Post by karinothing on May 19, 2012 13:14:45 GMT -5
I will say that I have been sick at work and sick at home with a baby. Being sick at home with a baby is about a billion times worse. Especially when the baby is sick. At work I can slack off, at home I have to make sure someone stays alive. Sick mom + sick baby = the suck
This is random but a 32dd is not big!!! I always see people saying this on here and it drives me crazy. It's like they hear they are a dd and suddenly they need all this support and have fit issues. You have a small rib cage and normal size boobs.
It is to people who havent ever been a DD and only been a B. like you said, small ribcage. And most people with a small ribcage that size don't have DD boobs.
Exactly. People who are 32dd are thin/small people, and small/thin people do not normally have DD boobs. So I'd say it is big relative to the size of the person.
Being a SAHM is not a job, and I do not at all feel sorry for you. Even if you are staying home due to finances (cost of child care), the ability to SAH is a luxury.
Yes, we all have bad days, and those are acceptable complaints. However, the "it's a 24/7" job statements are just crap. Do you know how bad working moms must have it? Do you? I'm not a mom, so I can only imagine the weight of working and being a parent.
Obv not directed at the vast majority of SAHMs on this board. Or any that come to mind, in fact.
Taking care of a small child IS very very difficult and in some cases more difficult than being a working mom.
Staying at home may be a necessity to one and a luxury to another. Just like working is a luxury to some and a necessity for others.
There are martyrs on both sides of this issue and both are annoying, especially those who do not yet have children.
I have done both SAHM and a working Mom. IMO I don't think one is harder then the other it is just different thing's on either side that suck. Like limited time with my child because I am working. Or staying at home and not a lot of communication with other adults. They're pro's and con's to both period end of story just like anything in life.
If you have no children--really? parent's judge each other enough now we have people that have no idea what they're talking about judging?
Post by tammyswanson on May 19, 2012 18:12:36 GMT -5
There are things I cannot rationalize spending any money on:
Expensive cars (more than $7k), engagement rings, weddings (including for other people, like bridal showers), sports, Christmas, pricey shoes/handbags (more than $50), traveling in 1st class, and most expensive restaurants.
(It's not that I can't afford those things. I can.)
There are things I cannot rationalize spending any money on:
Expensive cars (more than $7k), engagement rings, weddings (including for other people, like bridal showers), sports, Christmas, pricey shoes/handbags (more than $50), traveling in 1st class, and most expensive restaurants.
(It's not that I can't afford those things. I can.)
There are things I cannot rationalize spending any money on:
Expensive cars (more than $7k), engagement rings, weddings (including for other people, like bridal showers), sports, Christmas, pricey shoes/handbags (more than $50), traveling in 1st class, and most expensive restaurants.
(It's not that I can't afford those things. I can.)
More than $7k is an expensive car and more than $50 is an expensive handbag or pair of shoes? You cannot rationalize spending any money on Christmas despite the fact that you can afford to do so? This all sounds crazy cheap.
There are things I cannot rationalize spending any money on:
Expensive cars (more than $7k), engagement rings, weddings (including for other people, like bridal showers), sports, Christmas, pricey shoes/handbags (more than $50), traveling in 1st class, and most expensive restaurants.
(It's not that I can't afford those things. I can.)
OMG, Sisu! You changed your mind and finally crossed over.
There are things I cannot rationalize spending any money on:
Expensive cars (more than $7k), engagement rings, weddings (including for other people, like bridal showers), sports, Christmas, pricey shoes/handbags (more than $50), traveling in 1st class, and most expensive restaurants.
(It's not that I can't afford those things. I can.)
OMG, Sisu! You changed your mind and finally crossed over.
There are things I cannot rationalize spending any money on:
Expensive cars (more than $7k), engagement rings, weddings (including for other people, like bridal showers), sports, Christmas, pricey shoes/handbags (more than $50), traveling in 1st class, and most expensive restaurants.
(It's not that I can't afford those things. I can.)
Yeah I'd love to hear exactly what you can afford...
I'm a 32AA, when I was pregnant and was pumping, I went all the way up to a........32A. I was very disappointed that I didn't get any bigger than that!
I'm currently SAH this school year with my twin boys, but have already signed my contract for next school year at my old job. (I took a leave of absence for the year.) SAH with twins is hard. And I suspect that working full-time at my job come August will also be hard, just in a different way.
The ability to call a sitter the morning of, and book them to watch your kid(s) all day, the morning you wake up sick is not nearly as easy as you think. Working parents stay home sick without kids because they already have childcare set up.
I think SAHP really overestimate how easy it is to call in sick and just relax. I've taken 2 sick days in 5 years where I wasn't stuck working at least part of the day at home. If I was a SAHP and I was truly that sick, my partner would call in sick to watch the kids. The same way one of us would call have to call in if we both worked and had a sick kid.
My DH works longer hours so the majority of the time I would get up with DS if he woke up in the middle of the night or something because I could theoretically take a nap when DS does (he still does at this point thank goodness). DH also travels some so at that point I have no one else to lean on. And he owns his own business and is busy enough trying to get everything done as it is so unless I'm on my deathbed, I deal and suck it up. My choice not his.
My unpopular opinion on MM is that I like nice cars. Once you get used to luxury, crappy cars feel like crappy cars.
*sits next to this lady*
Actually, crappy cars feel crappy to everyone. When you became rich you did not develop a special ability to distinguish car quality that the common folk don't possess.
I have cable ~ I hate screaming children in grocery stores and feel they should be banned. Better to buy new then used for most things. Greenback weddings Greenback showers Trucks are better and only drive nice cars now so they are SAFE and reliable. Probably rocking the boat by saying then half the people I know that are SAHM's shouldn't be since they are f'ed with $$ and cannot afford to do so.
Post by futurepivko on May 20, 2012 21:08:06 GMT -5
I keep coming up with more.
I don't get/like/understand when people put their first and middle name as their fb name. For example, (not any of my IRL friends, just made this up) instead of putting Holly Smith they put Holly Ann. It's not cute, it's dumb, if you are that worried about privacy don't have a fb.
I don't get/like/understand when people put their first and middle name as their fb name. For example, (not any of my IRL friends, just made this up) instead of putting Holly Smith they put Holly Ann. It's not cute, it's dumb, if you are that worried about privacy don't have a fb.
I don't do it to be "cute." I do this mainly so random Nesties/GBNCers (whatever we are called now) don't know my real name when they see my pic as a mutual friend with other Nesties that are friends with. So yes, its a privacy thing but since I post here enough, I'd rather people not be able to find out my real name just because they are friends with one of my friends.
I don't want to give up FB because you think I'm dumb. Thanks anyway
I don't get/like/understand when people put their first and middle name as their fb name. For example, (not any of my IRL friends, just made this up) instead of putting Holly Smith they put Holly Ann. It's not cute, it's dumb, if you are that worried about privacy don't have a fb.
I don't do it to be "cute." I do this mainly so random Nesties/GBNCers (whatever we are called now) don't know my real name when they see my pic as a mutual friend with other Nesties that are friends with. So yes, its a privacy thing but since I post here enough, I'd rather people not be able to find out my real name just because they are friends with one of my friends.
I don't want to give up FB because you think I'm dumb. Thanks anyway
If you take a child to a restaurant (I don't care how casual or how nice) and your child make a mess, you should tip your server at least 20%, probably 25%.
Also, you should tip a few dollars when you get car side to go service.