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my daycare costs now exceed my mortgage

madhatter2003madhatter2003
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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.

 

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Re: my daycare costs now exceed my mortgage

  • LAMARBRIDE2BELAMARBRIDE2BE
    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.
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  • chiromommyMichellechiromommyMichelle member
    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!
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  • duchess0727duchess0727
    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!
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  • madhatter2003madhatter2003
    Yeah, I guess I should be glad my house is cheap (well, relatively speaking) since my kids sure aren't  Stick out tongue
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  • FinnishPrincessFinnishPrincess
    I never realized it, but yes, our child care IS more than our mortgage!
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  • SportsLoverSportsLover

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

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  • KathrynMDKathrynMD member
    and, this is why we're not having a 2nd any time soon!1
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  • madhatter2003madhatter2003

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

    yeah I said that too  Stick out tongue

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  • AlisaSAlisaS member

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

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  • EveryNameIWantIsTakenEveryNameIWantIsTaken member
    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! 
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  • NYBrideInWINYBrideInWI
    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.
    Married June '03. DS born Jan '09. DD born Feb '12. No, we didn't choose to be childless for the first 6 years, only the first 3.
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  • Valerie120408Valerie120408
    Ugh, DS's daycare is more expensive than our mortgage already... Sad
    2007 BFP#1 MMC 12w; 2008 BFP#2 DS1; 2010 BFP#3 DS2; 2011 TTC; 2013 Pursuing DIA
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