Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2014 0:21:45 GMT
My family really needs: a bed for each child, private space for their toileting and bathing needs, enough space for us all to sit to dinner at once, a place to cook and store any food we need to eat healthfully, a place to greet visitors without being ashamed, and a place where we can recreate as a family/ play games/chat/lounge
We as a household need to put our dollars toward an investment so we have to look similar to the neighbourhood without spending more than 30% of our annual income on it or it's upkeep. We need it to be fashionable enough that if a buyer walked thru today, they wouldn't giggle or scoff. We need a nice enough place that a bank will continue our mortgage and the insurance money sees it as worth the insurance we must pay to have people even walk by the house, let alone visit. And tidy enough, the children's aid won't remove the kids for cause.
We actually want to earn enough to keep it over our heads without having to work 16 hour days or more. So we can actually see our house without our eyes half closed and our kids and spouse still know more about us than our name. And a picture left on the mantel gathering dust.
The rest is nothing but greed.
We as a household need to put our dollars toward an investment so we have to look similar to the neighbourhood without spending more than 30% of our annual income on it or it's upkeep. We need it to be fashionable enough that if a buyer walked thru today, they wouldn't giggle or scoff. We need a nice enough place that a bank will continue our mortgage and the insurance money sees it as worth the insurance we must pay to have people even walk by the house, let alone visit. And tidy enough, the children's aid won't remove the kids for cause.
We actually want to earn enough to keep it over our heads without having to work 16 hour days or more. So we can actually see our house without our eyes half closed and our kids and spouse still know more about us than our name. And a picture left on the mantel gathering dust.
The rest is nothing but greed.
