Posted on 01/30/2012 1:58:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I want my money......
ridiculous.
a job is worth whatever someone is willing to pay.
to compare a mom who pours milk and cereal into a bowl with a personal chef is ludicrous. as is all the rest.
Hmm...I do all of that for myself. In the interest of fairness I believe the government owes me a check. Pay up, suckas.
Just sent this to my wife...probably will have picket signs in the front yard when I get home from work...
Ditto for the man of the house. What is the value of having a live-in protection service, sex on demand, handyman skills and a claim on his future income? Add all those things up and see who comes out ahead.
Sounds like a good reason for wome to stay home and take care of the family to me. You know, aside form the having a parent at home to take care of the kids, instead of kids raising themselves thing.
You know the government will want their portion of this income.
Doesn’t really depend upon how good the sex is? ouch hey!
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I'm willing to pay someone to cook my meals, clean my house, and do my laundry.
They said they used the lowest valuation for each? Not even close.
chef?
cereal, balogna sandwich and a TV dinner or call for pizza
how does McDonalds workers make in an hour? $8? Cuz all of the above took about 18 minutes. BTW- Who shops every day?
house cleaner?
Right, we run the vacuum once a day in the living room, this takes about 10 minutes. How much does a hotel maid make?
child care
That is Barney’s job
laundry service?
75 cents to wash and 50 cents to dry at the corner laundro-mat
lawn maintainence??
seriously??
If you were to add up all the traditional jobs a man does around the house: electrician, plumber, landscaper, computer technician, etc, how much is he worth?
Probably more than the housewife, if you’re trying to compare duties.
It is, to be sure, a case of working for myself. The downside is that the boss is an idiot.
electrician, plumber etc sound like higher paying duties than short order cook and maid etc
I am thinking that for MOST situations, MOST men are not doing any of those things on a daily, week-in, week-out basis. They might handle the occasional “urgent” minor repair, but they are not putting in the hours and hours that MOST women are putting into keeping up a household.
(flaming now anticipated)
Technically, I have to give you some credit. However, you were obviously absent the day they gave the whole lesson about picking your battles.
The whole thing is absurd, and is only good for tearing apart families by introducing strife into the marriage (”Well, dear, your day at the office may be tough, but I’m not paid enough”). Remember, marriage is a union of two, not just the individual looking out for his/her own best interest.
I have a brother in law who was in the middle of doing a one man remodel of my sisters main bathroom when she and the other girls got on this conversation.
As a contractor, I priced the remodel at about $15,000, he did a roofing repair while I was there, he drove a 40 year old pick up and kept it alive and cheaply repaired himself, he was a scout in the Army and served as a pretty good body guard and security guard for the family. Every time he fixes a leak, or the ice maker, or just about everything that he does there, is much more difficult, usually impossible, for her to duplicate, than for him to duplicate what she does, in fact at some point or another he does do everything that she does, but you will not find her under the house, in the deep cold mud, in 30 degree weather, fixing a broken water line.
These lists are stupid
lol.
I am not going to go into battle, I’m pretty much out of ammo now. :p
Agreed. And the figures listed for the “housewife” duties are just unbelievable. They fail to take into account that some nights it is Hamburger Helper for dinner, and the laundry is in the dryer for a couple days. Dust bunnies lurk behind things.... just reality.
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