Comments on: My Last Hundred Bucks: Someone to Watch My Kid So I Can Earn Money So I Can Pay Someone to Watch My Kid

By: sox

sox — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:21:47 +0000

@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!

By: navigateher

navigateher — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:00:50 +0000

@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.

By: florabora

florabora — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 03:17:45 +0000

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.

By: acid burn

acid burn — Thu, 31 May 2012 21:01:54 +0000

@acid burn um, I can’t edit, but not suspicious-suspicious as in NEFARIOUS DOINGS, just you know. Cheaper than expected.

By: acid burn

acid burn — Thu, 31 May 2012 21:01:03 +0000

@navigateher $264 for one week actually seems suspiciously cheap to me.

By: Jellybish

Jellybish — Thu, 31 May 2012 20:51:34 +0000

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.

By: navigateher

navigateher — Thu, 31 May 2012 20:00:21 +0000

Ummm… Is this a nanny, a daycare center, preschool, what? That’s seriously expensive.

By: Aunt_Pete

Aunt_Pete — Thu, 31 May 2012 19:38:29 +0000

I also live in Washington, DC. This is why I do not have a child. Over $1,000.00 a month…ouch!