Hah! Those are the best too – random presents. I’d much prefer those than ones on my birthday :)

Heck yeah man, you guys are killin’ it over there! And you’re totally right – I forgot about taxes!! I gotta go back next time and incorporate that in – good catch. Maybe it’ll wipe away my $50/mo padding I’ve added in for when I forget to track stuff, haha…

Keep up the $200!

wowwww VERY cool! it’s true we get killed with insurance over here, but oh well… not gonna NOT have a baby cuz of it, eh?

8??? I could have sworn she was like 4 or 5 the last time I remember :)

So so far I have spent around
Kid 1 (5) = $300 (birth costs) + $500 + $200*12*5 = $12800
Kid 2 (3) = $2000 (birth costs) + $200*12*3 = $9200
Kid 3 (1) = $10 (birth costs) + $200*12*1 = $2410
Total Spent = $24410

So my main difference on spending is lack of day care which is a huge cost man!!

But you forgot taxes!!! Each kid saves me $1000 in taxes (child tax credit) a year, plus $3600 personal exemption ($3600*.25 marginl rate = $900) . So each kid has saved me

Kid 1 (5) – $5000 + $3600 = $8600
Kid 2 (3) – $3000 + $2700 = $5700
Kid 3 (1) – $1000 + $900 = $1900
Total Saved = $16200

Total bottom line = $8210 for 9 kid years or $912 a year per kid. Yes some of these will go up with more activities later on in life, diapers and formula will go down, savings for college isnt tracked here, and it is difficult to quantify the added cost of a slightly larger home to accomodate my family (which is definitly the biggest actuall cost). But on a recurring cost basis they are pretty cheap :-)

Man, this post makes me sooo glad to have government employee health insurance and retired parents, because those insurance costs and daycare bills are a killer. We’ve managed to keep our monthly baby-related costs to an average of about $200, and it’ll probably actually go down a bit soon since that number included hospital co-pays/deductibles and well as some cloth diaper start-up costs. ;-)

And don’t worry too much about this year going by quickly. The next years will go by MUCH faster! Mine’s eight and she grows up noticeably about every week or so these days.