Hey there Ri. Welcome from the coast of Maine.
If i could offer a bit of advise from an old guy to a young fulla just starting out .... ?
There's this whole Zen thing going on with scrapping. A lot of folks find fun and relaxation with it. It's something that you and your wife can do together. It's important to spend time together .... makes for a better marriage. Just make sure that you are both on the same page about it. She may not be as much into it as you are. Maybe it's more that she just wants to spend some time with you. It sometimes gets lonely when you are stuck at home and your spouse is off doing other things.
The term ... "scrapper's widow" has been bounced around here and there over the years.
The money aspect of it is a different matter. Scrapping is not gonna help you make ends meet. You make very very little after you take out all of your operating expenses.
You gotta figure out something different. I switched jobs this year and more than doubled my take home pay. We're holding about even as compared to how we were doing before Covid and inflation started started up a few years ago.
The point is .... you have to do big things just to stay even these days. Scrapping isn't gonna cut it.
My best advise would be to get her back to work part time. My wife and i had a really good setup when we were first starting out with two kids. I would work my regular day job and she would work her part time job in the evenings for three or four hours. That got her out of the house. Working and earning her own money helped build her self esteem. We worked together as equal partners to support the family and raise the kids.
Things are even harder for your generation coming up through. You really need at two full time wage earners to support a family of four now. Anything less is well apt to leave you short on the essentials like food,housing, and heat in the winter.
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