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[quote=Anonymous]Including aftercare, we spend about $500-600 on activities for one elementary-age child. Our aftercare is really inexpensive. The big ticket items are swim and dance. Everything else is pretty negligible, like a $50 fee for a running club that covers 3 months of practices. We take advantage of school-based clubs and programming whenever we can, mostly because it's more convenient and she can do it with kids she already knows, but a nice side effect is that these tend to be more affordable.

I would get it will get progressively more expensive as she gets older and would not be surprised to be spending $1500 or more a month by high school. With one kid this doesn't seem like a huge deal. It also feels like we are constantly outgrowing costs which then make it easier to just plug that money into activities. You just go from spending money on childcare and diapers to spending it on sports and enrichment. We're still spending less now than we did when she was two. If it creeps back up to $2000-3000 a month in high school, oh well -- that's what we spent for the first 4 years of her life, too, so it doesn't seem like a big deal if that was what we also spent for the last 4 years of her childhood. It's temporary -- I'm not going to be paying for dance lessons and swim team for the rest of my life, but I'm happy to pay for it as long as she loves it.[/quote]

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