Posts by SimpleLove

Go without them and/or cut costs in every other area in your budget to make up for it.

Just wanted to give some insight because my brother sounds like your friend (but he doesn't have kids). There is a reason our family, close and extended, have all finally stopped being able to help. It was after years of giving and...

I'm just curious - Tell us about your keychain. How many keys do you carry around with you everywhere you go? I see moms at the playground with like 30 keys hanging from a clip and I wonder why they could possibly need that many keys!...

Honestly, it seems impossibly tight to me. Is the $1200 savings that you currently have, PLUS $210 leftover each month? Either way, once you're down to $0 in 6 months, how will you continue on?

I wasn't stating it as 100% truth/fact. There's no denying that would be an extremely difficult route.

I think those phases would be happening like 10 years apart from eachother so it wouldn't really be either or. I mostly just don't want anything 'sexy'/revealing in our house (we are bikini-free, for example)

I'm not sure, it's really up to the person reading/deciding and could vary. It would have to be very believable that you found God or whatever. What you're looking for is more of a philosophical exemption, not legal in all states, and...

How many do you have? Very few. Pretty sure people think my kids are disadvantaged. Are they sorted into categories or are you more of a toy box person? Terrified of toy boxes. They are categorized in baskets on shelves. Do...

Religious exemption is not really an option unless you've done NO vaxes. That is true about not naming a specific religion, worked for us in NY.

First of all, what you're describing sounds exactly like most families I've met in my life. Just sounds like a mainstream American family to me. It seems you're looking for reasons to dislike her, which I think happens often with...