My wife was a stay at home mom.
Yea, we lived pretty frugally but it was worth every penny. Now that we don’t need to, we still do.
We found that home schooling was actually cheaper on the budget than public school would have been.
Even with four kids. we never spent more than $1500 a year.
But we never had to spend $150 each on the school supplies list, pay extra fees for anything or get them a new wardrobe every year.
As they got older, they did do some extra activities but none were very expensive.
They turned out pretty good and include being a copy editor at a Christian publisher and an Astronautical Engineer at NASA. All are living on their own.
With ten children of my own - but only seven still at home, and when did you say you were moving, Tom? - I get where you’re coming from.
It helps if you start out living frugally. It can be hard to change if, for example, you have a big house in Fairfax County and there’s nothing more affordable in the area. You’re at the extent of your means, you discover that your public school has gone barking moonbat ... and private school is $50,000 a year.
If you try to organize an opposition to the administration, you could literally find yourself driven out of your employment by the social media mob.