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[quote=Anonymous]Our costs went down that first year after we stopped daycare. (they also went down after potty training.) Extended day was cheaper than daycare, and 10-11 weeks of camp were more expensive than the same # of weeks of daycare, but not too much. But then a couple of years later, the activities took off. We went from $200 of rec soccer fees to $2,500 for travel soccer. Dance classes and gymnastics classes get more expensive. Swimming lessons or music lessons add up. Clothing and shoes and uniforms get more expensive. They eat more. There are PTA and school related expenses you might not have had for preschool. I tried to ramp up the college savings too, because I don't want to come up short. So we're not paying quite as much as we were for infant daycare, but it's damn close.[/quote]
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