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Reasonable financial decision when considering the opportunity cost? Yes.
Sacrifice? BS, talk to me about sacrifice when you have to make a choice of buying food or hoping to hold off the repo man on the car note.
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Originally Posted by newtovenice
Yet another article about how being a parent is icky and material stuff is way better.
Not getting where you got "being a parent is icky" from someone deciding to have 2 kids instead of 3. People make this decusion all the time for a variety of reasons. If they thought parenting was "icky" they presumably would have chisen to remain childless or stopped after 1 once they understood what they were in for.
Oh geez. Glad this thread was revived- I might never have read that lovely story otherwise. (insert rolling eyes)
She doesn't get to make the choice to buy a huge luxury, fully equipped dream house, then whine about not being able to have that 3rd kid. This is written in such a way that it's coming off as if it's supposed to be a noble sacrifice, but really it's just a person making a choice she later regrets. In reality, there is presumably nothing (but perhaps her husband) standing in her way of buying a nice, not quite "fully loaded" house and having another child. Has she never heard of moderation? Really? She's worried about "ripping" her children away from the dream house they have known? That's so ridiculous it's almost funny (but really more sad).
I really don't get this. At all. This is not a sacrifice. This is a choice to live a higher end lifestyle rather than have another child. Perfectly fine choice, just don't act like you're a martyr who has to live with this reality. There ARE other choices. I agree with the poster from a few years ago who said that they must be living paycheck to paycheck if they really can't budget to afford a 3rd child. It sounds like they have planned well to get their house. Surely they could plan well for others things they wanted.
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