I had a kid and suddenly all my money and free time evaporated.
How does something so small make me go from one load of laundry a week to 2 a day??
Where did the money go? I’m not buying much more.
How the fuck is the sink full of dirty dishes? I literally finished the dishes 12 seconds ago.
Why is everything sticky? What the fuck is on the ceiling?!?!
“Get your feet out of your brothers mouth.”
One of many phrases that I never thought I would have to say before I became a parent.
2 laundry a day with one kid? That’s impressive
I’d highly recommend cloth diapers but those do increase the load count. And if you’ve got a kid it’s harder to efficiently do more loads in a single day.
There are services that laundr it for you. A bit pricy, but worth it in my mind. But overall that gives you a good reason to potty train early on. Ours were pretty trained by 2.
Oh absolutely. I can’t imagine throwing solid turds in the washing machine.
Elementary teacher here. I can corroborate that everything is somehow sticky at school, too.
Where did the money go? I’m not buying much more.
Daycare costs me more than my mortgage. Admittedly, I have a relatively cheap mortgage, but still…
Kids are little disease vectors that drain your life-force and murder your dreams.
If you enjoy being broke, fat, tired, and boring, you should totally have kids. Come on, do it! Your friends and family just assume you’ll squeeze out one or two, you don’t want to disappoint them , do you?
Tbf, people who talk like this shouldn’t really have kids anyway so it’s an issue that resolves itself.
If I’m already all those things, but don’t enjoy it, kids can only make it better, right??!?
I don’t have any kids and no complaints, but something tells me we’re going to have to revisit this thought when we’re above 80 years of age.
I dont expect to make it to 80 unless I somehow manage to survive my country losing world War 3 and stull having to go to work cause capitalists stole what little I had saved for retirement.
Whatever happens, best of luck.
I got along with my parents really well in my 20’s and 30’s, and it’s kinda hard watching them age now, but we got 2 good decades, maybe 3, of both generations being functional adults who love each other and enrich each other’s lives.
I enjoyed being childless in my 20’s and early 30’s, and anticipate enjoying having 20+ year old children in my late 50’s onward.
Babies and toddlers are whatever. I love my children but still don’t really like other people’s children. But as they (and their peers and their cousins and their friends) grow older, I can definitely see personalities form and become future adults who I will really enjoy spending time with.
Yeah and all my tattoos will look dumb then too.
Idk. Maybe. If you keep your love for what they represented to you, who cares though?
I don’t have any kids but that doesn’t stop the neighbour kids from waking me up every morning.
you mean listening to my tinnitus?
Reading this as my son’s cat screams at our old cat for sitting in his chair.
I do kinda miss my shot at having a family. Things just didn’t work out and this struggle bus isn’t child friendly. My cats fill that void nicely. Just wish I had my own place so I didn’t have to go my Ex’s all the time.They love him to bits too. He’s better off financially than me and I know they’re taken care of but damn I miss them (Ex included). Aging and ending up isolated sucks, but it can’t last forever. Stg, I’m gonna be fucking pissed if there’s after life
What if it’s reincarnation?
