If you are a housewife, how much does your spouse make?

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Anonymous wrote:How many couples do you know who don't have kids and the wife doesn't work? They're obviously out there, but this seems like a real outlier situation. I know tons of DINKS. No stay at home wives.

You must not live in Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Potomac, McLean, Great Falls, or the very ritzy sections of DC.

I live in Bethesda, on a street with homes over 7 figures and have never seen a housewife. SAHMs, yes. Housewives, nope.

Or maybe I do and have subconsciously never engaged with them because I cant imagine an intelligent phrase could come out of their mouth. Maybe they are just invisible to me?

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I'm a stay at home mom with three little kids and my DH makes over $400k. My '"business" is buying a trashed property, fixing it up,and then selling it for a nice profit. I've done it twice in the last four years and I've added a lot to our net worth. But with 3 little ones I'm going to take a break!

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Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised at people who are not working when DH earns 250k or less.

DH earns 1-2m. I stopped working when he hit 800k. We had two kids then. Now we have 3 kids.

If DH earned less, I would have continued to work.

Lol! I agree. My DH makes 400k and that's definitely not enough for me to quit. However, I make 275k, so I'm not exactly going to easily go from netting after retirement 36k per month on down to 21k/mo. An extra 15k/mo is a massive lifestyle adjustment. It is the difference between Telluride vs Liberty or Serengeti vs Animal Kingdom.

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Anonymous wrote:Housewife? What is this, 1955?

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SAHM and my husband whomis an investment banker makes just over $5 million the last few years. I used to work but choose not to now so that I can s-end more time with our kids and watch more tv.

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Anonymous wrote:Housewife? What is this, 1955?

Yeah, it’s now called sahm silly. Much more progressive.

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Anonymous wrote:PP1 : My DH makes about $250,000. Our kids are grown. I have been at home for 26 years. No plans to work outside the home.

PP2: What about after you divorce?

DP here. Obviously, the PP! who is home for 26 years is much appreciated by her family and so she is confident that she will continue to be appreciated and divorce is not in her future. Now, PP2 sounds like a bitchy person who is most likely to remain single or be divorced and probably is not very appreciated either. I am guessing that her HHI is nowhere near PP1 either.

It is so interesting how telling these random comments by people are.

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Anonymous wrote:How many couples do you know who don't have kids and the wife doesn't work? They're obviously out there, but this seems like a real outlier situation. I know tons of DINKS. No stay at home wives.

You must not live in Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Potomac, McLean, Great Falls, or the very ritzy sections of DC.

I live in Bethesda, on a street with homes over 7 figures and have never seen a housewife. SAHMs, yes. Housewives, nope.

Or maybe I do and have subconsciously never engaged with them because I cant imagine an intelligent phrase could come out of their mouth. Maybe they are just invisible to me?

Who would want to engage with you? You don't seem to be like a person who is civil or open-minded and neither can you spell.What are you? A poorly educated live-in domestic staff in Bethesda?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised at people who are not working when DH earns 250k or less.

DH earns 1-2m. I stopped working when he hit 800k. We had two kids then. Now we have 3 kids.

If DH earned less, I would have continued to work.

Lol! I agree. My DH makes 400k and that's definitely not enough for me to quit. However, I make 275k, so I'm not exactly going to easily go from netting after retirement 36k per month on down to 21k/mo. An extra 15k/mo is a massive lifestyle adjustment. It is the difference between Telluride vs Liberty or Serengeti vs Animal Kingdom.

What do you do to earn $275k?

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I am a SAHM with two kids. DH earns 350K. I do quite a fair bit of homemaker stuff - cooking, laundry, cleaning, finances, chauffeuring kids, taking care of my ILs, volunteering at school, helping with my kids activities etc., but I also have a lot of help too.

I employ someone to take care of my yard, someone to do handyperson maintainence of the house, and a cleaning lady that comes to my house twice a week, I have a part-time prep lady that comes to my house every 2 week to do prep work for food for me (I also make meals for my ILs), an attendant that looks after the needs of my ILs and I have another lady that helps me when I entertain.

I have much admiration for moms who work out of the house, send their kids to daycare, take care of elderly parents, with less money and no help. My DH usually home by 7 pm and he does not travel a lot for work.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised at people who are not working when DH earns 250k or less.

DH earns 1-2m. I stopped working when he hit 800k. We had two kids then. Now we have 3 kids.

If DH earned less, I would have continued to work.

Because some of us don't need a fancy house or cars and manage our money well so we can comfortably live off $200K.

I used to earn 200k by myself as a single. Can’t fathom supporting an entire family on that.

wow. expand your imagination a little! We do quite well on that. $900k house is paid off. have investments worth $2mil. DH is ret. AF now GS-15. We aren't suffering in poverty! We pretty much have all we want or need.

Please ignore the idiots who can't imagine raising a family on 200k, the truth is that the multi millionaires above them can't fathom how these people manage without a private jet, 4 vacation homes and cooks, maids etc. There is ALWAYS a level above you, it's important to keep things in perspective and not sound like a jerk.

+ 1 My Dad made $125k (today's dollars) at the peak of his career and Mom never worked. On that we had a nice house, enjoyable vacations, and fully paid college educations for the three of us kids.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many couples do you know who don't have kids and the wife doesn't work? They're obviously out there, but this seems like a real outlier situation. I know tons of DINKS. No stay at home wives.

You must not live in Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Potomac, McLean, Great Falls, or the very ritzy sections of DC.

I live in Bethesda, on a street with homes over 7 figures and have never seen a housewife. SAHMs, yes. Housewives, nope.

Or maybe I do and have subconsciously never engaged with them because I cant imagine an intelligent phrase could come out of their mouth. Maybe they are just invisible to me?

7 figures? Like $1,000,000? That reminds me of Dr Evil's ransom demand!

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Anonymous wrote:I know exactly one housewife. She has oodles if family money. The husband is a professor with quite a bit of family money himself.

You know more than 1. Sometimes they have code words like "I work part time as a consultant, from my home". Those are housewives.

Well, maybe. But I also work part time as a consultant, from my home, and I sometimes teach a class here and there. I am 100% not a housewife.

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Anonymous wrote:DH is retired so he makes zero now. One kid/tween in private school.

OMG you’re in every thread. Maybe a job would be fun for you?

Well, you are everywhere commenting on my posts. Can’t find anything better to do or post about!?!

Another one so sick of you, weird family with one middle school age kid and retired 50 something DH (sure I could find more info in another thread of the 50000 times you've posted this)..

Youre weird and old, bye.

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Anonymous wrote:My DH makes about $250,000. Our kids are grown. I have been at home for 26 years. No plans to work outside the home.

What about after you divorce?

A SAHM is better off as over 10 years marriages get the Social Security, half off all assets, plus maybe alimony and most likely house if he cheats.

What about pride and self-sufficiency?? None of that? OK then.