Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to childfree@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoWon't someone please think of the boomers?!poptalk.scrubbles.techimagemessage-square151fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1imageWon't someone please think of the boomers?!poptalk.scrubbles.techScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to childfree@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square151fedilink
minus-squareSSJMarx@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 hours ago having a baby costs as much as a decent used car that’d do it.
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·15 hours agoUsed? After 20 years children cost well above half a mil. When you factor in all of the food, clothing, sitters, school, trips, and of course college, you’ve set yourself back by quite a bit
minus-squarethesporkeffect@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·15 hours agoThis doesn’t even factor in the monetary value of the parent’s time
minus-squarederf82@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·15 hours agoWay more than any car I’ve bought.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·16 hours agoI own two used cars and, after inflation, both of them combined cost me less than the birth of my first kid.
that’d do it.
Used? After 20 years children cost well above half a mil. When you factor in all of the food, clothing, sitters, school, trips, and of course college, you’ve set yourself back by quite a bit
This doesn’t even factor in the monetary value of the parent’s time
Way more than any car I’ve bought.
I own two used cars and, after inflation, both of them combined cost me less than the birth of my first kid.