Posted on 04/07/2008 1:01:59 PM PDT by Alouette
My husband and I are getting ready to do what many couples in these brink-of-recessionary times would consider unthinkable. No, we're not buying a Martha's Vineyard retreat or planning a month in St. Bart's or eco-decorating our house.
We're planning to have a third child.
What shocks people, when we tell them, isn't the thought of hauling three kids onto a place for a vacation, or even the idea of coming home every night to a houseful of runny noses and homework assignments. What gets them is the sheer financial audacity. Raising kids today costs a fortune. Last month, the Department of Agriculture estimated that each American child costs an average of $204,060 to house, clothe, educate and entertain until the age of 18.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I still think that Alouette’s rabbi growing up was actually an Irish Catholic priest in disguise. :-)
I am in the middle of prom dress / first junker car / class ring zone. It is a killer!
Good point. Diapers are ridiculous and that’s just from me seeing them in the store - no kids yet.
They are an amazing family.
This an exerpt from the comments section... when all is said and done, it's clear that liberals are ANTI-PEOPLE.
What's up with the word "excess humanity"?
Kind of like excess pounds, I guess, to be lost as soon as possible.
How extremely sad.
When our third was born, I realized that I had run out of arms, and we had run out of laps.
>>It makes her an Icon, okay?<<
I second that! And you too!
It means I did it with flair also because I have a 13 year old and 11 year old twins.
Woo Hoo!!!
We plan to toilet-train our youngest (#8, was 2 in January) as soon as it warms up so he doesn’t freeze sitting on the toilet :-).
Thrift-store and garage-sale clothes (or Wal-mart) are cheap, and you might as well by used for young children, because they destroy them. The food they like is cheap. Health insurance is “per-family.” Children are like cats: The first one totally smashes you previous life. Two is more than twice as difficult as one. Three is more than twice as difficult as two. After that, it’s all downhill :-).
Of course, my oldest is only 17, and I have to say her auto insurance fee was a shock. (We can start buying wine again when we get the baby out of diapers :-).
How many geniuses - Einstein calibar -
have either not been born or have been aborted...
That's over $11,000 a year per kid.
That's bunk.
I guess if you don't know how to economize, how to do/make things, how to cook, etc...
I guess if you have the money to spend like our Gov't "servants/representatives" it would cost that.
But they ain't 'representative of, as hitlery calls us, "the little people" and bubba calls "Joe six-pack" - like they didn't come from white trash.
or like Poor Michelle obmamama, who moans about how to afford school lunches and piano lessons for her girls (They only have about $500,000 a year coming in , after all.)
BINGO
We keep having them because we want lots of grandkids one day. If each of mine have 4 kids then I’ll get to have 16 grandkids! That’s not much. I need more babies!!! ;o)
6500 in the first year? Are you nuts...
Lets see... Mothers Milk.. FREE... food is minimal, diapers are the only major expense... If you are spending an additional $550 per month on your infant, you just need to be taken out and smacked.
Clothing? Please, you can buy it by the gross for pennies.
Carseat, crib, changing table, rocking chair and a stroller and high chair.. if you want to go wild, a swing and a bouncy seat of some kind. Done. And that’s assuming you don’g receive any of those items as hand me downs or as presents from friends and family, or don’t already own them from your first kids.
Some people are just stupid.
And BTW, I want to tell all the moms here that my mom used to say that any mother who has more than three, automatically has a place in heaven.
(she had three on Earth and five in heaven waiting for her)
Whoever said it gets expensive when they get into school is right on! We just choose to not buy all the stuff they throw at you. My girls had soccer pictures last weekend. Smallest package was $26 x 3 kids. Sooo, we didn’t get them, I am sure my kids will be scarred for life.
We have 6 kids, I am so tired of people asking us if we are done. I never ask anyone with 2 or 3 kids if they are done. I figure it is none of my business.
18 months... Potty Training your child in a day.. about $8 and worth every penny. Folks who have their kids in diapers forever that don’t have physical or mental issues perplexis the hell out of me.
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