Ok so there is this "news" story that I just saw on yahoo on how to save on child care costs. It lists ideas like tax credits, cutting the babysitters pay (I'm sure the sitter loves that idea!), arranging some sort of swap with another family. Another thing mentioned is finding out if your company offers discounts anywhere.
Now I have a GREAT idea how to save child care costs. We practice it all the time. Our childcare costs for a whole year YES a year. Are you ready for it? $00.00 That is what we have spent on child care for the last 7 years. Every year we shell out $0! It has been hard to come up with that kind of money it really makes you work hard for that kind of dough!
The way we do this and this may seem crazy to a few, but we take care of them ourselves! GASP you mean spend time with them??? Yes I am with them ALL THE TIME. I even homeschool them. OK stop I know what you are saying you are saying good for you but I can't do that. I don't have the patience for that. Or I don't have a degree. Or I am not qualified to teach them. I think God gives better degrees than any college, plus what do you think Adam and Eve did? Do you think there children were shipped off to be with the other kids and a qualified teacher? Did you know that public school is a relativity new idea? Did you know that in the Bible it tells us to teach them diligently? Do you think that means just how to behave? How do you think they will learn how to cook or manage the bills if you don't teach them? Do you think that the school is going to do it? Our schools are failing miserably! And who said public school is free? First they have to have the right clothes, then you have to help buy the school supplies, then you have to buy things for fund raisers, then you have to pay for the field trips. Ohhhh noooo Johnny got something on his shirt now it is stained head off to the store again because he needs more new clothes. It is not free. My homeschooling including my church covering required by Alabama is $300 a year. That is for homeschooling a 4th grader, and a 1st grader, and preschool with my 3rd child.
Ok so back to the other thing that is running through your mind. We need my income to pay the bills. Look honestly at all of your expenses. Look at the extra gas, the eating out, the prepackaged lunch items, the foods you don't have time to make yourself so you buy them now. Look at the clothes that you would not have to buy if you didn't have to compete with the others at your workplace. Your car insurance may go down due to less miles traveled. No more take out every night. Look at all those expenses including child care add them all together. Now subtract that from your take home pay. Now there is not much left, or you are even in the red huh? So take care of your children. Save yourself some money, and you would even be helping the government out. They can't seem to figure out how to get all of these children that are wayward to become responsible. That is because it is not their responsibility it is YOURS to take care of your children, and trust me your children would love to spend more time with you!
3 comments:
Very well said!! This country would be such a better place if parents would accept responsibility for their own.
I agree, well said, but how on earth do you homeschool for $300 a year? Perhaps that should be the subject of your next post...hint, hint.
You said that you have spent $0 on childcare in the past seven years. Do you mean as daycare only or even for babysitters for Friday night dates and such?
My husband and I have been without our children so few times that we can actually count them. We don't subscribe to society's idea that we need our own personal time or "date night". We have found ways to spend time alone at home and we both feel that our marriage and family are better for it.
Also, I read in your profile that you don't own a television. Our family is an oddity around here as EVERYONE owns a television, except us. We haven't owned or watched television in nearly eight years and we don't miss it at all.
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