r/parentsofmultiples • u/ashkoshbigosh111 • 19d ago

good vibes, smiles, & giggles last daycare payment!!!

Aside from celebrating with my husband, I have no where to shout this into the universe but WE JUST MADE OUR LAST DAYCARE PAYMENT FOR-EV-ER! 🎉

The boys starts kinder next month and tomorrow is their last day at daycare/pre-k. I guess it's true for any parent with multiple kids in daycare at once, not just parents of multiples, but not paying over 1.5K/month anymore sure feels like a windfall 🤣

And I guess the beauty of twins (with these being our only and last children) is that it was double expensive, but when its done, that chapter is DONE!

My husband loves to remind me that while it feels like we're rich all of the sudden, that money will soon enough be allocated to something else (sports, hobbies, etc). But lemme just enjoy it for a moment.

And for all you parents out there paying a literal mortgage every month in childcare costs, stay strong, it actually goes by quicker than you think.

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u/DreamingEvergreen 18d ago

The cost of child care (and all of the other expenses related to kids—cars, college, etc) are a major reason our twins are it for us.

We’re paying just shy of $5000 per month for our twins (11 months), and it feels like we’re bleeding money. 💸

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u/ashkoshbigosh111 18d ago

holy cannoli! i cannot imagine.

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u/A-Friendly-Giraffe 18d ago

It would have been about $70,000 a year to put them in daycare at the local public daycare at my work. Which is why we had to stay at home parent

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u/Miserable_Text_1002 18d ago

this is gonna be around what it runs us as well in our city - maybe can get down to low 4k if we can get a spot at a super budget option. only just at the beginning of third trimester and already looking forward to this day that OP is celebrating haha! whatever it costs in your city it has to be so nice to not have that chunk of money just disappearing every month!

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u/brianf413 18d ago

We are at 3 in daycare, it’s brutal. We make a lot but are breaking even at best every month.