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[quote=Anonymous]I chose to take about 18 months off from work, but had I stayed in my job, we would have spent an amount about equal to my take-home pay on childcare those first two years. Of course, I didn't think of that money as coming out my paycheck only -- it would be a joint expense between my DH and I. But this fact did factor into my decision to stay home because I really, really wanted to by home with my baby and the idea of going to my job every day so that I could earn just enough money to pay someone else to do the thing I wanted to be doing was very annoying to me. That bothered me way more than the money -- the fact that I wanted to be the one taking my baby to the park and story time an singing songs and playing together. It's hard to pay someone else to do something you really want to do yourself, so I didn't.[/quote]
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