Not really a funny, sorry
I, myself am doing okay so far into the credit crunch. Norway hasn't been too hard hit yet *knock on wood* and we're still at only a 3% unemployment rate. My fiancee earns enough to support us both so whatever I manage to bring in is an added bonus to the savings or fun money.

But I do worry about my family back in england. My eldest brother works two crappy jobs (security and life guarding) at the age of 28 when he's fully qualified and very talented at silversmithing. Mainly because his wife insists that the children (6 months and 2 years) cannot possibly spend three days a week in daycare so that she can work part time. Because obviously, it's the man's job to support the family. This worked ok before the financial crisis, now I worry that Chris doesn't sleep at all.. Witch.

My other brother is in the middle of an unfunded PhD, his teaching work just got cut to one day a week from three and he's struggling. Bah. My little sister is auditioning for a Masters in Leipzig, no idea where she'll find the money to do it now that her spare money goes on helping my PhD brother.

And my parents just have no money at all! They were surviving on the interest from their savings but now of course there is very little or no interest, so they're having to actually use their savings now. Bit crap, I feel helpless because I am currently not earning enough to support just one of them, let alone them all.

And to top it all off, I'm getting married here in Norway this summer so they all have to find the money to book flights out here! (admittedly not so expensive. 100 pounds each for a return). I feel terrible about it.
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 13:32, 5 replies)

hmm
I don't agree with children under 12 months in childcare either.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 13:42, closed)

mm
Perhaps not. But both sets of grandparents live within 15 minutes, her parents actually live 5 minutes walk way.

How about children under 12 months with the grandparents?
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 13:53, closed)

sounds like...
She's just a yummy-mummy wannabe who likes the idea of justifying her existence purely by the fact she has had children, so therefore can't possibly be expected to help out financially during a recession - it's insane to even suggest she get off her ass and get a job...obviously!

Silly deluded bint.
(Chad, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 14:10, closed)

well
that would depend on the grandparents. But I would have no a priori objection to it ... barring the potential difficulty with breastfeeding, that is.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 16:59, closed)

The grandparents
Hm. well both grandmothers don't work, so they are at home and available and pretty awesome. And there's no breastfeeding, actually this time for a good reason :p The first baby had an allergy to breast milk and it was a bit frightening, so she hasn't risked even trying with the new baby.
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Sun 25 Jan 2009, 9:57, closed)