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I have known Catholic families who temporarily lived in trailers with 3 little children.  One family even had 5 kids in a trailer temporily while they sold one house and bought another.  It can be tough but it can be done. 

The most important thing is God first served.  The rest follows.  If you can find a woman who is willing to live frugally, you have found a gem.

When we first got married we lived in a little cabin on my parent's farm but the drive was about 2 hours from my husband's work and that was hard.  So, after a few months we bought a "fixer upper house" (even that was tough on our budget but we managed through the grace of God).  After about a year and a half (with a baby in tow) we finished fixing up the house, sold it and got enough money from that to make a down-payment on another fixer-upper house with a much better interest rate and in a better location.  Our mortgage was cut about in half.  
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My guess is, that everyone who is bashing this comment are men…who feel guilty…making excuses (?)…for not providing a real home for their family.  Sorry, but a trailer is not a real home.  You can do better than that.  Also..,as Fr Novak also said…this ain’t 1887 / Little House on the Prairie…if God wanted you to live like a Pioneer  He’d have had you born in 1887.  This is 2025…with many more opportunities for those who set goals and work hard.

Also, I’m a man…who works hard to provide a real home for my wife and six kids.  I’m not a feminist.
This comment is out of touch, the cost of living only increases, either the man marries older (he will prefer a younger woman considering his efforts) or they live more frugally. This is 2025 not 1887, housing is not cheap.

Good for you that you can provide, but does a women really "deserve" a modern home? The word deserve has a strong meaning. Who really deserves anything? We don't even deserve heaven, infact each of us deserves hell let alone a nice material house. Ideally a yes a good house, want yes, deserve no.


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I'm a young man considering marriage. Housing is extremely expensive where I live (around $1500 for a 1 bedroom apartment) 
Since you are still young, seriously consider moving to an area where the housing is more affordable.  

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My guess is, that everyone who is bashing this comment are men…who feel guilty…making excuses (?)…for not providing a real home for their family.  Sorry, but a trailer is not a real home.  You can do better than that.  Also..,as Fr Novak also said…this ain’t 1887 / Little House on the Prairie…if God wanted you to live like a Pioneer  He’d have had you born in 1887.  This is 2025…with many more opportunities for those who set goals and work hard.

Also, I’m a man…who works hard to provide a real home for my wife and six kids.  I’m not a feminist.
What you are encouraging is debt enslavement to Jews. Unless you come into money (most men don't), or have a very high paying job (most men don't, and will not no matter how "hard" they work), you will not be able to afford what you call a "real home". The only way to get a "real home" for the majority of men is to take on loans and a mortgage at usurious rates. 
Most Catholic men, most men in general, have "worked hard", raised a family, and did it dirt poor. To your's and Fr. Novak's comment about living like a pioneer, the economic situation for most young men is closer to that era than whatever you have in mind. The '50s-'60s are gone, and they are not coming back..A man can't go work as a laborer in a factory and afford a house within a year or two anymore. That was an anomaly, an exception to the rule
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Also, keep in mind the economic prosperity the US experienced after WW2, that allowed the common man to afford a "real home" while working an average job, was due to the "winning" the war for the Jews that resulted in the death of probably 30+ million white men
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I think the reasonable answer is one that sees the trailer as a temporary home.  As a step towards the more ideal home. Things are a lot worse for the younguns these days.  They may need to start their married lives in a less-than-ideal situation and work themselves out of it in time. Either that or delay marriage for quite some time.
I don’t believe things are tougher now than 50 years ago…people are weaker and less motivated.  At no time in our history has education and skilled labor training been more available than it is right now.  Plumbers Union, Steam Fitters Union, Electricians are all begging for skilled apprentices.  Banks easily make academics possible.  The question isn’t available opportunities…the question is motivation.  

A trailer is a bad start.  Marriage is tough…a good Catholic marriage is tougher…this person should get a solid career…with a LIVING WAGE…and then consider a bride and home.

Stop putting the cart before the horse.  The word selfish comes to mind.

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Also, keep in mind the economic prosperity the US experienced after WW2, that allowed the common man to afford a "real home" while working an average job, was due to the "winning" the war for the Jews that resulted in the death of probably 30+ million white men
Excuses!!  We still live in the greatest country in the world that provides unlimited opportunities for those who are willing to plan, set goals, and work hard to accomplish them. 

A goal without action is nothing more than a wish!



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I don’t believe things are tougher now than 50 years ago…people are weaker and less motivated.  At no time in our history has education and skilled labor training been more available than it is right now.  Plumbers Union, Steam Fitters Union, Electricians are all begging for skilled apprentices.  Banks easily make academics possible.  The question isn’t available opportunities…the question is motivation. 

A trailer is a bad start.  Marriage is tough…a good Catholic marriage is tougher…this person should get a solid career…with a LIVING WAGE…and then consider a bride and home.

Stop putting the cart before the horse.  The word selfish comes to mind.
You have a boomer-mentality. You start with a trailer because you don’t want to play the mortgage/debt game. Where I am, the banks are employed by Indians/immigrants and I doubt there’s a labour shortage. Boomers/old people sold their kids out and they’re giving them outdated advice like this.


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I don’t believe things are tougher now than 50 years ago…people are weaker and less motivated.

That's 100% false.  I could take the time to pick it apart, but my parents completely agree and talk about how they had it easy.

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This comment is out of touch, the cost of living only increases, either the man marries older (he will prefer a younger woman considering his efforts) or they live more frugally. This is 2025 not 1887, housing is not cheap.

Good for you that you can provide, but does a women really "deserve" a modern home? The word deserve has a strong meaning. Who really deserves anything? We don't even deserve heaven, infact each of us deserves hell let alone a nice material house. Ideally a yes a good house, want yes, deserve no.
I didn’t say modern home…houses were NEVER cheap…yes, a woman deserves a secure marriage provided by a man with a good job.  

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Boomers/old people sold their kids out and they’re giving them outdated advice like this.

Agree.  Except for the honest Boomers who will admit this.


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Excuses!!  We still live in the greatest country in the world that provides unlimited opportunities for those who are willing to plan, set goals, and work hard to accomplish them.

A goal without action is nothing more than a wish!

Nonsense.  This is absolutely absurd.  US is one fαℓѕє fℓαg event away from degenerating into a banana republic.  Social engineers have been squeezing out the middle class for a long time, to the point where the only reason that there's an illusion of there being a middle class comes from a combination having been able to buy a lot of things cheap due to Chinese slave labor and the fact that women have entered the work force (also by design).

Decloak yourself, coward.

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Also, keep in mind the economic prosperity the US experienced after WW2, that allowed the common man to afford a "real home" while working an average job, was due to the "winning" the war for the Jews that resulted in the death of probably 30+ million white men

Yes and no.  I think that the US had long been prosperous before the Jews took the country (and much of the world) into the Depression, but then after the war they let up on that.

US is a vast country with an incredible amount of natural resources and that, combined with invention and industry, was able to prosper more than other countries that either lacked the resources or else the ability to extract them.

After WW2, the Jews let up, and so those same factors were allowed to kick in (rather than to be drained by the Jews) and with the additional industrial output required to fund the war and then all the stuff the US helped rebuild (after helping to destroy it), led a a ton of post-WW2 prosperity.  Again, the Jews allowed this to happen, and then put the Cold War into place, so that the US would build up its military might ... which the Jews would then enlist to bully other countries (at least by threat) to be afraid of going after the new state of Israel.

Not quite sure what their next moves are, but they do need the military might of the US ... but sometimes a collapsing of the economy will actually boost military strength, as perhaps more desperate people enlist in the armed forces to make a living and then the government shifts resources to the military.  We see right now that while DOGE claims to be finding savings everywhere, the US just increased the military budget to a trillion dollars per year.

If the Jews feel the need to have some US boots on the ground, the only way that's going to happen is to orchestrate some kind of fαℓѕє fℓαg event, and then also bring the economy down to fill up the ranks of the armed forces.

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All excuses for not taking advantage of opportunities that are available.  I know a kid who’s mom spent her entire life in and out of mental hospitals…dad died of a drug overdose…worked 40 hours a week through undergrad…and through med school to take care of his mom.  He worked his butt off…took advantage of available opportunities and is a well respected Traditional Catholic.  With hard work, dedication, and the grace of God you can accomplish anything.  You just need to be willing to put in the hard work and accept the sacrifices along the way.  Or…sit back…typing on your keyboard…and make excuses why success is out of grasp….you of little faith.

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I used to live in one as a newly wed. There's nothing wrong with them. Why do you ask?