Happy End of Summer (for those that celebrate) !!

YellowSnow

YellowSnow

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Praise Allah summer is over and the kids are back in school! I fucking hate summer and all parenting chaos that it creates. For those of you childless cat ladies not in the know, summer kid child care scheduling (i.e., all the different camps, etc) is a huge pain in the anose hole.

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I like the summer. The weather is nice.
My wife stays at home with the kids so we don't have to deal with trying to find babysitting options all summer long. I highly recommend this arrangement.
 
BleachedAnusDawg said:
I like the summer. The weather is nice.
My wife stays at home with the kids so we don't have to deal with trying to find babysitting options all summer long. I highly recommend this arrangement.
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The trad wife lifestyle in this economy? Christ.
 
BleachedAnusDawg said:
YellowSnow said:
BleachedAnusDawg said:
I like the summer. The weather is nice.
My wife stays at home with the kids so we don't have to deal with trying to find babysitting options all summer long. I highly recommend this arrangement.
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The trad wife lifestyle in this economy? Christ.
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We don't take trips to Denmark with the kids, but the tradeoff is worth it at this time.
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@MrsSnow has expensive tastes and I'm just a pour that can't bring home that level of bacon. It's hard.
That being said, looking across my peer group, it's pretty hard to find the 1 income family these days. It's just not as common as it used to be. My mom was stay at home until we all went off to college.
 
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Cat lady/resident Swifty here. Probably the best part of being so with this shit is I can usually not use any vacation during the summer and just enjoy things locally and then take actual vacation and go places in September-December when they are super cheap and not crowded because kids just went back to school.
 
Go make enough money so that your wife can stay at home and take care of them then?
There's a fucking school strike going on where I live and I don't even care.
 
YellowSnow said:
haie said:
Go make enough money so that your wife can stay at home and take care of them then?
There's a fucking school strike going on where I live and I don't even care.
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We got A LOT of overhead, bud.
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Yeah I'm familiar with the "We have a massive house in Happy Valley with a bunch of kids and now we both have to hustle until we're 70" couples.
It's really great to be around that and hear that kind of complaining.
 
haie said:
YellowSnow said:
haie said:
Go make enough money so that your wife can stay at home and take care of them then?
There's a fucking school strike going on where I live and I don't even care.
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We got A LOT of overhead, bud.
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Yeah I'm familiar with the "We have a massive house in Happy Valley with a bunch of kids and now we both have to hustle until we're 70" couples.
It's really great to be around that and hear that kind of complaining.
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Oh we'll be retired by our early 60's god willing. And our housing cost is pretty low relative to household income in spite of living in an expensive zip code. Just saying life starts to get expensive when you factor in 2 kids, college savings, travel sports ball, 4 x skiing season passes, all the gear, fancy vacations, etc.
 
YellowSnow said:
haie said:
YellowSnow said:
haie said:
Go make enough money so that your wife can stay at home and take care of them then?
There's a fucking school strike going on where I live and I don't even care.
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We got A LOT of overhead, bud.
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Yeah I'm familiar with the "We have a massive house in Happy Valley with a bunch of kids and now we both have to hustle until we're 70" couples.
It's really great to be around that and hear that kind of complaining.
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Oh we'll be retired by our early 60's god willing. And our housing cost is pretty low relative to household income in spite of living in an expensive zip code. Just saying life starts to get expensive when you factor in 2 kids, college savings, travel sports ball, 4 x skiing season passes, all the gear, fancy vacations, etc.
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If I still lived in Oregon, which I was forced out when I got married, I'd probably be living in some shit hole like Lebanon or Damascus so I can both talk shit to quooks at Bent Shovel Brewing and not kill myself in the hamster wheel for the next 30.
 
There's more than one way to skin a cat here @haie . It's just a matter of priorities.
For our family to live off my income alone, we'd be living in Redmond, OR and not Bend. MrsSnow would be driving a gently used Libaru instead of a new Audi. Family vacation would be the Oregon Coast vs Copenhagen and Tahiti (we've done both in 2025). I'd be listening to music on shitty Sonos system like @CFetters_Nacho_Lover instead of spending my all my dough on vinyl.
Hamster wheel of death it is for the Yella Clan!!
 
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