long did it take to prepare the 10 meals? 2 hours? Consecutively or every day? Would you pay $120 an hour for someone to cook for you?
And the husband doesn't subtract from her "salary" the services HE provides to HER and the household. Does he do any child care? Does he cook? Does he do any laundry or does she do it ALL? He provides free security service, driving, tech support, home repairs, gardening, car maintenance and repair, right? What would all of that total?
That's why I can't stand articles and little Facebook-worthy blogs like this. All it does is serve to poison people against each other. You live under the same roof? You don't keep score like that. The instant you do, you begin a long walk down the path of resentment, and there's no turning back.
Cannot believe I am the only one to upvote this post.
Well said sir.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:43 pm to HeadyMurphey
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Mine is as frugal as they come. Her hobbies are going to the gym a couple hours a day and doing things with other stay at home moms with their kids.
I said ex-stay at home moms, as in the kids are gone. I understand the need to be frugal when you're still paying for everything for the kids.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:47 pm to jmh5724
Daycare is the biggest cost. It's bad enough you're paying $150 per child. Add to that the cost of medical care because those places are a Petri dish of disease.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:54 pm to jmh5724
No, but if we do have kids much later on, my girlfriend will be affording a stay at home dad
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:55 pm to RealityTiger
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Posted on 4/7/15 at 1:15 pm to KG6
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someone said that a stay at home mom's salary should be equal to over 200k
Yeah, bullshite. The market sets rates like that. What would it cost to hire a nice young woman to do most of the things a stay at home mom does? Maybe $50k? Make it $100k and she'd blow you whenever you want - none of this "I have a headache" shite!
My kids are grown. My wife stayed at home, and I'm glad she did. We went without a lot, but it was well worth it.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 1:21 pm to Huey Lewis
Probably bc of all the people who are like the ones in this thread screaming "get to work!" Lol. Back when, women didn't have the opportunity to bring in a substantial amount of money. Now they do, so essentially they have to make a choice between a career and their kids. That's tough. And there are people who have opinions both ways.
I always felt very lucky; but I can see how a husband who carries a slight amount of jealousy, or a social circle of working female friends could make you second guess your decision.
I always felt very lucky; but I can see how a husband who carries a slight amount of jealousy, or a social circle of working female friends could make you second guess your decision.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 1:22 pm to Goldrush25
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What the frick does your wife do all day then?
Works out, Facebook, Pintrest and raises my two children.
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