The cost of our living, our lifestyle, does it come at the expense of our lives itself? We work to provide both a safe and comfortable home, and importantly, exciting experiences that will hopefully open up our children minds about the world and give them the opportunity to explore it, to overcome situations, deal with them sensible and turn them into the characters they should become. Would we have more money for this if we say, downsized into a 3 bed house, one toilet instead of 3!
When put like this it does seem like overkill. But this is our house, and it’s always and only been our house. We bought it to fill with kids and family and I think we’ve done it well. We could maybe move to a similar house in a cheaper area, but I think that would be a bad move. The streets here are safe, and although things sometimes do happen here, it’s far from the norm as in other places. The schools are good, the girl’s friends are good, I’d hate for them to be hanging out with a bunch of schemies. I’d give up work if we could afford to look after these two full time ourselves. I think we’d be great at home schooling too. But it’s not gonna happen, we can explore alternative lifestyle in our own way.