Is this show on anymore? I haven't seen it in a while but am not a real TV bug....anyways....

Don't ask me why, but I was thinking about sending my DH a new wife for awhile and then got to thinking about a family that I'd like to go live with for awhile....


If you were to be a wife swap participant (in the TV show sense only ) - who would you send to live with your DH for a week, what kind of family would you get the most out of being swapped into?

Or if not yourselves, design a wife swap for someone else you know.....be nice!!

cj/

I'd send someone in that would drive everyone CRAZY! Ha ha. I've caught the show a few times and it certainly seems like they are usually very appreciative when the *real* mom comes home!

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I'd have my son's friend's mom come in. She is a working mom (very organized secretarial type! always 'in control') and is also a very nice woman... a great mom and a great cook!!! LOL.

I think that it would be good for my kids to have a working mom for a week so that they can see how much goes into organizing the day and how little time they actually get with mom after she gets home in the evenings.

I'd choose her because I want for my oldest son to appreciate that his mom is home when he gets home and also understand why we don't always have money to buy him everything that he wants. Also, I'd like to see how much 'control' she has over my special needs son -- I think that it would be good for HER.

I think that the other family could benefit from me as well. I think that they are mommy deprived (ages 7 and 12), spoiled with *stuff*, and could use a little more laid back mommy like I am.

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HUGE kudos to working moms... and I know that many of you do a great job at it and LOVE doing it so please don't take this the wrong way. I'm not generalizing that all working moms are the way that she is but she is who I think would most represent the opposite of me and give the family a taste of what it is like.

By the way... I think from my post above that we need more of a 'Mom Swap'!

Husband/Dad is awesome... he really is.

Did any of you know that if you participate in "Wife Swap," you get $20,000?

I told DH about that yesterday and he said, "I'll keep you around, but I would consider loaning you out for $20K!" LOL I said, yeah right.... you guys would never last 2 weeks.... He has never seen the show so he has NO idea the kind of people that send in!

And I don't think I'd do well, either. Lord only knows what complete opposite of our family they'd put me in!

Suzanne

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After reading about Dolly's self-sustaining lifestyle on the LGC board, I would like to swap with a family like that. I think it would be hard and a major learning experience. I'm not sure what I'd be able to give to a family like that though.

I'd like to send my husband and kids a wife/mom who either didn't do much herself or ran a very tight ship with chores and such.

cj/

Are you talking about Dolly's 'Food Stamp Diet'? Guess I'll make a trip to LGC and see what she's up to! LOL.

Edited... I read further down in the Food Stamp Diet thread at LGC and I see what you are talking about. The 'self-sustaining lifestyle'... 'living off the grid'. YES, that would be a tough one for my family too and I don't know that I'd offer much of anything to her family as well. Funny thing is that I was raised that way. Wow...