Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
General Parenting Discussion
Reply to "Do kids really not get less expensive after the daycare years?"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous]The fixed costs become less expensive unless you are doing private school. The “extras” can get very expensive for sure. Sports fees (travel teams or things like private lessons can get extremely pricey). Cell phones and computers. Clothing- I have three teens/tweens growing rapidly and it is $$$. Travel expense and other “fun” expenses tends to rise as kids become full price. Food certainly gets far more expensive- tweens and teens usually eat more than adults. That doesn’t even get into the teen expenses like cars, auto insurance, test prep courses and fees etc. For most people, the extra expenses + ramping up savings for college end up rivaling daycare costs I would imagine. But most of those are indeed “extras”. Obviously one could shop for clothes at thrift stores, do rec or school sponsored sports and activities only, no driving for teens, no cell phones or just cheap flip phones, minimal expensive family activites or travel etc. [/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
