what lengths would you go to to give your child a SAHM/D?

do_it_today!

Having a lodger

Pee wrote: »

Having had lots of lodgers and being really pro lodgers, I have to say that this is almost def not a go-er in a family home.

Is that £350 each month, cumalating?

£350 every month - so long as there are no indulgencies / emergencies and DH income not going down - although touch wood he is quite busy at the mo...

seven-day-weekend

Having a lodger

We had a lodger most of the time while our son was small to generate income.

One was a friend who stayed for two years.

One was a student who I met whilst I was doing my part-time Uni course, he was not a 'wild nights ' type guy and stayed with us for the duration of his degree course.
Then we had his girlfriend who also was a quiet girl.

They got married and we are still in touch with them although we ar in our late 50s and they are in their mid-40s.

Having a lodger in a family home definitely CAN work and the first one we had was also a built-in babysitter!

I don't know why people think it is beyond the pale.

galvanizersbaby

Downshifting groceries

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

We had a lodger most of the time while our son was small to generate income.

One was a friend who stayed for two years.

One was a student who I met whilst I was doing my part-time Uni course, he was not a 'wild nights ' type guy and stayed with us for the duration of his degree course.
Then we had his girlfriend who also was a quiet girl.

They got married and we are still in touch with them although we ar in our late 50s and they are in their mid-40s.

Having a lodger in a family home definitely CAN work and the first one we had was also a built-in babysitter!

I don't know why people think it is beyond the pale.

I'm not of the opinion it is beyond the pale - I just wondered how easy it would be to get a regular lodger in a house with small children as being woken up early/having kids running around that were not my own etc.. wouldn't have appealed to me personally when I was childfree

That's not to say it would be the same for everyone - different folks and all that

Baileys_Babe

Having a lodger

SusanC wrote: »

:eek: When we were using nappies full time it didn't take a week to make a load. Do they not smell bad if you keep them a whole week? Once we were down to only making a load after three days we started sticking them in with the regular washing.

We have never had a problem with odour, we dry pail (not in water), I don't know if this makes a differnce.