single moms barely making it on 300k/year

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She figures she will pull an additional $50,000 from a personal investment account to "pick up the slack."
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......hair appointment, $200 a pop.......gardener, $500 per month.......nanny, $40,000 per year......living in denial, priceless! :cool:
 
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Got two buddies who are layed off in the financial sector and their wives won't budge on getting rid of the large homes and cutting back on household costs.

Funny how all the women seem to use the "it's too late to sell now" reason for staying in their plush luxurious homes even after income dries up. Womens lib run amok.
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That's not women's lib run amok. That's stupidity run amok.

You guys should be careful. This is what trophy wives are like.
 
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That's not women's lib run amok. That's stupidity run amok.

You guys should be careful. This is what trophy wives are like.
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Guys that have been married for over 10 years ( in California ) and who have married women that have NO careers or one's that do not generate a decent amount of income are just asking for financial ruin when it comes time for the proverbial . . . "I don't want to go to counseling, I just want a DIVORCE."

Game over.
 
She makes more than three times the average household income for an American. She still has a job. It seems as if this is a self inflicted situation to me.
 
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Must be how she earns 150k a year, cause it's pretty obvious she is semi-retarded.
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Ouch!, that is hurtful. oh, man.

Quote from Landis82:

. . . "I don't want to go to counseling, I just want a DIVORCE."

Game over.
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That is, Prenuptial agreement is for trophy wife.
 
Quote from wartrace:

She makes more than three times the average household income for an American. She still has a job. It seems as if this is a self inflicted situation to me.
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its absolutely 100% self inflicted--- however, its very difficult to go backwards, when your entire life was going upwards. habits are difficult to break regardless of cost.

surf
 
living beyond their means.

she's lucky to have a job.



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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/15/AR2009081502957.html?icid=main|

this is more common than some would ever know....


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By local standards, Steins occupies the lower rung of affluence -- the rung where every dollar now matters.

As a vice president at MasterCard's corporate office in Purchase, N.Y., she earns a base pay of $150,000 plus a bonus. This year she'll take home 10 percent less because of a smaller bonus. She receives $75,000 a year in child support from her ex-husband. She figures she will pull an additional $50,000 from a personal investment account to "pick up the slack."


The nanny and property taxes take $75,000 right off the top, but Steins considers both non-negotiable facts of her life and not discretionary. When she bought out her husband's share of the house after their 2006 divorce, she assumed the costs of keeping it afloat -- $8,000 to $10,000 a month. There's a pool man, a gardener and someone to plow the snow from the quarter-mile-long driveway.

As tight as money is, she has decided that living in a 4,000-square-foot house on three acres is the practical thing to do. "A), I couldn't sell the house right now," she says, citing the slow real estate market:
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