My Last Hundred Bucks: Someone to Watch My Kid So I Can Earn Money So I Can Pay Someone to Watch My Kid
$100! It is a lot of money, and yet, it is also not a lot of money at all. Where did your last hundred bucks go, Alex Sachon?
$132: My half of the weekly daycare payment for my two-year-old son
Previously: Choire Sicha
Alex Sachon lives in Washington, D.C.
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I also live in Washington, DC. This is why I do not have a child. Over $1,000.00 a month…ouch!
Ummm… Is this a nanny, a daycare center, preschool, what? That’s seriously expensive.
@navigateher $264 for one week actually seems suspiciously cheap to me.
@acid burn um, I can’t edit, but not suspicious-suspicious as in NEFARIOUS DOINGS, just you know. Cheaper than expected.
@acid burn In here, you wouldn’t get a nanny with that money, but we pay something like $250 for a month’s daycare in a daycare center. But yeah, we also pay 40% taxes out of every paycheck, so there’s that.
@navigateher I don’t have kids but most of my friends who do report daycare cost to roughly equal their mortgage. I was thinking for DC this actually sounded a little less expensive than I’d expect too! Nuts!
That’s less than what I paid for my daughter when she was 2. Then it was, I believe, $1240/month, and now that she’s 4, it’s $1090/month. It was a big deal for us when we started paying less for day care each month than for our mortgage.
Sometimes I am amazed at how much I can make while babysitting (if I knew any more children at the moment and therefore got any jobs). So expensive! Then my mother reminded me that I am basically making sure a child does not die, so.