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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ing money on work clothes
Child care including afterschol care
Meals eaten out (or takeaway) that you do because you are too busy or too tired (not incl. date nites)
Money spent on commuting or parking, etc.
Also yard work and maintenance (I currently do my own mowing weed whacking etc.)

Thank you[/quote]

Our HHI is roughly $200K (about $100K each).

Work clothes, we both work in business casual environments and don't spend extra for work clothes.
Daycare for toddler twins $34K
Roughly $30 per week.  We probably each out once/week although we don't have to.
No money spent on commuting parking.   Daycare is in the building one of us works in and the other parent works 4 miles away with free parking.
We spend about $800/year for yard/landscaping care for fertilizer, weed control, etc.  But we use the same service that we used pre-kids, so kids have not added any to our budget.

I would estimate that it costs us about $40K for us both to work outside the home.  But more importantly, we both have a lot of benefits including retirement, insurance, LTC, in addition to the salaries.  It is definitely worthwhile for both of us to work. 
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