jen
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Post by jen on Dec 1, 2006 4:43:01 GMT -5
Or he mighthave some rich job like lawyer (like all those other Stoneybrook dads) and also happens to be good with tools? Could happen!
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Post by sotypical42483 on Dec 1, 2006 11:59:49 GMT -5
I would guess that Hannie meant her dad is an Architect. They can make bank, which would explain the mansion I never thought about their rates, I think I always assumed all the parents paid basically the same, but I wonder if Kristy's getting like $5/hr sitting for the Papadakises or something.
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Post by macca on Dec 1, 2006 15:20:12 GMT -5
I've never noticed this before now, but in two straight books I've just read they say that in the client info part of the record book they keep a list of what rates the clients pay. I'm surprised the club doesn't have a set fee for everyone. ITA. It might seem unfair to charge the Delaneys the same fee as the Barretts (not that anyone really seems to be struggling in Stoneybrook!) but that's life, isn't it? Prices for products and services are usually just standard. Although the BSC were very professional, so perhaps they could've implemented a "concession" rate ;D Slightly OT... but why did they record the rates the clients pay? They always made a point of saying "we get to keep what we make"... isn't making a note of the fee kind of pointless? It's not like we ever hear any arguments over who sits for whom based on the potential to make more money.
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jen
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Post by jen on Dec 2, 2006 1:05:21 GMT -5
Well, they also record how much they make, so maybe they just liked recording everything ever.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2006 5:42:57 GMT -5
Maybe it made it feel more like a business to them. I could totally see Kristy insisting they do it so she could feel like it was so official. I can remember, at about twelve, loving filling in bank deposit/withdrawl slips because it felt so grown up and business like. So I always assumed a lot of the stuff they recorded was just to give them that thrill of feeling like they're running a real business, where everything would have to be recorded. I hope those sentences make sense, I just got in from work and I should probably be sleeping right now, not trying to string coherent sentences together!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2006 5:44:49 GMT -5
Oh yeah, forgot to say: Architect makes sense now! Didn't think of that last night for some reason...
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Post by baseballchica03 on Dec 2, 2006 16:46:38 GMT -5
This is from way back on Page 2, but I have some experience, so I thought I'd comment. He's not a BSC member but doesn't it say that Alan Gray's dad runs a mailing service from his home. Isn't that being paid to stuff envelopes? ^^ Can't see earning that much money, but can be wrong. Before I left work to come back to grad school, I worked for a political party. Let me tell you, mailing houses, even the really small ones, make a HELL of a lot of money. At the very, very lowest end of the scale, they charge 4-cents a piece, and that's if you're lucky and can get some kind of deal. So, say a political candidate or a business or something wanted to send a mailer to all of Stoneybrook. Even if the town was only 20,000 households, at the cheapest price of 4 cents a piece that's $800 for a few hours' work. Granted, some of that will go to costs of paying employees and machine maintenance and whatnot, but still, it's a fairly nice profit. Not a bad deal if you can get it.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jun 9, 2007 22:04:34 GMT -5
I just finished reading "Karen's Goodbye", the book where the Delaneys move, and Karen says Amanda's house in Stoneybrook is even larger than Watson's famed "big house" and her new one in Lawrenceville will be twice the size of the old one. Also, Amanda's closet in Stoneybrook is bigger than Karen's whole room. I can't believe that never made an impression on me when I was younger and reading that, but it didn't. Mr. Delaney was also a lawyer.
Oh, and $400 Priscilla plays outside? I always thought she was a strict indoor cat to maintain her pristine haughtiness...Amanda says Priscilla will have new grass to smell and new cats to play with at their new place.
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Post by aln1982 on Jun 9, 2007 23:32:14 GMT -5
^ Maybe Delaneys inherited some big time $$$ ;D Wish I would - as my dad says, the best way to get rich is to inherit ;D I was laughing a few days ago when reading one of the early books and saw that one of the girls was thrilled to make $5 (I think Mr. P gave each MA and Dawn "$5 whole!" for taking Jenny to the hospital). And in another early book, I think one of them got paid like $3 for a sitting job. What would that buy now - about 1 gallon of gas - if you're lucky ;D Those were the days.....
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Post by sparklymouse on Jun 10, 2007 17:35:09 GMT -5
For some reason I was thinking the other day that every town has a rich neighborhood. It doesn't mean that there aren't any rich people outside of that neighborhood. There were probably plenty of very well off people in Stoneybrook who didn't live in the Big House neighborhood. Not that I think Richard was rich, but he seemed like the save and investment type who would be able to retire very comfortably when he wanted to.
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Post by aln1982 on Jun 10, 2007 19:17:21 GMT -5
^ Agree. I would think that Richard didn't want to live in a more expensive neighborhood because he was "tight with money" after I read several references lately saying that he is.
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Post by lyricalangel on Jun 10, 2007 22:52:28 GMT -5
^I can totally see that too.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Nov 25, 2007 23:29:30 GMT -5
Where I live is considered middle class, althought the aveerage smallish house is 300-400 K. The next suburb over (and I mean like 2 mins away) is all "Mansions" Watson style, and they cost around 1 Million +. So it happens.
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Post by Penny Lane on Nov 25, 2007 23:49:58 GMT -5
Well, Richard wasn't raised with money right? He was poor, and that's why Sharon's parents sent her away -- right? Or was that a fanfiction I turned into canon in my head? Some of them are so good that I can't remember what is canon anymore. So it would stand to reason that he would have saved money -- he was a single dad. He didn't need a bigger house for just him and Mary Anne, so why buy one? That's a lot to clean and take care of for two people. He would also be the type to save, and have lots of insurance. When he dies, Mary Anne is so going to be set. I think (and this is totally just my imagination) that when he lost Alma, he didn't know what to do anymore. So he set out to make sure that if anything happened to him, that Mary Anne would be okay, at least financially.
Also, the size of the Firm has a lot to do with how much money he makes -- didn't he leave a corporate position to start his own firm? If it is in a smaller town, it might not make as much as he was making at a bigger firm. I'm sure he made enough, but I got the impression that he wasn't a high priced corporate heavy weight lawyer. More like the small town, family/criminal law type.
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Post by greer on Nov 25, 2007 23:58:08 GMT -5
you're right cpennylane; richard grew up working class. his dad was a mailman, i believe.
i know that richard took a lot of business trips later in the series, so i don't think he did family/criminal law. i believe it is specifically mentioned that he's a coporate lawyer.
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