To ask how much your OH earns if you are a stay at home parent?

[LittleLeif]

Or how much did you have in savings?
This is very very nosey of me but I am trying to figure out if it is viable for me to ever stay at home with my baby. Unfortunately I have to go back to work full time but am hoping to maybe take a career break when she is a two or three.
We are both in jobs where you get opportunities for annually or bi-annually pay rises that can be quite substantial so I'm interested to see if he will be earning enough to support us for a year by then.
TIA

Ohtheroses, DH is completely on the ball (it is he, and not I, who is the GP), it's me who isn't , I found the wording of you post a bit confusing .

It was pretty clear. God, he didn't marry a nurse did he

Ouch! No he didn't, not unless he has Another DW stashed away somewhere...

DH take home net salary is 4.5k

We have an old old car and an okish mortgage.

We live in a very expensive part of the country but when I visit family who don't I visit places like B&M/Home Bargains for home essentials.

I do spend on things like good shoes for the kids.

I'm fairly thrifty (e.g waiting for sales and buying bigger sizes in the sales for kids so will last a few years). I drive to shop in Aldi and Asda rather than Waitrose and Sainsbury's which are closer.

We have one international holiday c£3k and one UK holiday about £1.5k

I shop around for energy and insurance every year.

We have Sky etc and good phones.

We have a comfortable life.

I'm probably going to go back to work soon to help bring down the mortgage.

£4.5k a month!

DH brings in more than that a week. Last time I went to the GP she still used my first name whilst expecting me to use her title. Actually money is irrelevant, It's about equality and certain strata have yet to keep up with equality.

Agree with others saying that outgoings are an essential part of the equation.

Our family's net income is £25k per year including Tax Credits and Child Benefit. We find it very easy to live on that. We don't buy things new or go out much, but we never have to worry about whether we can pay the bills.

BUT our housing costs are close to zero because we are older parents who bought our house just before prices shot up. (Five years after we bought our house, it had tripled in value ) That makes a massive difference. I am very conscious of how much harder it is for most people in my area, who have to pay £10k more a year on rent or mortgage than we do.

It's all relative and it all depends what you spend and where you live which is why it is so hard to generalise on what is a high or good income and what is not. Also I think health is the main riches in life. I am not to bothered what I earn as long as I'm not ill.