What is your income to allow one parent to stay at home?
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Anonymous
| For those of you with one parent staying home, what is your income? What did you cut out to make one income work? |
Anonymous
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$100,000
We have one car. No fancy clothes. No vacations. |
Anonymous
| $90k. Own TH, 1 van & 1 suv. Local vacations. Limits eating out. One activity per child. Public schools. |
Anonymous
| 140. Simple cell phone, cut cable (use Netflix, amazon prime),one car payment,utilize parks, museums etc for affordable outings with children. Also big ticket, housing, purchased reasonable house, nothing too fancy but meets our needs, that was priced lower than what we qualified for/could afford. If you don't fall into trap of keeping up with Joneses I think it can be very doable in this area with less income than this board may have you believe. |
Anonymous
| It would be helpful if people include city they live in, $100k in Gainesville vs $100k in DC vs $100k in Richmond allow different QOL. |
Anonymous
| I stayed home at $85k. It is now $120k. |
Anonymous
| 300k. |
Anonymous
| $375K. It's hard to live comfortably, in the DC area, with an income under $200k. |
Anonymous
 FFS. Spare me.
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Anonymous
Agreed. I am PP at 140k. 3 kids, immediate suburb of DC. |
Anonymous
NP - if you're keeping up with the Joneses, sure. We are a little over $200k, have massive student loan debt, daycare, and a DC proper mortgage payment. Still doing fine because I don't care a lick about what our friends have. |
Anonymous
| 150. metro accessible MD. no debt, no fancy house or cars. 2 kids. |
Anonymous
Did I write this while otherwise engaged? My numbers exactly. |
Anonymous
Biggest obstacle is adequate housing with decent commute and good schools. It's not fancy cars or handbags that cause the problems. It's wanting central a/c and enough bedrooms and bathrooms for a family of 4. |
Anonymous
Silver Sprint? |