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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  1807 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: May 8, 2019

You can do kids on the cheap but only if you're a terrible, sociopathic parent.

We've spent substantially less on a whole buncha stuff than most anybody I know and according to Quicken that kid still costs me more per year than an 800-series BMW would. And she's six. No orthodontia, all activities firmly in the "just punking around" price bracket, and her medical expenses actually pay me because it's an experimental treatment (goes into a fund for her education, but still the number is positive not negative).