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Financially - How did you make the decision to SAHM?
What was the process you went through to realistically weigh if it was feasible? I realize sometimes it?s simply obvious...but I?m wondering how you weighed your budget and more importantly what number you were OK with as your leftover/disposable/or saved income? Did you feel ok being close to paycheck to paycheck or did you feel like you need a good chunk of ?leftover? funds each month to feel secure? I couldn?t do paycheck to paycheck...but some people can, and I?m curious about how you came to that conclusion....
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Re: Financially - How did you make the decision to SAHM?
We have a lifestyle. It's not meager, but it's simple.
We placed a lot of weight on our priorities, made sure those were covered and then got rid of the things that weren't worth sacrificing me SAH.
We like to have "a lo
We took DH's income, deducted our expenses and looked at the number we got and decided we were okay with it. It still left 15% to savings each month, we have. Moderate amount for entertainment/fun money and we don't live paycheck to paycheck. And we do
For us, we really didn't have to worry about the financial aspect too much. Out here, paying for two in daycare full time is super expensive. When we had two kids, it didn't make a whole lot of financial sense for me to continue working bec
it was easy for us--we planned all our bills on one income so we would never be forced in a job we hated/had to worry if someone got laid off.
i don't feel we need thousands of dollars of leftover cash every month. obviously when
When we first got married, my husband was still in college and we knew there was a good chance I would SAH when we had children. We bought our house based on one income- you never know when someone is going to lose a job, so even if I planned to work,
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I'm the opposite of most on here in that I can't afford to work, which is why I SAH. Daycare for even one kid where we were living when my first was born was a few hundred a month more than I was taking home. DH travels frequently for work and even whe
Flame me if you will, but we just jumped into it. We planned to have me going back to work, but DD was pretty high needs, I was terrified of our breastfeeding relationship falling apart because of us being apart, daycare was expensive and we deci
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Hi,
Our son is now 10. I had always wanted to be a SAHM, but hubby and I could not agree on living on his income. For the last 6 years. I was working for a company that I was overworked and underappreciated. I was doing both accounting and outsid
We looked at our lifestyle and where we could cut back on extras, then we looked at our bills and how much we need to pay them. We pay our savings first, so our take home pay is the only thing we brought into this part of the equation. We put about 10%
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