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My partner and I are generally very frugal (ie: we thrift shop, only buy flyer deals, discounted food\/produce, we don\u2019t splurge much on anything other than necessities, we have an impressive savings rate of 50% of both our incomes.)<\/p>\n
We are expecting in the New Year and keep hearing about how expensive children are – obviously we both have no idea as we\u2019ve never had any, but to us, since we\u2019re already very frugal, and plan to remain that way, we don\u2019t know where the major expense comes from.<\/p>\n
Likely won\u2019t do daycare, I will be self-employed (e-commerce and relatively hands off) in an effort to save on daycare costs, will thrift clothes, we home cook nearly all meals and know how to stretch food, and our extra curricular activities are usually low cost or free.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d like to hear from other people like us: is it reasonable to assume that children don\u2019t HAVE to be a huge expense if you don\u2019t let them become that?<\/p>\n
*Edit: Remove daycare costs, what\u2019s second to that?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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