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[quote=Anonymous]we had kids in ours mid 30s with dual HHI of about $150k and we made it work -- my work had a 6 month maternity leave option, which I took, both times.

They gave me a more demanding/prestigious job when I returned, which stunk but not much I could do about it -- after 6 months, I asked to drop to 4 days/wk and they let me. Of course, we cut our income 20% to do so. BUTBUTBUT, my MIL also wanted in on childcare -- asked to do 1 day/wk -- between her day and my day, we were able to drop to PT daycare and pay just 3 days/wk.

that saved maybe $700/month at least -- can't remember now. it was tight for a while....and still is chaotic. but eventually one goes to school and that's a big cost savings.

After a mega-fight with a boss and several years of dues-paying, I was able to flip my work schedule to start at 6 a.m., spend less time in traffic and get home when older child was finishing kindergarten. Boom -- no aftercare costs. DH paid dues, was able to WFH almost 90% of time pre-pandemic -- so while I was doing early work shift, he got kids out of house and off to school.

Our youngest is in PreK now -- the pandemic is obviously its own beast -- but our childcare costs are about 1/3 what they were a year ago....and probably 20% of what they were 3 years ago.
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