Both parents having to work with kids.....
An article brought back memories of many conversations over the years on this subject I've had with folks.....
Personally, I remember when we moved into our second home in a newer neighborhood.... Leanne was a stay at home mom raising our daughter... while the rest of the neighborhood was eerily quiet all day ... both parents working to afford the new house, two new cars in the driveway, etc, etc... somewhere around 4-5 pm, all the families began to appear... ( if you don't count all the kids coming home to an empty home after school).....
Additionally .... I've had dozens of conversations with folks that worked for me complaining of not making enough $$ to be able to live .... now....this is a complicated subject... and one that gets many emotionally charged.... The vast majority of these folks had 2+ vehicles...2+phones...TVs... etc.. you get the picture.... The more questions I asked, the more flags that went up.... ... Guess living like our parents did, which was good enough then, isn't good enough now...
Then there is the issues where we create our own dilemmas.... dropping out of school... not getting a degree when we could have ... having kids at too young of an age.. having kid(s) when we weren't financially ready..etc, etc.etc .. point being.... self inflicted circumstances... .. then, both parents having to work to pull themselves out of a hole dug by lack of planning...... the excuse being it's so expensive nowadays...
Point being ... back to basics.... sometimes we forget frugality is the solution .....
Or.. WTH ... work till 70, live in 2000 sq feet per family member, drive a new leased car every 36 mos..........
Personally, I remember when we moved into our second home in a newer neighborhood.... Leanne was a stay at home mom raising our daughter... while the rest of the neighborhood was eerily quiet all day ... both parents working to afford the new house, two new cars in the driveway, etc, etc... somewhere around 4-5 pm, all the families began to appear... ( if you don't count all the kids coming home to an empty home after school).....
Additionally .... I've had dozens of conversations with folks that worked for me complaining of not making enough $$ to be able to live .... now....this is a complicated subject... and one that gets many emotionally charged.... The vast majority of these folks had 2+ vehicles...2+phones...TVs... etc.. you get the picture.... The more questions I asked, the more flags that went up.... ... Guess living like our parents did, which was good enough then, isn't good enough now...
Then there is the issues where we create our own dilemmas.... dropping out of school... not getting a degree when we could have ... having kids at too young of an age.. having kid(s) when we weren't financially ready..etc, etc.etc .. point being.... self inflicted circumstances... .. then, both parents having to work to pull themselves out of a hole dug by lack of planning...... the excuse being it's so expensive nowadays...
Point being ... back to basics.... sometimes we forget frugality is the solution .....
Or.. WTH ... work till 70, live in 2000 sq feet per family member, drive a new leased car every 36 mos..........
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