Word: sams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before long, Doris had made up her mind. She would watch Sam during the day, while Lori worked, along with her daughter Barbara's children two days a week. "I knew it would make me tired," Doris says. "But what's more important than my grandson?" She won't take any money from her daughters, although she buys most of the grandchildren's clothes and has turned her tidy home into a day-care center...
...Parts and spent 15 years there, starting at $5.25 an hour and eventually making $35,000 a year. But the job was boring, and the predominantly male shop didn't seem understanding about her pregnancy and how everything was different now. When she went back to work after Sam was born, she quickly jumped at Cavataio's offer to go to RPM, as long as he would match her salary. She started three weeks later, and has barely taken a lunch break since. "I care about what's going on here," she says. "I want it to be just right...
Lori wheels her station wagon into a spot outside the Wal-Mart, a 20-minute drive from her home. She likes to go late at night, after Sam is asleep, for some solitude among the bargains. But on this Saturday morning she's there by 11, filling her cart with four winter shirts for her son, four ladies' shirts, baby wipes and formula, paper towels, a flea comb for her two cats, 136 diapers, and a box of graham crackers to occupy Sam, who's strapped happily into the front of the cart. The total comes to $146.13. "I thought...
...standing still. "I guess I'd say I'm lower middle class," she says, even though when Mike is doing well with his windows, doors and siding business, their household income can hit about $60,000. "I didn't feel that way four years ago before I had Sam, when I was making the same amount of money. I thought I was doing pretty damn good. Now it's nothing to get excited about." Lori keeps the household books. "I'm an incredible bill payer," she says, "but a terrible saver." Last week she called her mortgage officers to learn...
...back? Then I do the books, and I see it deducted from the payroll, and I think, Someone else is using my money." Glancing across the restaurant to a pair of women in their 70s having coffee, she adds, "I wonder if there will be anything left for me. Sam certainly won't see a penny...