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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These posts are insane. We are a dual income household comfortably living on $200k total. We could probably live on 1 income without daycare expenses. It’s all about your lifestyle and trade offs. [/quote]

I'm guessing you will not have fully funded college plus grad school for each kid ($70k * 7 years= $500k per kid at least), and if any of your kids have extra educational needs, you won't be able to switch to private school or hire tutors.  Also presumably no sleep away camps.

Fine that you don't want those things, but if I'm the working husband, I'd be pretty pissed if my wife insisted on staying home and we couldn't afford those things.  [/quote]

If you’re the working husband and you’re pissed that your wife wants to stay home and take care of your children rather than amass half a million dollars per kid for their college fund, it’s because you’re pretending you care about the college fund when in reality you want to protect your own paycheck/assets for the inevitable divorce that you know is coming down the road when you get bored of your wife and want some strange.[/quote]

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