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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. It’s been a busy day with work and I haven’t had the time to check this.

I don’t think my wife is high maintenance. She does like massages and looking nice, but she is not into fancy designer or materialistic things. She does have weekly massages because she has some genetic nerve issues that cause neck and lower back pain. The facials she gets are not necessary - apparently facials aren’t the same thing as body scrubs, etc., but she gets one of these done each week. Nails and toes done every two weeks. Hair done every 6 weeks.
I’m okay with these.

What I’m not okay with is the meal subscriptions that we hardly use. Hello Fresh sucks honestly and many of the shipments come with bad food. Daily Harvest is not worth the money for what you get. We can get cuts of meat cheaper at Whole Foods or Costco than Butcher Box. I would be fine if we cut these expenses that are about $1000/month.

We don’t live in DC and can afford our lifestyle on my salary alone. We do have a large savings accounts that we can dip into. My main concern still is the economy and going down to one income. We plan to have a second child fairly soon. We haven’t everything we need for infants but kids need a lot of stuff. I will try to talk to my wife again and get her to see we need to cut these items. [/quote]

I agree but I think if you want to cancel some or all of those services you would need to take the lead on grocery shopping and meal prepping. I've definitely relied on meal kits when I'm too busy to meal plan, it's more about the mental load/planning time needed. Maybe keep one service so you are only prepping 4 dinners q week and then the kit covers the other 3[/quote]

Please.  A SAHM of one baby doesn’t need a meal service.  She isn’t too busy to put together something simple for herself and DH. [/quote]

I mean... if you lucked out with easy babies that's great but when your baby is colicky screaming most of the day,[b] only held for naps, and waking every hour or two overnight for months[/b] it's a different story. I had one of each and yes it's a walk in the park with an easy baby. A complete nightmare with the other, I would've been lucky to even manage to put together a Hello Fresh meal. [/quote]

This is bad parenting.  You don’t allow it.  [/quote]

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