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So America is experiencing a ton of inflated prices and common goods are skyrocketing in price.
If the wife wants to stay at home, how can a married couple survive in the weakened economy? What about with kids?
My husband and I have been married nine years starting 2015. In 2019, he challenged me to quit my job since I hated it. I became a housewife the next day. When I asked how the bills would get paid, he said, "Let me figure that out."
We were very poor. He drove a cab at the time. But it worked. I began to learn budgeting and frugality to compensate. But in a way, it cost money for me to work in the first place.
When I was working, he had to work only weekends because we shared a car. As soon as I quit, he was able to find the cab job and work more hours. That cab job seemed to have negative paychecks at times but we never missed a meal somehow. We stopped buying food out and I saved a lot through cooking meals at home.
I learned to shop secondhand for mos things, and grocery shop frugally. This was actually a lot of fun. I enjoy secondhand shopping a lot.
We do without a lot of vacations, outsourcing beauty treatments, and fancy gadgets. We do this because the lifestyle of me being at home brought much needed peace to our marriage.
Its really about what is important to you. We value the peace in our marriage over the material things we had to sacrifice along the way. And now Im grateful to be home with my baby girl. We have a son on the way. My husband got his CDL and tripled his income.
The energy he saves by me being at home goes into advancing his career and increasing his income. This is how a single income household can thrive even in an economy like this. We save on huge expenses by sharing a car, me not having to buy work clothes and lunches, not having to pay for child care. That in itself is my second income whether I develop a home based side business or not.
If the wife wants to stay at home, how can a married couple survive in the weakened economy? What about with kids?
My husband and I have been married nine years starting 2015. In 2019, he challenged me to quit my job since I hated it. I became a housewife the next day. When I asked how the bills would get paid, he said, "Let me figure that out."
We were very poor. He drove a cab at the time. But it worked. I began to learn budgeting and frugality to compensate. But in a way, it cost money for me to work in the first place.
When I was working, he had to work only weekends because we shared a car. As soon as I quit, he was able to find the cab job and work more hours. That cab job seemed to have negative paychecks at times but we never missed a meal somehow. We stopped buying food out and I saved a lot through cooking meals at home.
I learned to shop secondhand for mos things, and grocery shop frugally. This was actually a lot of fun. I enjoy secondhand shopping a lot.
We do without a lot of vacations, outsourcing beauty treatments, and fancy gadgets. We do this because the lifestyle of me being at home brought much needed peace to our marriage.
Its really about what is important to you. We value the peace in our marriage over the material things we had to sacrifice along the way. And now Im grateful to be home with my baby girl. We have a son on the way. My husband got his CDL and tripled his income.
The energy he saves by me being at home goes into advancing his career and increasing his income. This is how a single income household can thrive even in an economy like this. We save on huge expenses by sharing a car, me not having to buy work clothes and lunches, not having to pay for child care. That in itself is my second income whether I develop a home based side business or not.
