When being a SAHM isn't a choice

Re: When being a SAHM isn't a choice

• jlp0528 member

  July 2014

  Basically this is us. I've been working to try and secure a teaching position but it's incredibly difficult to unless you day to day sub in a lot of the districts locally before you can even get interviewed. So I stayed home this past year and very well may next year.

  
  BFP: 1/17/13 EDD: 9/20/13 Dalenna Rose Born: 40 wks 4 days 9/24/13
  

  
  
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• michelle7482 member

  July 2014

  I got laid off when DD1 and we decided I would stay home. I didn't want my kids in daycare so we made it work. My H makes good money, we make ends meet and have a nice savings in case he ever loses his job but we certainly make sacrifices! I'll definitely go back to work once my kids are in school.

  

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• DaisyZH member

  July 2014

  This is us as well, my salary would have had me barely ahead with daycare costs when I had DS but now with two it wouldn't even be a possibility. It's funny how many people assume we must be well off to have me stay home.

  
  

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• redfallon member

  July 2014

  Before we got married, we discussed me staying home. Besides wanting to do it, we calculated the cost versus daycare, and with what I was making at my old job we would have spent all of it except maybe $5k a year on daycare. That wasn't worth it to us. Then DH got a new job and we moved to Austin. The job I got here paid a lot less than my job in Dallas, so it wasn't even a question of me staying home. Daycare providers make more than I did at that job, even though it wasn't a bad job (an office job at an insurance agency).  I've been SAH since a month before Emily was born.
  

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