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There are a zillion tiny homes for sale cheap in every small town in the country. Some of the cheap ones are not that tiny, either. Here is one, 1309 square feet, $45,000, in my wife's original home town:
We don't need to build any more tiny homes. There they are, for the asking.
Of course, it's not in Seattle or San Francisco. You get what you pay for.
Exactly the type of small home I'll be looking for, and intend to find when I'm ready. For one person, you really don't need larger than that. In the meantime, I've been saving every month for future expenses, property taxes, etc. And those type homes are available in many states, not just IN. You just have to plan ahead. I know my budget, and what my price range for such a home will be, and the location I'm interested in living.
Actually there is virtually no reason to buy one of those fancy tiny homes you see on the TV shows. There are lots of small RVs available for very little money.
It doesn’t really matter in the context of the article, as it’s about middle class people who are getting to old age with inadequate funds (like my mom and also most likely myself) the poor will remain with the degree of help they’ve always had.
I don’t get the “reward†concept. My mother’s assisted living is being paid for by Medicaid after she blew through her savings in a few years once moved in, was $4500 a month then and $9000 a month now). So I guess that’s a boatload of “free stuffâ€. Guess she deserves to live in the street to teach her a lesson for being a secretary and not a CEO?
Of course you don't. If Medicaid were not available, would you let your mother just live in the street? God bless her heart, I don't think she's the one that needs to be taught a lesson.
Of course you don't. If Medicaid were not available, would you let your mother just live in the street? God bless her heart, I don't think she's the one that needs to be taught a lesson.
I live in a one-bedroom apartment with 2 flights of stairs, my mother can't do stairs and needs daily medical/wound care. I work full time. I did have her with me for about 2 weeks when I brought her over from Philly after she was discharged from rehab, and we had to hire aides to help her to the bathroom at night because she couldn't get up by herself and called me on my cell phone every 2 hours all night long. We had to pay for another shift while I was at work. It was close to $350 a day for just those 2 shifts, which neither of us could afford for long. I don't know where she'd be if there were no Medicaid, but it wouldn't have been possible for her to stay with me. the days where the little woman didn't work and was home all day and could be a full time caregiver ended long ago.
So please tell me, what is this lesson I need to learn?
I live in a one-bedroom apartment with 2 flights of stairs, my mother can't do stairs and needs daily medical/wound care. I work full time. I did have her with me for about 2 weeks when I brought her over from Philly after she was discharged from rehab, and we had to hire aides to help her to the bathroom at night because she couldn't get up by herself and called me on my cell phone every 2 hours all night long. We had to pay for another shift while I was at work. It was close to $350 a day for just those 2 shifts, which neither of us could afford for long. I don't know where she'd be if there were no Medicaid, but it wouldn't have been possible for her to stay with me. the days where the little woman didn't work and was home all day and could be a full time caregiver ended long ago.
So please tell me, what is this lesson I need to learn?
Your mother has my sympathy. My mother is relatively young (she's only 94) and all I can say is I would do whatever it took to take care of her and/or my step-father. Ditto for my older siblings.
Of course you don't. If Medicaid were not available, would you let your mother just live in the street? God bless her heart, I don't think she's the one that needs to be taught a lesson.
Please stop trashing people who don't agree with you. You've done it to me, now you're doing it to ocnjgirl. It's not nice.
Your mother has my sympathy. My mother is relatively young (she's only 94) and all I can say is I would do whatever it took to take care of her and/or my step-father. Ditto for my older siblings.
Can you bemore specific? Tell me exactly how I could have taken care of her, in the circumstances I outlined. It’s very easy to be self righteous and say you would do anything it took, but what it would have taken is caregivers and medical care and the money to afford it as well as the ability for me to give up my apartment and find something bigger to pay for it. So if that money does not exist and my mother does not qualify for any services which she did not then What is this magic formula you would have had me use to take care of her, Again in the exact circumstances I outlined.
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