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another baby later, we decided to do an update on how much the first five years have cost. TL;DR: Over 5 years we’ve spent about $106,760 in cash, or about $150,000 including lost earnings. By far the biggest costs for us were housing, childcare, and lost wages of a stay-at-home parent. (at the one-year mark) How much does it cost to raise kids? Ok, this graph looks ridicu*ous because most categories are so much smaller than housing and childcare that you can’t see them, but that’s probably the point. People talk about baby gear and diapers costing money, but they just don’t hold a candle to the big two. And that’s just counting what we paid in dollars. Here it is with my lost wages (post-tax) included: So overall we’re about $151,690 short of what our child-free selves might have (as*uming we neither donated nor invested the money). We’re also ahead by an unknown number of kisses and games of Lily-burrito. With the exception of buying a house, most of your costs don’t come all at once. So how to the costs actually come each month? Some costs scale with having a second child and some didn’t. The biggest differences were 1) moving towards more paid childcare 2) moving to a house where each kid had a bedroom, instead of sharing our bedroom as Lily did for the first two years. Of course some of this is more affected by the pas*ing time than by adding additional children — if we’d had just one child, we still would have moved useful for years and will eventually make the house sell for more. I’m instead substituting the cost at which we currently rent our where you live. Remember that your housing size won’t scale with your family size unless you move to a larger place every time you have a baby, so you’ll likely have some crowded years or some spare space. transit). Duplicate childcare while traveling (when either parent takes one child with them on a work trip). with housemates, we started counting the kids at half an ad*lt share when they turned 1. This is probably an overestimate of what they eat.