• i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
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    12 days ago

    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?!?!

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        10 days ago

        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.

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          10 days ago

          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.

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      10 days ago

      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…

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    11 days ago

    All those kid-negative comments are true. My 3 kids are noisy, tiring and expensive. But … now I’m very wary of the time when they’ll leave the house. They fill it with life and joy. Yes those laughters are magical.

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        10 days ago

        Kids are seen as a luxury, reserved for the leisure class, or a trap leveraged by evil spouses to take your money.

        Anti-natalism is just the end philosophy of a society that is fully alienated from itself. Any other people in your life is just parasites sucking happiness from your increasingly scarce free time. Your only goal should be Hustle And Grind, until you have enough money to totally self-isolate.

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    12 days ago

    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?

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      12 days ago

      Tbf, people who talk like this shouldn’t really have kids anyway so it’s an issue that resolves itself.

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    12 days ago

    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.

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    11 days ago

    I don’t have any kids but that doesn’t stop the neighbour kids from waking me up every morning.

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    10 days ago

    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