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Why do people say having a baby is expensive?
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Date: March 15th, 2026 6:58 PM Author: Frum Liquid Oxygen We've gotten almost all the equipment necessary for under 500 dollars used through Facebook Marketplace (all very nice things). The only things we have left are the car seat, stroller, and high chair. Food seems cheap. I WFH and my wife stays at home. How is this supposed to be expensive? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49746339) |
Date: March 15th, 2026 7:01 PM Author: provocative orange corner you're probably not planning on sending them to expensive day care, prep schools, etc. dead broke nigs have tons of kids. it's not necessarily expensive, but it is expensive in the way many plan to raise kids. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49746348) |
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Date: March 15th, 2026 7:03 PM Author: vivacious pit Taxpayers pay for the broke minority kids with free food, housing, school, clothes etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49746353) |
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Date: March 15th, 2026 7:07 PM Author: provocative orange corner of course but i assume op is talking about how expensive it is for the parents directly. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49746362) |
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Date: March 15th, 2026 7:03 PM Author: Aromatic violet digit ratio Everything except “car seat, stroller, and high chair“ lol
You can get it done for $1500, but it’s just getting started.
No other nursery expenses? Paint, etc.?
I think you’re delusional. But the real costs don’t start until you need childcare. But your monthly nut is at least $300 for food/diapers,etc. |
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Date: March 16th, 2026 11:57 PM Author: legally female father $300 a month is a third of what my wife spends on eBay, so I think it'll be fine. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49750034) |
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Date: March 15th, 2026 7:10 PM Author: Thriller federal bawdyhouse really tough guy Most families have both parents working which mean childcare costs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49746366) |
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Date: March 15th, 2026 7:12 PM Author: supple pontificating mexican chapel This is one of those things people lie about kind of
They arent talking about the cost of having kids and feeding them. They’re talking about the cost of a Curated experience. No blacks. No ORM, god willing. And no Scummy character building bullshit.and the kid not raising themselves with screens or latchkey Scumbag shit. |
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Date: March 15th, 2026 7:15 PM Author: hairraiser copper indian lodge roommate Standard midwit discourse is always “poor people have tons of kids, why can’t you”. It apparently never occurs to them that many poor people are not smart and don’t make sound judgments. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49746375) |
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Date: March 15th, 2026 7:26 PM Author: supple pontificating mexican chapel If you build enough character your paycheck goes negative and job interviews are recursive in an extremely complicated way like in the movie Tenet where it ends before it started. The UMC want kids with No Character who are entitled as fuck but also obsequious towards their betters. Maintain the bubble at all costs, like you know how RSF is extremely dumb but doesn’t notice — that’s a bubble dweller. He votes democrat btw. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49746399) |
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Date: March 16th, 2026 9:13 AM Author: violent library knife (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49747516) |
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Date: March 16th, 2026 9:21 AM Author: translucent big church gunner wtf is ORM? "overrepreseented minority"? ---- rofl so u birdshits now want to keep ur dumbfurk future methhead kids away from nowags and nowigs who will out perform them? ljl at u losers, u cant handle the tandoor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49747526) |
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Date: March 15th, 2026 7:15 PM Author: umber mind-boggling tanning salon pozpig Don't forget the legal fees when your toddler goes running off down a busy beach and a cop finds him 15 minutes later and decides you weren't Parenting well enough. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49746376) |
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Date: March 16th, 2026 11:59 PM Author: legally female father My legal insurance covers all misdemeanors for $10 a month so I should be fine. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49750038) |
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Date: March 15th, 2026 7:27 PM Author: racy crusty locale It's the childcare and health insurance that are expensive. Direct costs of raising a kid with a SAHM if the kid stays healthy and nothing goes wrong are cheap. Closer to having a pet than what you'd think having an actual human being would cost. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49746404) |
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Date: March 16th, 2026 9:06 AM Author: vivacious pit Most millennial and Gen Z women refuse to stay home and want to be office workers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49747501) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 12:58 AM Author: Fyre festival founder (Guy living in 1980) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49750177) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 12:03 AM Author: legally female father I'm thankful that my premium will only go from $30 to $100. I think that should be offset by the tax credit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49750044) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 3:12 AM Author: Diamond Dallas Chad If you're poor and getting a big obamacare subsidy then you don't really pay more, and the same is usually true if you have insurance through a BIGCORP employer.
however, if you are buying full freight obamacare insurance without a subsidy, the cost is insane. And to add a kid to my small-law insurance (employer covers mine 100% but I'd pay 100% of any family members added) is like $900 per month per kid. That's literally the direct cost to the firm.
So basically, my wife is stuck working at a BIGCORP employer since it would be $2700/month to insure her and two kids through my job, or slightly less for a much shittier obamacare policy.
she pretty much can't be a SAHM right now because of this. I have to retire at the same time as her so we can slum it with almost-free subsidized obamacare, but I want to stay in the game and save up for another couple of years before I do that. I have like $4500 coming off my monthly nut in the next year or so from getting house and cars fully paid off. |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 12:12 AM Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois) Cr, and once they start eating "solid food," you can basically feed them leftovers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49750060) |
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Date: March 16th, 2026 9:15 AM Author: Vengeful idiot stage it's the daycare/childcare costs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49747520) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 12:13 AM Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois) Get a SAHM. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49750065) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 12:31 AM Author: legally female father (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49750107) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 12:21 AM Author: peeface they're mostly gays talking about the surrogacy cost (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49750074) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 12:31 AM Author: legally female father (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49750108) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 12:51 AM Author: the walter white of this generation (walt jr.) You won't recognize it at all until you look back 9 years in, you have 5 kids of varying ages, and you're putting $230K/year on the CSR where you used to have $60K. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49750159) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:17 AM Author: legally female father (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310913#49750190) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 3:31 AM Author: Oaxacan crime rates it's a waste of time. very expensive timewise and the benefit appears to be primarily for other people. the money probably isn't a big issue as there's some subsidy for slave rearing in the home i'd much rather leer into other peoples' lives and demand that they have children and coerce them into it when they're not. bonus points if there's some economic or political utility from it. like say i'm a nigger like disco faggot or don nigger trump or some other goytard shithead and i've just scammed a bunch of people in a polity, if i can force the scammed into having the baggage of children i can more easily ensure their silence while also sapping them of any energies they might have to deploy against me |