Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to childfree@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 days agoWon't someone please think of the boomers?!poptalk.scrubbles.techimagemessage-square154fedilinkarrow-up1568arrow-down129
arrow-up1539arrow-down1imageWon't someone please think of the boomers?!poptalk.scrubbles.techScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to childfree@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 days agomessage-square154fedilink
minus-squareSSJMarx@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-23 days ago having a baby costs as much as a decent used car luxury automobile that’d do it.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days agoI own two used cars and, after inflation, both of them combined cost me less than the birth of my first kid.
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 days 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-up3·3 days agoThis doesn’t even factor in the monetary value of the parent’s time
minus-squarederf82@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoWay more than any car I’ve bought.
that’d do it.
I own two used cars and, after inflation, both of them combined cost me less than the birth of my first kid.
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.