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To be fair, as a working parent of two:
[b]Where are you finding sports for kids for $16/month?[/b]
Haircuts for kids start at $20-$25-ish in DC
School needs: We have two kids in public and cannot work from home, aftercare for us is $800 a month for two kids at the same school (we can at least get by without beforecare with would be additional $ but some people require both).[/quote]

I'm guesstimating $200/year per kid [b]per sport[/b].  So if your kid plays 4 sports a year it'd be $800/year on average so I'd budget $66/month.

Obviously if it is an expensive sport it would have to be higher, but that's about what I spend on my kids sports run by the town, county or school.    If you pay more, you'd need to budget more per month.

Haircuts for kids are $20-25 in DC, you say, and you get them every ...two months so?  that's $10-$13/month right?  I suggested $10/month. That's just my guesstimate again. My kids get haircuts every three months.

School needs - aftercare is definitely a big expense!  That would go under Child Care for me. If OP's $2000 needs to cover child care, that's a lot less to play with.

I was thinking of school needs as: school photos, class publishing a book, field trip $$, science fair poster board, another field trip, end of year school roller skating party -- all the expenses seem to happen in MAY for some reason BTW.
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