Gosh, it's way too depressing for me to even add up all the numbers. Mrs. Bee may do a post on this at some point...
If you can bear to do it though, would love to hear how much your baby is costing you a year!
Gosh, it's way too depressing for me to even add up all the numbers. Mrs. Bee may do a post on this at some point...
If you can bear to do it though, would love to hear how much your baby is costing you a year!
GOLD / pomelo / 5167 posts
Just on the formula and the diapers / wipes I can only image.
Luckily, my childcare and child health care isn't expensive. So I'm sure I would probably end up being at least half what it cost you and Bee.
We were lucky to get ALOT of gifts too. So other than the bedding & clothes we didn't have to buy anything for Mavi.
grape / 81 posts
yeah I don't want to see this number but we just started jack in full time day care that is $350 per week x 52 weeks is $18,200 a year. Ouchie! We really don't buy him a lot of toys and clothes, so I would add in maybe another $3K on necessities....
this doesn't take into account that we probably wouldn't have bought our home if we weren't going to have kids.
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
I haven't added the numbers up. Don't plan on doing it either! So far we've only had to spend money on necessities--diapers, wipes, gear.
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
The only figure I know is $23,500 for day care so the cost is high but my daughter is priceless.
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
I am too afraid to actually add the numbers. We have a monthly budget, we actually get a small "baby stipend" from DH's employer. It's enough to cover all his food, diapers and clothing needs for the month.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
I think I'm going to keep track of this - or at least try to - for the first year. While it's not my main focus of my blog, I do like to write about costs of things and finances. I'll include anything we buy before or after the baby is born.
I am currently keeping track of my pregnancy costs and will document those once I make my public announcement on my blog. I'll come back on here and respond to this question when I have an answer.
cantaloupe / 6669 posts
@JBHOPS - I think that's a great idea! I hope some of the blogger bees here will do that too... I'd like to get an idea of their "baby budgets" just like I like seeing wedding budgets!
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