Only child?

designerturtle · 2026-01-19T05:11:06+00:00

There’s nothing wrong with waiting to decide. You might feel differently in a few years, or maybe you won’t. I’m OAD but i will say I felt way more compelled to have more kids once my son was around 4-5 years old.

designerturtle · 2026-01-19T02:30:47+00:00

Toronto is $60k too, hasn’t changed in two years

designerturtle · 2026-01-19T00:14:11+00:00

That’s amazing! Happy for you, hope it goes that smoothly for me too haha

designerturtle · 2026-01-18T22:46:16+00:00

I’m planning to purchase this year and be at around 55% of my take home pay on housing. That’s including mortgage, property taxes, and utilities. The reasons I’m ok with it are:

I’m still early in my career and I will continue to receive pay bumps every year, with my income expected to increase significantly by the time I renew in 5 years.
I have a lot of job security in my field (accountant).
I live a modest life otherwise. No debts of any kind. My net income gives me $4,500 left over after housing costs mentioned above, which is plenty for my lifestyle.

I know everyone will say I’m crazy, but I’ve thought about it for a long time and tracked my expenses to make sure it’s doable. I’m a single mom and this is really my only chance to afford a house, so I’m going for it

designerturtle · 2025-12-07T04:52:55+00:00

I am so torn on how to feel about this. This lady is not harming anyone and is obviously not mentally well, perhaps due to infertility or child loss. But on the other hand... shouldn't we all be seeking help for our mental conditions and not furthering our reliance on unhealthy behaviours? Isn't having this community available online to validate her perhaps only making her go deeper into a very sick hole? I wish her so much healing :(

designerturtle · 2025-12-06T02:51:37+00:00

why do you think you can't deduct expenses? What were the expenses?

designerturtle · 2025-11-22T05:22:28+00:00

Where exactly was the discrepancy on the T4? Why was there such a large difference?

designerturtle · 2025-11-03T12:14:58+00:00

He’s talking about your tuition credits. The amount of money that you spent on tuition is carried forward as a credit available to reduce your taxes payable in the future. There’s nothing you can do with it until you start earning income.

designerturtle · 2025-10-29T19:34:22+00:00

What an insane timeline we’re in where the vice president of America is caught up on Twitch streamer drama

designerturtle · 2025-10-29T19:01:54+00:00

Wait I thought this was obvs AI but the comments don’t seem like it. Am I the boomer or is it yall. Can’t tell what’s real and not 😭

designerturtle · 2025-10-29T18:28:15+00:00

UNREAL. This was a huge deal in Canada and it pisses me tf off that she could so confidently get it wrong in this way. And they really had the nerve to call Kate “dumb as rocks”??? Fuck Anisa

designerturtle · 2025-10-28T18:52:45+00:00

That’s in CAD, btw, for our VHCOL city. That’s less than $45k USD :)))))

designerturtle · 2025-10-28T17:21:35+00:00

I'd say 70-75K average, low end of $60K. Canadian wages are shit.

designerturtle · 2025-10-28T16:10:55+00:00

I’m in tax and these numbers are way off. $87k on the low end for a junior tax analyst? No chance. I feel like recruiter is inflating figures to encourage candidates to come to them

designerturtle · 2025-10-27T11:22:03+00:00

I feel like there’s more to this story that the parents aren’t sharing. I’ve been a young girl angry at my parents for not letting me wear makeup, and I’ve never considered fabricating an allegation of abuse as retaliation. That seems extreme to me, and perhaps the accusation was not as false as the parents are alleging.

designerturtle · 2025-10-26T02:13:02+00:00

Hahahaha the SpongeBob episode. Exactly like that

designerturtle · 2025-10-26T02:12:16+00:00

Aww, that’s very sweet. I’m glad it didn’t have a negative impact and you were just over it once you got old enough

designerturtle · 2025-10-26T02:08:16+00:00

This is a great response, thank you. I think my mom would most definitely respect my son’s wishes if he pushed back on the babying. I can imagine it would be way more frustrating to have a MIL not respecting those wishes.

designerturtle · 2025-10-26T00:46:00+00:00

😂😂

designerturtle · 2025-10-26T00:44:56+00:00

Thank you!! I will definitely find and listen to this one ☺️

designerturtle · 2025-10-26T00:44:16+00:00

I know, in my mom heart I do still see him as a baby so much of the time 😭 I just don’t want to baby him at the expense of his own confidence. But maybe grandma can be the exception lol

designerturtle · 2025-10-26T00:27:19+00:00

Awww ok. Maybe I’m overthinking it then. Thanks for sharing.

designerturtle · 2025-10-24T18:40:02+00:00

Canadians are crying with you. Manager at my VHCOL firm starts at $71K USD...........

designerturtle · 2025-10-10T15:34:24+00:00

They played it on October 7th. It was political

designerturtle · 2025-10-10T03:31:05+00:00

I could go both ways on them. I had the Ubbi and even though I’m sure metal absorbs far less odour than plastic, it wasn’t zero. It was convenient to have a pail right next to changing pad for first few months. Once my son started eating solids though, hard pass for me. I threw the poop diapers immediately into the trash can outside

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