Sharing Expenses and Saving Money
by Living with family benefits everyone.
Many years ago during the great depression families chose to live together in order to save money. The same thing is starting to happen today. Many folks are having a hard time paying their bills, keeping food on their table and still being able to have the extras in life that they enjoy, so many are now moving in with family in order to save.
Some families have a hard time living together, this is truly hard for me to understand because I love having my family around. I always have! In fact my mom and I have stayed together most of my adult life, I couldn’t imagine her in her own place at any point in our lives.
In fact through my marriages I’ve changed husbands but never homes (smile) The home was mine and of course my moms before marriage and it was ours after the marriage was over.
I’ve always pretty much had my family close.
In fact this last December my oldest daughter, her husband, my mom, my husband and I just bought a house together.
We didn’t do this to save money! though we are saving and we love it (smile)
We work together and split everything in half and you would think by living together everyday that we would want a break from each other “nope” that isn’t the case, we are even planning our vacation to include all of us.
We decided to buy this house together because we enjoy being around family.
Yes at times things do get a little tense between us but the house is big enough that we can find our own space when we need it.
And I love having my grand kids around all the time, it makes life interesting!
By moving into this house I was also able to help out my other daughter by renting my trailer to her and her family for a much lower amount than she was paying for rent else where and she doesn’t have to worry if she can do something to change the home because she knows that I don’t care if she paints, pounds a few nails in the walls or wants to change things because I know that home is in good hands with her.
Her kids are much more happier there, it is a home that they are use to because they visited grammy and Gram there all the time. yep mom and I and my husband lived there before we moved to the house.
In fact before we had the closing on the house my daughter her husband and her two children all moved to the trailer with us till the closing was done and we could move in.
Now that was crowded (smile) so I guess if we could all squeeze into a two bedroom trailer for three months together we could live any where together (smile).
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Post CommentJuhls
On April 15, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Definitely a very practical, smart way to reduce costs. And it can be fun and cozy : ).
ladybaby
On May 9, 2009 at 5:32 pm
I owned a house before it was stolen through fore closure, It was so nice having everyone over all the time. It was a real family. I live on SSI, and I only owed $5000. on my house, then the city told me I needed a new roof and storm windows.. I went everywhere to try and get them. No one would allow me to get them on credit because of my income. Even though my house payment was lower than rent would be. I took out $l5,000, from a predatory loan company to get the work done. I paid them back $12,000. of the $15,000 and they still told me I owed them the entire amount. I won’t go into how they do it here. Maybe I’ll write an article on it. Then all of a sudden my morgage, and the predatory loan company both up my rent to way over what I could afford. I went two years without Heat to pay ALL my income on the two payments, but I kept getting a little further back every month. Then they foreclosed on my house. GET OUT. just like that. Landlords don’t want families living together unless they get extra money. Sometimes I feel like I’d be better off being homeless, then have to put up with all the Master, slave restrictions of landlords. Our government does not care what is happening to families who are loosing their homes. Yes, some can move in with relatives, but many live in their cars, or hidden out of sight, and going to work like everything is okay. I’d like to see our politicians have to go through what they put us through. In stead they give huge bailouts to the banks that put everyone out. I wish I had been born 200 years ago when things were more simple and it was normal for families to live together. You are blessed. Good article.