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[quote=Anonymous]So not everyone does full time day care. But the costs are this:

- Full-time "good" day care is anywhere from $2,500 - $3,500 a month outside the home
- Aftercare/summer camps for full-time working parents can be around $15K for the year
- Gear for babies can be inherited or thrifted or purchased all new and fancy for $20,000
-  Eventually activities costs range from $250 a class to $5,000 a year for a sport
- Food costs, clothing and shoes, all that stuff adds up (figure up to .75% what you pay for an adult until the teenage years, when it's the same)
- Extras include medical expenses (anything form more copays to meds to therapies), extra hotel rooms on vacation if you need a larger room, bigger car, toys, the Disney plus subscription, you want to move from a condo to a house and re: schools suddenly you need to look at Vienna or Bethesda instead of Mt Rainier or Annandale, it's little and big things that add up

By no means do all families do these things. We lived in DC (free preschool) and I stayed home the first year, working PT in my "spare time" and then age 1-3 we did daycare at a home daycare 2 days per week while I worked PT. But now with a high schooler, I would say we spend about $10K a year on sports and extracurriculars and school related stuff (kid is in public), $5K on additional food/clothes/stuff beyond what we'd do for a childless family, and of course our house and car and neighborhood are informed by the fact that we are parents. [/quote]

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