Big lasagna. There will be days she’s too sad to cook. It can be frozen and saved.

You’re just making it sound cooler

Not answering your question. But if you do buy, don’t listen to the realtor or loan officer about how big a loan you can afford. Both are incentivized to sell you the biggest house/loan. Neither will care when you’re struggling to pay for it.

You’re monthly payment plus insurance plus taxes should be something you could safely pay for six months while unemployed. If that’s impossible, get a small house. The worst possible situation is being house poor.

If I had serious financial stress I cannot imagine also having kid stress. What if one needs serious medical attention or has special education needs?

I dunno. This seems reckless.

That’s easy. Just stop wanting to do the things you can’t do.

So you hate sales people in general

This is why sales tax is silly unless it’s purposefully punitive. Like with cigarettes.

If they want to give back to consumers, then literally give money to consumers.

Oh, 100%. He’s a person living in a house. He doesn’t need to add his extra room to the housing market. If he does, that’s just extra supply and that’s good.

I have a large basement. I don’t think it’s immoral to not rent it out.

You own a house. You live in it. This is fine.

You have an extra room that you add to the housing market. That’s a net positive. It drives down costs.

The other option is that you live in that house alone and don’t have that room available. That reduces supply and that’s bad.

Here’s the issue. He’s getting this house for free. It’s going to cost him money to sell it.

He’s living in it. He doesn’t need to add his extra room to the housing market. He could just live in that house alone. His choosing to put his room onto the market drives down costs. That’s a net positive.

Legal isn’t moral. Economics don’t make right.

Consuming more than you require intentionally could be seen as unethical. You can see this all over society.

No raindrop thinks itself responsible for the flood.

Poor communities already do this to support each other. They watch each other’s kids. They run errands for each other. They don’t keep track and charge cash and create an LLC. But community support is real.

So you’re supporting his claim.

This is a “black lives matter” messaging situation. Just because working people deserve a living wage doesn’t mean other people don’t.

It’s annoying that this isn’t obvious. But I agree that it’s not.

The math:

https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/redistricting-report-card

This isn’t too say there are zero instances, obviously. But Democrats are gerrymandering in the same way that my 8 year old is a sculptor.

If you want to be a tree, go cremation. Trees get their carbon from the air not the soil.

Good thing you got that degree then

LinkedIn to find the job. Then straight to the company website to apply.

Only because they couldn’t figure out how to leave