Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to childfree@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agoWon't someone please think of the boomers?!poptalk.scrubbles.techimagemessage-square153fedilinkarrow-up1548arrow-down129cross-posted to: housing_bubble_2@lemmy.world
arrow-up1519arrow-down1imageWon't someone please think of the boomers?!poptalk.scrubbles.techScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to childfree@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agomessage-square153fedilinkcross-posted to: housing_bubble_2@lemmy.world
minus-squareSSJMarxlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-27 hours ago having a baby costs as much as a decent used car luxury automobile that’d do it.
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 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-up3·9 hours agoThis doesn’t even factor in the monetary value of the parent’s time
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 hours agoI own two used cars and, after inflation, both of them combined cost me less than the birth of my first kid.
minus-squarederf82@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 hours agoWay more than any car I’ve bought.
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
I own two used cars and, after inflation, both of them combined cost me less than the birth of my first kid.
Way more than any car I’ve bought.