Posted on 01/01/2009 1:05:40 PM PST by CE2949BB
She sews, cooks, knits, gardens and raises chooks. The housewife is back – with younger women embracing traditional domestic crafts in droves, new figures show.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
She stayed at home after marriage. While she had been healthy up until the day she died, they really didn’t have much to talk about her life and I think it was a bit of a waste.
As an at home mother I was busier and more happy than at any one time in my life.
Some people have the lives that they want.
She stayed at home after marriage. While she had been healthy up until the day she died, they really didn’t have much to talk about her life and I think it was a bit of a waste. I lost a friend who was disgusted with me not using my advanced degree.
She didnt understand that what I was doing was more fun and more creative than anything I had ever done, including defending my thesis.
As an at home mother I was busier and more happy than at any one time in my life.
Some people have the lives that they want.
My wife has been a homemaker for 15 years now. We have no kids. When I get home she’s wearing sweats and watching Judge Judy or that woman whose show always reports on crimes (like the girl who disappeared in Aruba and the new case down in Florida where the little kid went missing and they just found her skeleton and arrested her mother). I pour my own beer. We’ve been married for 25 years.
She doesnt know what she is losing.
What about Donna Reed?
She can add it to her green belt in TaeKwonDo.
I have never understood how sacrificing the most valuable thing you have--time--for the benefit of some corporation is a worthwhile use of your talents. On the contrary, it just sucks the energy out of you and prevents you from having the time to truly use your talents.
Here's an example. I love art. I have a little talent. I'd like to spend some time painting pictures. I'd also like to do some more writing for publication. I want to learn how to play the classical guitar, take dressage lessons, take some courses in history, volunteer at a favorite charity. None of these are things you can really make a living at, so they have to be for "spare" time. When I was younger and a stay-at-home mom, I had time for that stuff, and I did a lot of it side-by-side with my kids. Now I'm working all day, and when I get off work I have errands to run, dinner to make, homework to help with, cleaning and laundry to do. By the time I get done with everything that needs to be done, it's 11 p.m. and I'm flat on my face. My talents are being wasted and the corporation is getting the best of me, not my family. This is not a good thing for the family, only for the company.
Marriage should be a partnership; women need to pitch in and help with the family finances (and men need to help with housework).
Agreed, marriage should be a partnership. But the stay-at-home mom is helping with the family finances when she takes care of the children, housekeeping, cooking, shopping, laundry, chores, errands, and the myriad other functions that keep a family running. The family then doesn't have to pay to have someone cut the grass, or supervise the children, or tutor them in their homework, or wallpaper the bathroom. This is her contribution, and it's very valuable and would be quite costly to replace. Running a family is a full-time job, and if the woman is working outside the house she has two jobs to do.
Lord God, how I wish I could go back to being a traditional housewife. I was such a determined career woman before my marriage, but the years as a stay-at-home mom were the happiest, most rewarding, most creative of my life. Or my husband’s. Or my kids’.
Wow, is she lucky. What the heck does she do all day?
Here you go:
Welcome to Panama Guide
Thursday, January 01 2009 @ 05:48 PM EST
Forbes Notes Panama’s Prosperity
Thursday, December 18 2008 @ 03:44 PM EST
Contributed by: Don Winner
Bob Bauman - A leading U.S. financial magazine, Forbes, has taken note of something we’ve been talking about for months — the fact that the Republic of Panama, one of our favorite offshore jurisdictions, so far has escaped the worst impact of the worldwide recession harming other nations.
The Dec. 8th edition of Forbes sees three important factors producing Panama’s seeming immune from the global financial mess. Construction, Canal & Colon:
First, the Panamanian construction sector remains in hyper-growth mode as it has been for several years, even though there are sign the condo fever is waning in Panama City. Forbes notes that U.S. retirees are attracted by the comparatively lower cost of living, the ease of a dollarized economy, the presence of many English-speaking expats and locals and the proximity to the United States.
A second major factor is the Panama Canal widening construction project that is boosting the nation’s economy, the largest infrastructure project in Latin America with a tentative tag price of $5.2 billion. Already underway, the project is pumping money into the local service-based economy, which should easily reach the 7-8% growth in 2009 according to International Monetary Fund projections.
The third important reason for prosperity is the massive income generated by the Colon Free Zone, (second in size only to Hong Kong), representing almost 8% of the Panama economy.
Last year, bilateral trade between the U.S. and Panama totaled $4.1 billion, up by nearly one billion over 2006. One third of Panama’s imports come from the United States, and 36% of its total exports are bound for the United States.
Continuing Boom:
Panama’s economy grew by 9.2% in the 3rd quarter over the year ago period, helped by expansion of agriculture, manufacturing and services, the government reported Monday. Between July and September GDP grew to $4.73 billion, up $400 million from the same period in 2007.
Panama’s economy is expected to grow 9.5% in 2008 and at least 7.5% in 2009, as the impact of the consumer slowdown in the United States begins to hit global trade. Transport, including shipping through the country’s famous canal, accounts for about a fifth of Panama’s gross domestic product.
According to the government, other growth sectors continue to flourish including the construction sector, which has transformed Panama City’s skyline into a mass of skyscrapers. In the third quarter, the construction sector grew 28.8% over a year ago, accounting for just over 5% of GDP, but a sign of slowing was shown in a 30% construction decline in September compared to a year ago.
Panama has posted 23 consecutive quarters of economic growth, growing gross domestic product by 11.5% in 2007, which is double the pace of the rest of Latin America and well ahead of the United States. These numbers rival powerhouse China in terms of national GDP growth.
But one veteran local observer urges caution: “I am amazed that they can state that even though the condo bubble appears to be bursting, Panama is doing ‘brilliantly’. When stories like that come out you can be sure things are not as rosy as they would like you to think.”
You Can Visit This Leading Offshore Haven Soon.
We have long advocated Panama as an excellent offshore tax and asset haven. Since the 1920’s it has adopted business and finance friendly laws and its territorial tax policy imposes no taxes on income earned outside Panama. As the banking hub of Latin America, Panama also offers strong financial privacy and bank secrecy and has no tax treaties with any other nation.
I think the term “1950s housewife” is misleading. Housewives were common from ancient times until the late 70s.
Barbara Streisand.
I've done both, and running a business is easier.
What the heck does she do all day?
She Freeps. :)
I love ironing. Most weekends of my childhood I would watch tv with my father (Western shows, sports) while he cleaned his guns and I ironed his uniforms. I still find it very soothing, although with eight children, we generally avoid clothes that need ironing!
Perhaps Tazlo has been brainwashed, like many these days, that being a housewife is a waste of talent and no contribution.
Warning: must want a lot of kids.
“Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him.”
Funny how things have changed so much in just a few decades. Coming from a more recent generation, the first thing I thought of was the wife being open to the idea of a threesome. ;)
In no way am I putting down ironing.
I personally don’t like to do it if somebody else can do it. And yes, none, and I mean none, of my clothes need to be ironed. I purposely buy them that way. But for some reason, my lady worker feels they need ironing. I have often thought she does not have enough to do, so this is one way to give the appearance of being busy.
What can I say. Like everybody else, she also needs a job.
Jen, are you expecting a baby??
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