Sahms Do You Work on the Weekends?

I would love to go back to work at Pottery Barn, which was my weekend job before I had kids. There are some really nice people that work there, the clientel is pretty polite (rare in retail), and I loved the discount!

Unfortunately doing so would require getting a babysitter, which would cost over 2x as much as I'd be making. (Hubby can't help out since he works almost every Sat).

I think that is a great idea.
Sounds like it would work for you and you don't have to get daycare to boot! Great for the kids to be with dad.
Good for dad, too. ;)
The extra money would be good and dad can rest at night during the week.
I think it's a great compromise and everyone would benefit.
You would get a break and get out of the house while bringing in extra money.
A few hours on the weekend is best. I would not want to be away from my kids anymore than that. Then be frugal w/your money. Use it wisely to make the time away from your kids worth it. :)

Nope. I'd miss out on too much family time.

So you are saying that kids of SAHMs think their moms are lazy because they don't work? I completely disagree. My kids witness daily the amount of work I do for this family. If I left on the weekends for a job that I took for this reason it would do nothing but disrupt the household and our family time together. I would think they would resent me more than respect me at this point-esp since I would be going to wait on the public for min wage. On the other hand if you are doing it because your family truly needs the money then I think it is a noble thing to do.

I used to work at night and on the weekends. I'll admit I didn't really like it because I missed out of being able to spend time with the family as a whole on the weekends. If you can work during the week do that family time is important too.

Yes. I am a SAHM. I work part time, or even less then that, mainly on the weekends usually evening hours (6pm-11pm). On rare occassion I also work a few hours during the week, either in the evening OR if I do work during the day I can let me daughter tag along while I do a supplies/food run.

Make sure your kids know that what you do is work, best way to do that is give them daily chores to do.

I support my family by working on the weekends. I don't do it because I want to for the extra $$ or so my kiddo won't think I'm lazy. I do it because without my job, we'd have NO income and no insurance. (husband isn't working).

And it sucks. We can never do fun, weekend things as a family because I'm at work (I work nights). Husband doesn't get to do a lot of things he wants to on weekends, because he has to watch the kiddo. I'd much rather be home 24/7, but we have to eat & pay bills, etc. So I do what I have to.

Powerfully envious of those that don't work at all and those who work for "mad" money. It's a whole different ball game when you're the one bringing home the bacon.

There is too much 'family' stuff I would miss out on if I worked the weekends. Camping, boating, just going to the park....all things that we do when Daddy is off. My solution would be a part time night job. You have time for homework and dinner, then the kids are in bed already (or if not, will be soon and dad really can do that) and dad can hold the fort down. It's nowhere near high paying, but I was thinking a 24 hour gas station (Qtrip comes to mind and they pay 8.75, so not much, but more than minimum wage) or a night stocker at Walmart for a couple hours (7, 8, 9 pm till midnight or 1 am). Then you get home, asleep by one or two and sleep til the kids get up with various naps during the day!

I work part-time, and i love it!! It gives me some time away from the kids, and my boss lets me bring them if I need to. Its wonderful to be able to contribute to the bank account (even though its not much), it helps with groceries and the ever-rising gas fill ups! My husband is wonderful with the kiddos while I am away, and I always have to keep in mind that he just does things a little differently than we are used to during the week... its ok though its daddy time!!

I stay at home because we couldn't afford child care if I worked full time. I love it though, because being at home is a full-time job in itself!!

I have done that before. I lived in a new town and the only people I knew were coworkers (who were working still, while I was now a sahm), so I started going a little stir crazy in a 1 bedroom apartment even though I was out often and gave LOTS of attention and love to my baby. My husband worked with people allllllllll day long, very long hours, M-F, so when he came home he wasn't in much of a talking mood. That was hard, since he was the only adult I had around. We kept Saturday as family day to do something fun together. Sunday I'd go to church, then after church work at Babies R Us from 1-7. That was 6 hours of talking to adults, where I wasn't a mom or wife, and it helped a lot. It also gave my husband time to be home with the baby and get a glimpse of cleaning, cooking, loving, playing, and taking care of the baby, so he respected me a lot more during the week, lol. I considered it "allowance" money and after paying taxes and tithes, I saved ALL the rest of it for a special event I was planning (a huge 50th birthday bash for my husband, and joint scuba lessons). Later I added inhome childcare during the week so our son could have a couple playmates and I saved that money for vacations. We've moved, and it's been almost 2 years since I've worked again. I'm seriously thinking about doing this again (childcare and also a part time job). We have a couple projects we are saving for. My husband does good at providing for our "needs", but I want to help him with the extra stuff (his mother is aging, has alzheimers, lives overseas and I want to make sure he can see her...I want to save up so we can have a family vacation there which is much more expensive than him going alone...I also want to add more to our "emergency fund", stuff like that......I just want to. I also don't like the idea of having NOTHING on my work history for too long. Harder to get a job if you do need one, the longer you go without one.

No I don't dream of a job on the weekends. I still work my butt off as a SAHM on the weekends..I don't have time or energy for a paid job. Sooo...no I do not think about getting a job only on weekends. The weekends are sacred times..it is when my hubby is home and we have lots of good ol' fashion family play time. It is also the time that we turn on music and clean up house and do projects together. That time is so precious to us that it outweighs extra income.

My hubby makes a good living and I have total freedom with our checkbook so I don't feel the need to earn some pocket money of my own. The money he makes at work is MINE too...just because I didn't earn it at his place of employment doesn't mean it isn't mine. I bust my butt around the house and with the kids so I feel it is rightly mine...and he feels the same.

My hubby also helps alot with the kids and with the house so I don't feel the need to go off to work to show him what my life as a SAHM is like.

I also don't feel that my kids need to see me earning money at a job to see that I am a hard worker. They see me do so much around our home, for them,for my husband, at their school, at our church, in our community and with extended family and also friends that they see me work hard without the prize of a paycheck. They see that you can work hard for the benefit of serving others and not just for a paycheck.....sometimes an even greater lesson!!

Quite the opposite.

I work hard all week. When my husband and I had a good marriage, I threw a fit. I was working 14-18 hour days 7 days a week, and got a 0 day weekend. He was working 8 hour days 5 days a week and got a 2 day weekend.

From that moment, for the next few years we EACH got a 1 day weekend. Sleep in until you wake up (heaven), make plans (could be gone from wakeup until midnight or whenever/ come and go as you please). No cooking, cleaning, childcare, schlepping, activities, playdates, doctor's appointments. NO WORK. It saved my sanity. My personal belief is that everyone needs at least one day of no work a week. ((I feel backed up in that belief by the world's 3 largest religions -Judaism, Christianity, and Islam- also professing the same thing)). A day of REST. Life is just sooooo much better/ more fulfilling in my own experience, when I actually have a day of rest.

((Then, of course for anyone who follows my postings, my husband went sideways a few years ago, and my 1 day weekends went *poof* -he has temper issues- but for those years we each had family day, his day, my day... absolute heaven.))