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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
So my Cuisinart kettle got here. I think I am in love with an inanimate object....
(sighs)
I am heaven.
I know when we have kids I won't be able to buy as much of this type of stuff and it will be totally worth it but right now I kind of like having the income to be a little silly.
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Indulge yourself and have fun! Don't look too far into the future, it is too unstable and unpredictable.
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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
120 tea bags for about $1.50 USD.
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I saw tea bags only once. £6~$9 -100.
I am too lazy to be bothered anyway.
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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Why do we want kids today? (And I'm not advocating NOT having kids. I'm just asking why.) It's something to think about...  |
My mother gained 13kg after her first child, 5 or 7 year later she had a stillborn, after that giving birth to me was a mortal risk and she went for it. Today my brother and I abandoned her. My parents moved to Israel when they were old and my mother was disabled. They did it for us to have better future and to be with us in future, because they knew we would move anyway and they wanted to be near.
I am in the UK, my brother and his family are in Canada. My parents are alone in Israel. Despite everything, we are everything for them, we are their life. The only thing my mother and father regret is not having one more child. My mother is all about children. She loves!!! my wife. When she realised I have married my angel, she got another daughter for herself, one she longed to have all her life (it didn’t work as well with my brother’s wife because she belives my brother is not happy with his wife). I mean my wife, 8 years older, divorced, 5000km from Israel, stole me from my mother's house forever and supporting me in not having children (mother never believe me when I told her that I won’t have kids since I was 19 years old)! Her son is happy? That's it. That's all that matters.
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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Having kids was something we were 'supposed to do,' just like going to college. No one ever questioned either of them. No one ever asked me if I wanted to go to college. It was simply assumed that I would. Even I assumed I would. I really didn't want to, but it wasn't something I could voice. Same with getting married, and the same with having kids. It was what was 'done' in my parent's world. It was never questioned.
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I am too selfish to have kids. I have not grown up myself yet. I have been very open about it with my future wife (just an online friend back then) about it when I realised she feels something odd towards me. I thought it would scare her off, because I am used to think that women want kids. Like, all women. Examples? Everybody around me. My parents for one, my brother too. He doesn’t understand why live at all if you don’t want to have children. He has got 3 daughters.
However, I am all against traditions of the
'supposed to do,' kind.
Even when I was 10 years old, I could not grasp why my brother asks my parents permission to marry. I didn't even know how babies are made or that males and females have different body parts in trousers, but I was questioning this. I thought: my brother have to live with his wife, not my parents...
I was fighting any
'supposed to do,' from childhood. I guess it was one of the reasons why I would not survive in the xUSSR. Why should I join boyscouts (pioneers)? I don't see anything interesting about it. You must! Why should I come every Wednesday and clean up streets from rubbish or snow for free? You must! Why should I join Komsomol???? I don't like anything about the party! Shhhhhh. You must, or else....you won't be admitted to the University, you won't get job, you won't...
You have to finish University, you must have a degree.
You have to marry when you are 21-23.
You have to marry Jewish girl.
You have to have children.
I have studied in two Universities. Haven't finish either. I don't have a degree!
I married at 30.
I, living in Israel, married a non-Jewish "girl"
I married for the first and the last time(here I am traditionalist
) on a woman older than me, who is a "second hand" divorced woman. Who doesn't want to have children.
Despicable.
I still have arguments with my parents when we chat on Skype about
"we are supposed to do it" Father, mother you are not supposed to do anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "ARGHHHHH....."
We just agree to disagree
Ahmad Hampton Breakfast tea, white yogurt, water...while I have been typing.