Nope, I love love my wife, and she's a Hottie.Peggy and Her Bike

BTW: We'll be married 30 years in August. :eek:

Think about it this way:

Imagine the exact opposite of your family and that's what you'll get. I'm sure she'll be an obese woman who smokes cigarettes and lounges around the house all day watching soaps and Oprah. She'll make fun of your spandex, tease you about your commitment to fitness, and berate you for your BMI.

Then imagine what your wife will go through. The other husband will be a fat, smelly slob who has a pasty, hairy belly hanging out between a wife-beater and stained sweat shorts. He'll chain smoke as well, and his kids will resent their own existence.

Is two weeks of that worth $20k? :D

Is it a full swap? I mean do you have to engage in "thorough" marital relations, including intimacy? Anyway I look at it the answer is a big "no" regardless of money.

My wife watches the show and I told her the other day they were looking ofr a triathlete family, but we don't have kids and I think they want families with children. My concern with show's like this is that you give them 100% editorial control and they can make anyone look very bad or very sypathetic all through clever editing. The results are a characiture of the people and not the people themselves. They all come across as extreme and a little crazy as it makes for good TV.
The $20,000 may be subject to the same kind of taxation treatement as game show winnings, so that' 50% right off the top. Rob, personally I would pass, it's a lot of trauma and drama and I can bet you dollars to donuts there will be many aspects of the final product you will be very dissatisfied with.

Yikes, that show is still on? I wouldn't do it, I have enough stress.

I've watched it a few times to try and figure out why anyone would do it. Now that I know you could get 20k out of it, it makes a bit more sense.

It's interesting though how each family will fight with the new mom in the beginning and then happily adhere to her wants in the end. Staged.

I guess as long as you tell everyone you know what the real deal behind it is so they don't think that that's your family's real persona, then the 20k "might" be worth it. But if you're only going to really get 10k out of it because of taxes, it's definitely not worth it. It should be at least 50k to be fair.

Are you still taxed on it if you donate it to a non-profit as soon as you get the check? If not, then it might be worth it.

And as we all know, money doesn't buy happiness. There should probably be a deeper reason for you to want to do it, rather than the surface reason of moolah. I'm not really sure what the deeper reason would be though.

this is probably not far off, given where television is these days...
unless you are the provocateur-type, i'd say no

I'd say no. Think it messes with the kids too much - if it was just a couples thing might be different. But again, that is a lot to put kids through.

Actually, I wouldn't plug Trifuel. I wouldn't do it at all (for all the reasons already mentioned), but if you do, you don't know if you're going to end up being the mean character or the good character when the producers develop the episode. Without that advance knowledge, this might not be the kind of 'product placement' that is good for Trifuel or the sport!

I would SO do Survivor! That looks like a blast!

20k is not enough to do that--honestly. Thought about Survivor, and even the milllion is not enough to get me out there. Once that is taxed you are only looking at a fraction of the money--not worth starvation and not showering for a month plus (at least for me)

I think I would do the "Amazing Race". It looks like fun, you can eat a meal and sleep in a bed at the end of the day. You also get to see the world. I think first prize is one million.

LOL!!!!! :D

Considering how much I depend on her for... 20k isn't enough, considering it takes a special person to put up with me.

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