Something that doesn't address age, dogs, ugly babies, or Walmart...
How about...
(and because numbered lists are STILL cool...)
1. Would/could you live with an in-law without committing murder?
2. What is the least amount of money per month you could live on without losing your mind?
3. What are you most frivolous about?
4. Who NOT ON THE NEST annoys you most on a regular basis, and what do you do about it?
EDIT : The "amount" is not meant to necessarily be a number. More of a comfort level. Don't feel like you have to post your take home pay.
Re: NEW TOPICS
1. Yes, but I wouldn't enjoy it.
2. Enough to cover the bills, I could live without a lot of "fun" money if I really had to. It wouldn't bother me too much.
3. Clothes. I will buy something in every shade the store has just because I can't decide on a color, so I feel like I should have them all. Same with shoes.
4. Nick Cannon. 20-something million people are watching you on TV, and you aren't even close to speaking proper English?! Bleh. I can't watch him.
1. Would/could you live with an in-law without committing murder? Yes. I could live with my MIL, because she is awesome. FIL would have to move out though. While I like him as a person, he can't keep his mouth shut about his uber-conservative stances on life. I can't keep my uber-liberal mouth shut when he starts talking.
2. What is the least amount of money per month you could live on without losing your mind? I've lived on a 1,500 a month in a high COL area. It's rough, but doable. I don't know what we'd be at as a family. DH would have a harder time with it than I would.
3. What are you most frivolous about? Buying things for DS.
4. Who NOT ON THE NEST annoys you most on a regular basis, and what do you do about it? My mom. I try to keep contact to a maximum of once a week. Thankfully, she lives across the country.
1. Would/could you live with an in-law without committing murder? depends on the IL. SIL totally. in fact i wish she could come live with dh and i. FIL. nope. he'd be dead meat. lock me up!
2. What is the least amount of money per month you could live on without losing your mind? oh god.... i don't even know. probably more than most people b/c we live in a high COL area. and i have a target obsession!
3. What are you most frivolous about? clothes. i have an obsession. dresses in particular!
4. Who NOT ON THE NEST annoys you most on a regular basis, and what do you do about it? dh's coworker.... i'm cutting him off. and sadly sometimes my mom. it's such a double edged sword b/c i love her more than anything and she is the best mom EVER, but she drives me crazy. she's been away for over a week and i miss her like crazy so i'm hoping to remember that when she gets back and be more patient!
1. Would/could you live with an in-law without committing murder? I could do it. Not because I have a great relationship with my in-laws but because my DH dealt with my mom living here for a little over a year. This makes him a saint in my book.
2. What is the least amount of money per month you could live on without losing your mind? Same as pp. I need bill, gas and food money. I could live without a lot of extra fun money.
3. What are you most frivolous about? Going out to eat.
4. Who NOT ON THE NEST annoys you most on a regular basis, and what do you do about it? Probably my mom. She is my BFF but sometimes I can't believe she goes day to day without someone holding her hand. She loses her keys on a daily basis, is always "making mistakes" on her bank account and lets not get into her choice in men. I usually don't do anything about it. I try to just be supportive.
Oh, and THANK YOU.
DD#1~8/17/96------DS~10/24/05
1. Would/could you live with an in-law without committing murder?my SIL, yes. meaning the woman my brother married. anyone on dh's side, um no. wait. i could prob live with FIL.
2. What is the least amount of money per month you could live on without losing your mind? oh geez...
3. What are you most frivolous about? eating out
4. Who NOT ON THE NEST annoys you most on a regular basis, and what do you do about it? bad drivers. and i honk at them.
1. I want to say that I could, but they do a lot of things that drive me nuts. If I could learn to stand up for myself I could do it no problem.
2. Enough to pay bills and provide food for our family. I have no idea what that number is though.
3. Things for Brooke. I have a sad Target obsession.
4. My mom. It is sad to say but she is very critical of me, even 12 hours away. Yesterday I got a 10 minutes lecture on how my house should be cleaner. She hasn't been here in months.
1. Not a chance in hell
2. I'm not sure... I guess just enough to cover the bills and groceries...
3. DS's clothes and shoes
4. My MIL and FIL. What do I do about it? I see them as little as possible. Usually when DH takes DS over to their house for the twice a week visits they insist on I try to find something I have to do so I can't go...
1. Would/could you live with an in-law without committing murder? My In laws yes, my parents hell no.
2. What is the least amount of money per month you could live on without losing your mind? ETA I am not going to have Punk judging me in this thread like she did Jessibell
3. What are you most frivolous about? Purses for me. Toys for DD.
4. Who NOT ON THE NEST annoys you most on a regular basis, and what do you do about it? A friend, complain to my nest friend about it lol.
To answer my own...
1. I can do it. I wouldn't recommend it. And I'm not sure how long the murder can be put off. It might be inevitable. Is feeding someone with a heart condition a lot of bacon murder?
2. 1K blogger prompted this one. I find myself strangely fascinated in a car-wreck kind of way. I've done the math though, and frankly, I could live a lot better on a lot less than she does. The only stumbling block is our health insurance, which is more per month than her whole life.
3. I'm frivolous about books and movies. And really good chocolate.
4. My FIL makes me angry without saying a word. Just seeing him makes my blood pressure go up. I've been handling it with passive aggression, but frankly, that's making my stress level get worse and worse. I may resort to sticking him with a pin every time he walks past. But then he'd bleed on my carpet. And my carpet is beige. It'll never come out. Sigh. Passive aggression it is.
1. I lived with MIL on two separate occasions: a year and a half the first time and less than a year the second time. I did not kill her, but I thought about it on occasion
2.enough to pay the mortgage and the bills (with a very small amount left over for coffee) (edited to take out numbers )
3. books - I want to have a library in my home someday so I buy books probably on a bi-weekly basis (yes, I read all the books I buy)
4. my students and their damn clicking pens (they know the wrath it brings)
1. Would/could you live with an in-law without committing murder? Maybe, it would depend on how long we had to live with them. they are not bad people they are just very controling.
2. What is the least amount of money per month you could live on without losing your mind? Whatever it would cost to keep a roof over our head and food in our bellies.
3. What are you most frivolous about? Buying things for DD.
4. Who NOT ON THE NEST annoys you most on a regular basis, and what do you do about it? My SIL definatly hands down. They treat her like she is 15 and she is 24. She is whiney and it makes me crazy. We have plans with my IL's this weekend and they may be late because SIL has a doc. appt. and they don't want to leave her behind might because she might miss out on something. They tell everyone that she is a manager of a target like she is some big wig exec there and she runs the front end cashiers. It is a job that I did in high school at a local food store. I finally told MIL the other day that she is 24 not 14 and let her learn to live on her own.
1. Would/could you live with an in-law without committing murder??hmmmm probably not. i can hardly live with my H.
2. What is the least amount of money per month you could live on without losing your mind? its the current amount we live on. which is nonyabiznazz
3. What are you most frivolous about? trinkets - stuff like tiny, odd toys?
4. Who NOT ON THE NEST annoys you most on a regular basis, and what do you do about it? my mom, and i just dont call her.
1. Would/could you live with an in-law without committing murder?
Well I did live with my MIL for quite a few months. I think she had a mental breakdown during that time, and while I didn't want to murder her, slapping her upside the head and committing to a mental instituition seemed like wonderful ideas.
2. What is the least amount of money per month you could live on without losing your mind?
Probably somewhere around $2800, with mortgage and bills that doesn't leave much else.
3. What are you most frivolous about?
Food! I hate to cook so if I'm in a funk we eat out a lot. We seriously don't have much to eat in our house right now.
4. Who NOT ON THE NEST annoys you most on a regular basis, and what do you do about it?
My sister. She is dating the biggest loser. He is a felon and has had a very hard time finding a job. He keeps getting fired for stealing. He has lied and done so many stupid things and yet my sister believes everything that he says. I tried talking to her about it but she is not willing to listen. So I sit back and b!tch about it to my mom, husband, and internet strangers.
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The Mouse ~ 06.12.08 | The Froggy ~ 02.23.11
1. Would/could you live with an in-law without committing murder? I barely know my ILs, so it's hard to say, but I'm going to go with no based on the little I know about them.
2. What is the least amount of money per month you could live on without losing your mind? I have no idea, but it would be a pretty big number.
3. What are you most frivolous about? Eating out and buying wine.
4. Who NOT ON THE NEST annoys you most on a regular basis, and what do you do about it? Hmm, not many people. A few people I work with think that because I'm not 55 and I don't have a penis, I don't know anything. Those people drive me nuts, particularly because I am the client in most situations. I don't hesitate to put them in their place, in the nicest way possible of course.
1. Would/could you live with an in-law without committing murder?
Depends on the in-law. DH's side nope, no way. My side, maybe.
2. What is the least amount of money per month you could live on without losing your mind?
I currently have the income of "unemployment". By myself I could survive but as a family I would be extremely unyhappy (and probably have to move in with the inlaws, which ends with me in jail.)
3. What are you most frivolous about?
That's a tough one. I am really frivolous when it comes to clothes for DD.
4. Who NOT ON THE NEST annoys you most on a regular basis, and what do you do about it?
My MIL, generally bite my lip.
EDIT : The "amount" is not meant to necessarily be a number. More of a comfort level. Don't feel like you have to post your take home pay.
As I said, an amount as in comfort level. I think three people gave numbers.
And who said I was trying to avert drama. I might just have been bored with the old drama.
Is that bad?
We do have some debt that I am trying to have paid off in the next 2 years.
lol. I didn't read the other replies before I posted. But now that I have, is anyone suprised that Punk was the first to snark about something?
Anyone? Bueller?
The Mouse ~ 06.12.08 | The Froggy ~ 02.23.11
1. Would/could you live with an in-law without committing murder? Maybe my BIL, but definitely not MIL/FIL.
2. What is the least amount of money per month you could live on without losing your mind? I have no idea. Maybe $3000?
3. What are you most frivolous about? Probably eating out...but we are working on that. I'd say in general I'm pretty good about not spending extra money on crap we don't really need.
4. Who NOT ON THE NEST annoys you most on a regular basis, and what do you do about it? A friend's husband. I try to avoid him but sometimes it is impossible. Luckily she is trying to divorce him. He is a total douchebag, he even called her a s.l.u.t. (can you type that normal on here?) in front of their children...one of whom is my goddaughter. So NOT ok.
Well then that question should have been multiple choice! If I had to live in an alternate world of 1k blogger lady, I could do it way better than she did. Yuck. In my world of saving for a house and paying down some old debt, I need more than 1k.
haha yes. but if you have debt then i understand needing that money to pay it off. im not saying i dont agree with you im just surprised that was your answer (or maybe more that you gave a number haha)
Lol that is why I edited mine. I am too busy today to fight with Punk over money.
ETA I only put a number because I saw she did and just followed like a sheep I didn't think it through first.
you're an idiot. who is fighting over money? i was poking fun at JB. maybe my answer is 50k/month or maybe its $500/month but since i didnt put an answer, quit ASSuming.
1. Would/could you live with an in-law without committing murder?Maybe? My mil is great but hovers a little too much.
2. What is the least amount of money per month you could live on without losing your mind? enough for us to go out every once in awhile and take a weekend away a couple times a year. other than that, we don't need much.
3. What are you most frivolous about? dd's clothing and accessories--if I like something, I buy it.
4. Who NOT ON THE NEST annoys you most on a regular basis, and what do you do about it?a woman at church who volunteers under my ministry. she creates chaos everywhere she goes and i'm constantly having to put out her fires. drives me insane.
Um don't make me go quote you last night when you said it ws sad and pathetic all BW could do was name call.
Is this really one person here?? This is a joke right? You're calling me names and just last night you said how low it is to do that.
I said I didn't have time to. Reading Comprehension Punky. I didn't say we were.
1. Would/could you live with an in-law without committing murder?
It would be really hard but it will probably come to that at some point in our lives. MIL would move in a heartbeat if we'd let her. She's already asked multiple times.
2. What is the least amount of money per month you could live on without losing your mind?
Sadly, it takes A LOT to pay our bills right now. I'm sort of losing my mind over how many bills we haven anyway. WTF were we thinking when we spent this much on our house and our cars? I'm constantly kicking myself over those decisions that we made before we had ds. It's frustraing to know how much we earn and how we spend almost all of that and have very little left over to save (beyond retirement savings which is taken out before we ever see it).
3. What are you most frivolous about?
IDK
4. Who NOT ON THE NEST annoys you most on a regular basis, and what do you do about it?
Hmmm....I don't get annoyed very easily. I have one braggy friend and inlaws who don't call before they come...both of which are mildly annoying.