Holy shit, your anecdote negates everything! Two person household, no kids! Only 50 hours? Congrats! You are NOT WHO THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT.

Why do people seem to think that “I made this work” translates to “Everyone can make this work.”

You also have the sort of cold storage space that making ahead in bulk requires. Not everyone has that.

So you work that many hours yet you have almost an entire Sunday to devote to cooking all those meals? That right there is something many poor people would never have... if they had 10 am to 3:15 pm free every Sunday they would be trying to make more money. Also, all those meals you made require a stocked pantry with…

You had an entire day free to cook, dude. If you were working seven days a week, even if only for four hours a day, what would that marathon cooking schedule look like? Keep in mind, we haven’t yet invented transporters, so you have to burn time getting to and from your job every day, and you have to keep up with…

Yep! This was one of the hardest things I had to deal with. In fact, I had to develop the instinct of budgeting for time just as much as money. A lot fewer places will teach you how to budget your time when you’re broke, but it’s essential. I learned how to do things in the background while I did other stuff (for…

I have to disagree with 130 hours a week combined being more than 90% of households. I live in a very low income area and most people around here put in 70 or more hours apiece, spread across two or three part-time jobs (the only kind available for the most part), which adds even more time in transit. I know several…

That’s really awesome that 2 professional, college-educated, middle-class people who live together have the time and where-withal to buy $120 in meat and food to cook in their $80 pressure cooker. Good for you, man!

That’s assuming everyone has a) a working oven, stove, and whatever other gadgets necessary to make everything, b) the storage space for meal planning, c) the consecutive time to make so much in one sitting, d) the access to the food in the first place, and e) the knowledge with which to do those things. My spouse is…

How fortunate for you that you have a whole day off in which to cook. Many people who work multiple jobs work 7 days a week and do not have 5 or 6 hours at a stretch to cook food ahead of time. Really poor people may not have pressure cookers and crock pots and all sorts of fancy appliances. At best, a shitty…

You just ignored what everyone else had to say about lack of skills, time, and energy, didn’t you? There’s also something the poor face that you and your white collar wife don’t: decision fatigue.

Time.

Not only that, but parents get ridiculed for having negative thoughts about their children, especially mothers. Everyone gets tired, and having worked with many babies, I am fully aware of the days when you just want to scream because NOTHING you do works, and it’s because you really are trying so hard to make sure…

Are you kidding me with this entitled mothers bullshit? You were the only one there with a baby, that should have been your first clue. Why would they change their rules (“a day to get away from the kids”) just for you? Your special snowflake syndrome is in overdrive and I hope like hell that you don't pass on this…

This baby was loud enough during the first session that it was heard from the stage. The organizer then informed the woman that she shouldn’t have her baby in the sessions. Would readers and the author be equally incensed if the author had received a call on her unmuted cell phone during the first session and then had…

I definitely think we need to improve paternity and maternity leave and some sort of daycare at workplaces would be ideal. However, I think it’s wildly idealistic to think everything would be hunky dory if we started incorporating kids into every day life workplaces. I work in academia and a professor often takes her…

I understand that many people don’t have the support system to leave their baby at home but it seems like since she brought someone to watch her baby she could have gotten that same person to watch her baby at home. On a wider scale I understand the frustrations, two of my closest friends are single moms and it’s…

Actually the best thing this conference court have done is provide on-site childcare so that women could enjoy the seminar without having to care for their children at the same time and without worrying their children might get fussy and bother others. That would send a hell of a lot more of a statement than someone…

Every conference I’ve gone to where people bring babies and older children, the back of the conference room becomes a makeshift play area, with blankets and toys strewn about, and children making noise. It is a HUGE distraction and disrespectful to everyone else there who is trying to concentrate on what is going on,…

DISCLAIMER: I do not have any babies but I’m kind of in baby fever right now (!) and actually volunteered to sit on a plane next to a baby like a crazy person. So this is not coming from hate.