[strider3700]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('thorn', '
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Not so, says Warren, and most of us would agree. Extra earnings increase costs for transportation, child care and taxes. Additional higher costs of mortgages and health care simply erase the added earnings — and then some. Warren estimates today's two-income family actually has $1,500 less per year in discretionary spending.

[lawnchair]

Man, did I ever just get a "signs of the times" shock. I was in the local SuperTarget today and passed an 'arranged display' with matching pastel clotheslines, clothespins, and clothespin bags.

!!

I mean, I've hung clothes for years. Clothes last so much longer, and you come to prefer stiff (absorbant) towels. But I've not seen one person in a hundred hanging clothes, and never expected to see matching branded chic clotheslines! Probably the most hopeful thing I've seen in months.

[Leanan]

According to The Two-Income Trap, single parents are the most likely to go bankrupt. I suppose childfree singles might do all right, but single parents have to compete against two-income families for homes, schools, etc.

I don't like hanging clothes myself. IME, they don't last longer. It's the opposite, at least if you've got a modern dryer.

But that might be because my experience hanging clothes has been in the tropics. The tropical sun is brutal on fabric.

[Doly]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Leanan', '
')But that might be because my experience hanging clothes has been in the tropics. The tropical sun is brutal on fabric.