my daycare costs now exceed my mortgage

madhatter2003

my checkbook is weeping. Just wrote the first check for both of them for full time daycare.

Thank goodness we got to keep DS home as long as we did.

 

LAMARBRIDE2BE

I wonder sometimes, am I in the wrong bussiness? LOL! Daycare is definately expensive, luckly we only need daycare for just the newborn(the cheapest rate I got was $40/day). If daycare got to the point where it is more than our mortgage I would be a sahm. sorry, but I do feel your pain.

chiromommyMichelle

When my older kids were small I did in home daycare, and I'm SOOO tempted to quit my job and go back to it!

duchess0727

Ugh - scary - ours starts in August at the double rate.  All I can say is thank goodness my mortgage is so low.  When we move it'll be a different story!

madhatter2003

Yeah, I guess I should be glad my house is cheap (well, relatively speaking) since my kids sure aren't 

FinnishPrincess

I never realized it, but yes, our child care IS more than our mortgage!

SportsLover

Ours is too!!!  Isn't that terrible????

KathrynMD

and, this is why we're not having a 2nd any time soon!1

madhatter2003

KathrynMD:

and, this is why we're not having a 2nd any time soon!1

yeah I said that too  

AlisaS

This posts makes me wish i lived in a LCOL area.

EveryNameIWantIsTaken

Eh, the col is fairly low where we are and it is still more for daycare than we pay for where we live.  It's fantastic! 

NYBrideInWI

I only have one LO and daycare is already more than our mortgage - but that's partially because we intentionally bought a low cost house, so that I would only have to work part time at a random job (instead of full time at a career) if I wanted to.

Valerie120408

Ugh, DS's daycare is more expensive than our mortgage already...