I don’t know why there’s such a brouhaha about people buying a lot of milk. Klara quit drinking milk this summer but before that she was guzzling it by the gallon. A three-gallon jug would last her 8-9 days. I don’t drink it at all because of the high sugar content and N is lactose intolerant. So that was just one small kid. With 10 kids, 12 gallons a week is actually quite little.
It’s really ludicrous to dump on people over milk. Milk is a basic staple. It’s not like they complained over the price of beluga caviar.
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There’s a brouhaha over people buying milk? Missed that somehow.
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Somebody said that the rising price of milk is hurting them because they buy 12 gallons a week for their 10 kids. Immediately, a barrage of insults ensued telling them to buy contraception and mocking them.
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I’m 100% positive nobody would mock them if the milk was for 10 dogs.
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Exactly.
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They would though, because dogs are lactose intolerant.
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Parents with too many kids (by prog standards) are one of the groups it’s perfectly all right to dump on.
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“too many” = more than 2, or in very special circumstances, 3.
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Now a lot of them are saying more than one is irresponsible.
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They’ve been saying that for years, though. The difference is that everyone used to laugh at them.
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To be clear, last time I checked it was embarrassing to have three with the same two parents, but you get a pass if there are three or more parents involved.
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When I was pregnant with our third (which was 34 years ago), the first thing everyone asked was, “Was this planned?” Since we already had a boy and a girl, people assumed baby #3 must have been an oopsie. Of course, this was back in the days when there were only two genders. 🙂
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IKR? And what kind of a question is that? I feel like the logical next step is to ask “Were YOU planned?”
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I notice doctors (more than other professions) often have three children.
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Fertility doctors are a really creepy bunch. They like to manufacture matching sets of kids for themselves. Like two pairs of different-gender twins. I’d think that being in fertility and seeing miserable, infertile patients would give them an appreciation for any child they can have.
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Where the heck do you shop that you get three-gallon jugs? Usually the most you can get per container is a gallon—any more and sometimes you risk it going bad before you finish.
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I had to use a search engine since I have never seen such a big container of milk. As it turns out, they exist and remind me of boxed water. I’d buy them to make yoghurt with 🙂
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