+1. My wife doesn't work. Ours is 2 and a half and she should be at home with him.
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This thread makes me realize how glad I am I busted my ass growing up to make shit happen for myself while a lot of my friends fucked off lol.
Do you have cable, internet, netflix? Cancel those. You're never home to enjoy them anyway, and you'll save money. Then she'll get a job.
well.....when it comes to marriage nothing is ever as simple as shutting off the cable :lol: In his first post he said she's working part time so she is contributing. One of my questions would be then how is the house work divided? If he's working 70 hours a week then I'd gamble to say that he's not doing a ton of the housework......and shouldn't be.....but if she's working part time and doing all the house work that tells me she's working a shit ton more hours than he is and most of her hours are shitty unpaid hours. :D
Since my wife got laid off last week I haven't cooked or done dishes once. I have said it many times before if I made enough to support our life style while also putting money in the bank I would rather she didn't work. I can definately afford the house, cars etc by myself but then she gets cabin fever when she can't just go on shopping sprees and belong to wine clubs, gyms, eyebrow places etc.
there's adjustments and sacrifices made for sure.......still though.....not as much as you think. We rarely are left "wanting" for anything but we are realistic about things. We're not buying any yachts in the near future but we have enough to live on and still have savings. Very few people on their death bed wish they would've worked more and even less want to see how much they have in their savings account. I've been thinking about going back to work the last month or so. We've talked about it a few times and we always decide it's better for me to be at home. We'll see......I will probably end up back at work at some point. Just not sure when or in what capacity. We both want a new house and it would be faster/easier to get this one fixed up to sell if I was working. Shit gets expensive in a hurry when you start doing real work to a house.
It would have been easier if she made as much as me and I got laid off. All I would do is reload bullets and shoot my bow lol. And yes shit does get expensive. We were about to order up all new siding, some windows and a new garage door. That is going to be put off until after the new baby now.
I still have about 5768 things that were put off until after the new baby......he's 2 now :lol: Congrats on the new baby....not sure I was aware you guys were expecting. When is it due?
I would also say that if at all possible make sure YOU'RE the one that quits working......hell of a lot more fun than letting them be the one that stops working. :D You really do get over being made fun of by your friends pretty quickly. When I first quit working it was slightly embarrassing when someone would ask me what I did for a living. I would tell them "stay at home" then always felt like I needed to explain I wasn't some piece of shit that lost their job and never got another one.....it was a decision we made to stop working. That went away....now when they ask I just say "nothing" and smile my ass off. :D