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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ha. I’m Mormon and I can tell you how we do it.

1. Start having your kids as an undergraduate so you can use Medicaid to cover it (I did not do this but it is done often).

2. Get family to help with babysitting or pay a teenager to do it.

3. Family vacations are to national parks or relatives in another state.

4. Public school or homeschool and cheap extracurriculars

5. Put two kids in a room, three if you’re in NYC.

6. Budget budget budget. Lots of coupons and very little eating out. [/quote]

This is how the Mormons I know do it.  Also, I don’t know if this is unique to my area or something all Mormons do, but they are huge on food storage.  They don’t buy bread, they buy huge bags of wheat from some Mormon supply store and grind it down.  At the beginning of this month, they got a bunch of those huge pumpkins for practically nothing, baked them and puréed them.  They buy seconds at the apple orchard and make a zillion quarts of applesauce. 
Even the Mormons I know who live in apartments have a closet dedicated to a six month supply of food for their families.  
I think it takes some of the stress off of being a SAHM to know that you can at least feed your family if something happened to your husband’s job.

Anyway, I love my Mormon friends.  Hanging out with them is always cheap and easy.  I feel pretty lucky to have the benefit of a lot of LDS friends without actually having to be LDS myself.

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