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[quote=Anonymous]Putting aside all the angries on this thread - the major issue is this: You need to pay for whatever you think your kid needs to live the life you want them to have using the means and limits your life. And it's going to be more expensive than you think.

If you can mitigate childcare costs with more flexible job hours or with family care - awesome! If you bought a house pre-bubble in a good neighborhood- great! Don't want to send your kid to preschool? That's fine too! But, despite whatever expectations you have now, you may indeed want your kid to take soccer with all his friends, you may find you don't trust the DPR summer camps or can't get in, and you need to attend the expensive ones. Perhaps it's imporant to you that your child have music lessons. Your work might be so unpredictable that you need a nanny, not daycare and its possible that your kid will need special formula, braces, therapy or other.

If you are someone who is very frugal in your own life and forgoes many expenses your peers have, you will probably spend less than average on your kid. But you will still spend a bunch.

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