Women who have careers waste money. Many of them have to buy expensive clothing. They have to own their own car and spend money on the gas to get to and from work. They have to spend more money on food since they don't have the time to find the best quality food for less money and fix it from scratch. In fact, many times they have to buy take out food since they are too exhausted to cook when they get home. Then there is the money they have to spend for daycare. The list could go on and on about how much more money it takes to have a career than to stay home full-time and learn to save money instead of spend it.
One woman in the chat room figured out that she was only making $110 per month while she was working outside of the home. She made $1400 to $1500 a month. When she was working, she spent $1400 a month on food. There is no time to fix scrambled eggs with onions, peppers, and a bit of cheese with some homemade bread in the morning, along with a fresh picked orange from the tree in your yard for her family to enjoy. No, she had to eat expensive cereal out of a box which is devoid of any healthy vitamins and minerals. For lunch, instead of fixing a large salad with roasted chicken, avocado, and homemade salad dressing, she had to run across the street to a fast food joint which isn't really food since it does nothing to nourish her body. For dinner, instead of grilling some fresh fish with baked potatoes and yams or some yummy rice, bean, and chicken stew for her family, after finally getting home from a long day at work, she was grabbing a pizza from the local pizza store for dinner along with a couple of sodas. Nutritious homemade meals were only costing her $400 per month instead of the $1400 per month when she worked outside of the home. No comparison in any way. {I realize some of you who work full-time outside of the home make every effort possible to feed your family healthy but many do not. Fast food joints started going strong when women left their homes for careers.}
When a woman works outside of the home, she has no time to garden, hang up clothing outside to dry, make her own non-toxic cleaners, clean her windows and home, find the best prices, go to garage sales, nurse her baby full-time, use cloth diapers, learn to sew, cut and color hair, and a multitude of other things full-time wives and mothers are able to do.
Our government wants to spend more money on daycare so mothers can leave their homes and work. They are very good at wasting other people's money. They have no wisdom. It is much less money to encourage mothers to learn to live within the money their husband makes and live frugally.
Working at home full-time is not only healthier for the family, it is healthier for the women in every way. If you are working full-time, keep track of all of your expenses for a month. Subtract that from what you make plus the taxes that are taken out and you will probably find out it is better to learn to live frugally and within your husband's income than have a job outside of your home. After all, a penny saved is better than a penny earned for a mother since your children need you way more than any job needs you.
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
1 Timothy 6:6
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
1 Timothy 6:6
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Mrs. G. · 450 weeks ago
Guest · 450 weeks ago
I'm unsure of the importance you place on these tasks as relates to Christianity, the gospel, and what the Bible says about wives. I buy non organic oranges from a grocery store. That doesn't make me a failure to my son, my husband, or my Lord.
Guest · 450 weeks ago
I am glad to be at home, but I do struggle with my time. I have plenty to do, but struggle some days where to start. I do have certain wash days, cleaning times but it is the extras. Right now I am canning and freezing so some of the cleaning has to wait. Sometime it would be nice to see how other people structure their time. Do they have a routine or how it goes!
pamelambc 33p · 450 weeks ago
Of course, by teaching school, I have a benefit of being able to be home earlier in the afternoon to cook a decent dinner.
Daycare is what kills a salary. That's why I stayed home until my children went to school.
KingdomMinded Mamma · 450 weeks ago
I would like to point out one thing. There seems to be a lot of focus on the government and feminism as the "bad guys" which I think can be a dangerous mindset. We still must have a Kingdom Minded mindset with the understanding that a human entity or human itself is not our enemy. "Our battle is not against flesh and blood but against principalities, rulers and powers of this dark world". I think the enemy would love for our words of attack to go against another human instead of dealing with the root of the problem and blaming the deceiver himself. The more we focus on another human the more anger, bitterness, judgment etc he can create within us towards another person. The enemy has deceived so many within the government as well as families to walk away from their God given design within the home. In order to change things for the better we need to address the true problem before we can reach the hearts of those deceived with the love of Christ.
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Lady Virtue · 450 weeks ago
There are three ladies in the place where I work who had babies this year, and they are all back in the office already. One just returned less than three months after having beautiful twin girls. It makes my heart hurt. :(
AngelaT111213 21p · 450 weeks ago
PS: I am going to make your salad dressing. I make vinaigrettes, but haven't figured out a good creamy dressing. Yours looks tasty.
Jennifer · 449 weeks ago
Our circumstances have not allowed my husband to work in a full-time paid job but he works in food relief with our church and volunteers with the fire brigade and emergency services as well as adding to the hours he is paid to do. He shares the car and the load. We work together in the garden most weekends around other chores.
I love to be home and really enjoy all that a stay at home role involves but that door did not open for me yet. Yes, I have wasted money but not intentionally as we really only have one income. We budget both money and time so that we can manage things. During the time of raising our sons, we also saw them achieve State Representative level in their sport which then meant weekly training sessions in the state capital - a 2 hour drive away. If we could carpool, we did but mostly we drove them and combined those trips with seeing family or friends or some other task. When they were very young, I completed my Master's degree with a scholarship to Melbourne University. Each semester I had Saturday classes and while I was there my husband took the boys to the Museum or some other educational attraction so that they became familiar with them and they would tell me all about their learning after I finished.
I choose not to make any judgement about how anyone, anywhere spends their time. I know full-time workers who are far better managers than me as well as some who are utterly disorganised and who do eat too much junk food etc. Equally, I know many amazing stay at home mums who work so hard and are raising great families with little money but great attitudes and positivity. Then I know some who stay at home and who waste time, buy only processed or 'instant' type foods, who do not clean, do not garden and so on. I do not think that generalisations can be made about anyone - that is unfair and very disrespectful. Being a good wife and a good steward, can sometimes still necessitate going out of the home to work.