Can we afford to SAH?

[Anonymous]

Of course you can stay home. For kids, plan on about $20 a day for activities and you will be fine.

[Anonymous]

An SES at the SEC is paid at close to this level, I expect awards would get you there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will you be able to get your old position/salary back easily in case you don't enjoy staying at home?

Possibly, but I think it's always a risk to get off the career carousel. I'm going to assume it won't be easy to get back to my old position and salary so that's why I ask if we can afford to SAH on just DH's income.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course you can stay home. For kids, plan on about $20 a day for activities and you will be fine.

This is very helpful, thank you. If I SAH, will I still need to hire a nanny/baby sitter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will you be able to get your old position/salary back easily in case you don't enjoy staying at home?

Possibly, but I think it's always a risk to get off the career carousel. I'm going to assume it won't be easy to get back to my old position and salary so that's why I ask if we can afford to SAH on just DH's income.

we make it on 100k - you will be just fine unless you have some huge expense we are unaware of.

[Anonymous]

No, you cannot afford to SAH.

[Anonymous]

A ha! Baby budget calculator

http://www.babycenter.com/baby-cost-calculator

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course you can stay home. For kids, plan on about $20 a day for activities and you will be fine.

This is very helpful, thank you. If I SAH, will I still need to hire a nanny/baby sitter?

no you won't "need" to. why would you need to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course you can stay home. For kids, plan on about $20 a day for activities and you will be fine.

This is very helpful, thank you. If I SAH, will I still need to hire a nanny/baby sitter?

no you won't "need" to. why would you need to?

Because even SAH parents need breaks and time off too?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course you can stay home. For kids, plan on about $20 a day for activities and you will be fine.

This is very helpful, thank you. If I SAH, will I still need to hire a nanny/baby sitter?

no you won't "need" to. why would you need to?

Because even SAH parents need breaks and time off too?

If you are staying home to get a nanny then I am confused. Surely you know you can afford an occasional babysitter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course you can stay home. For kids, plan on about $20 a day for activities and you will be fine.

This is very helpful, thank you. If I SAH, will I still need to hire a nanny/baby sitter?

no you won't "need" to. why would you need to?

Because even SAH parents need breaks and time off too?

If you are staying home to get a nanny then I am confused. Surely you know you can afford an occasional babysitter.

Surely she knows that she can afford to have children on a 250k hhi. But she doesn't "know" because she is a troll.

[Anonymous]

You should leave the workforce, because you seem extremely unintelligent.

[Anonymous]

You will be just fine on that income. My DH makes the same and we also live in Clarendon and I SAH. You'll need baby sitters only occassionally for things like dentist appts, but I often schedule those when family comes to town to visit or when DH can take a few hours off work. Of course if you have more money you may want to hire a sitter more often to give yourself a break, but that is optional.

Some expenses go up, diapers, maybe a little more takeout in the early days when you're too tired to cool. But we go out way less often, I wear cheap target clothes instead of more expensive work clothes. Baby activities are pretty cheap, check arlington county's mommy and me classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You should leave the workforce, because you seem extremely unintelligent.

yes and of course we know only intelligent people are allowed to work (looks around at coworkers, shakes head and sighs deeply)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should leave the workforce, because you seem extremely unintelligent.

yes and of course we know only intelligent people are allowed to work (looks around at coworkers, shakes head and sighs deeply)

well yes... there is that. LOL!