Reply #19: If you can afford that life-style, more power to you.

[shraby]

I was a stay-at-home wife. I tended to all the everything to do with the household. Made out income taxes at tax time, paid the bills, did the shopping for all, saw to it the kids attended school like they should, mowed the lawn, raked the leaves, planted gardens, canned fruit and veggies for winter, saw to the children's safety during the summer months when there was no school, I had 4 children, the oldest was 4 1/2 when the 4th was born.

Made some of their clothes. My husband worked 9 hours a day..they always had the overtime which when the children were small amounted to 90 bucks a week..good pay in the 1960s. It worked good for us. When we bought our present home we bought with the idea of only one income. If I worked some it was all to the good..much better than buying and counting on two incomes to make payments...which many now do. It meant doing without sometimes but it never hurt us one bit. We just enjoyed any purchases of "luxuries" all that more..like a new t.v. when the old one went belly up.