Comments on: How to Live On One Income

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:53:38 +0000

sorry for spelling mistakes key board not wanting to type certain letters

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:51:39 +0000

Location I live in northren british columbia in a smaller town to so a house that is one million in vancouver is about 100,000 here hand wages are good. we would love to live in a bigger place bug wages seem to go down and expenses go up. I seem to br living in one of the last area it seems in north america that one parent can make enough and meet expenses have hope of owning a house and make about 40 grand a year . Their are quite a few stay at home moms here or moms that work only part time.
Im not going to lie it is still very tight with hydro gas and food going up still. I think I might be the last generation that will even have it has an option at leat in the middle class area.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:22:32 +0000

I agree , I casualy work but primaraly stay at home more for his benfit.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:18:35 +0000

The Canadian Who crosses the border is really rare and the one case I know of our health care system covered it because there was no were near by that did what she needed . I personaly love our health care system. When I had my C-section the last thing on my mind was how much it would cost. I was absoloutly floored by how much it would have costed in america when my friends cross border told me. Every one gets equal treatment regardless of income . Private is ok If you make alot of money , have benifits at work or are healthy , But nobody goes bankrupt from needing surgury or having a baby. Big private companys will show the odd story of a person who crossed the border but think about it , its about money and then they would only be able to charge what the goerment is willing to pay, and the doctors are still paided ery well here but not the insane pay that you guys pay from your personal pockets from And I did remember an artical i read a bout a year ago were older peolpe would spend and hour or two trailing to canada or mexico to but their drugs cheaper here.

But dont take this personaly I just love my country and i belive in the system , most of our medical problems are from not having enough doctors that we hae to imagrate alot of them from south africa, And they are very good. Very good artical on stay at home parents by the way.

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By: tracy

tracy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:39:27 +0000

fter getting married and having 3 boys the guily was getting to me. My hubby and I both made over 65G a year. We planned it, paid off our cars and bills in a couple of months, and you know what we have found out after a year of being a stay at home mom? Nothing has changed, except we have less garbage (seriously) because we are not wasting our money on crap or laziness. It is far cheaper to plan meals and family outings than spendingt too much money on last minute food and fun. We even made it to Disney for 2 weeks this summer, that was our first vacation. It’s all in the planning….

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By: Rob in Madrid

Rob in Madrid — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:52:03 +0000

very interesting discussion, I’ve been emailing my niece encouraging her to spend time on the various blogs. She’s really discouraged about debt and money. I told her blogs (like this) have been a life changing experience for me, not just for the ideas, but also to know your not alone. I sometimes shake my head at how we could have wasted so many years then I read blogs of people who’ve done the same and I don’t feel quite so alone.

@ Marci I assume that you have a paid for place. I do agree one can live very comfortably on much less money, particulaly when your not up to your ears in debt.