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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn’t sound like it’s a good idea for your wife to stay at home. She sounds like she spends a lot of money on unnecessary expenses. You need to suck it up and find a good daycare center. You cannot afford a nanny on your salaries in this area.  I would put off having a second until you can agree on how to raise the one you already have. Good luck. [/quote]

This. Her spending (on wants, not needs) is already ridiculous, but at least the $100K she’s bringing in helps to offset that. Without working? No way.[/quote]

100% agree. She is in no way living a 100K life style in DC. Her lifestyle includes your joint paychecks. When you drop her 100K and add an additional human plus all of the ways more money will be spent while home, plus another potential kid soon, dear Husband, dropping a few of those expenses is an understatement. Your income for a family of 3 and maybe 4 in this area does not allow for monthly expensive hair, nails, food service, college saving accounts, vacations. And forget saving for a house.

As another poster said, she sounds high maintenance so fancy kids clothes (babies need a whole new wardrobe every 3 months) fancy strollers, membership to this museum and the zoo etc etc.

I am a sole working Mom of one (with your similar salary), OP and definitely could not add the expenses that you mentioned, plus another adult and maintaining my savings, investing, college funding, vacation funding at my current level.

Good Luck, I support your position![/quote]

These are excellent points.  OP you are are going to financially drowned if she SAH, plus you have another kid, plus try to buy a house (you're in a condo, right?) and the cost/maintenance that comes with that.  She is going to spending MORE than currently does, not less[/quote]

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