I had in the back of my head the horrifying concept that raising a kid to age 18 costs something on the order of $100,000. I realize now that I got that number from a Calvin and Hobbes comic, and the actual number is much, much scarier.
Roughly $269,000 to $330,000 per kid. To age 18. That doesn’t include helping them with college tuition or diesel repair school.
There’s a guy here at work who has 8 kids. I’m sure he gets a volume discount, though.
Maybe the Calvin and Hobbes estimate was in 1982 dollars.
Or anytime before the gas prices went up.
I wonder what the differences are between the $269,000 model and the $330,000 model. Does the $330k version include better upgrades?
Its like the difference between a Lexus and a Toyota. Chrome, Baby, Chrome!
I think the degree of vandalism.
In one case, the child colors on the wall. In the latter, the child colors on a Van Gogh.
There’s a guy here at work who has 8 kids.
Autistic Bob works at the new place too?!
There’s one in every engineering organization, apparently.
Except this one is not autistic, and in fact quite personable. Though I’m told he’s a bit of a DisneyWorldoPhile.
I would imagine you’d need to be damn personable to get eight kids.
That actually sounds pretty low to me.
That’s what frightens me.
Even more….
Hunter S. Thompson put it at $30K/year so that’s over a half mill.
“That doesn’t include helping them with college tuition or diesel repair school.”
… or paying for a wedding, if you have a daughter. And any money left.
Since I will have a daughter soon, I plan to be a terrible father, putting her off relationships for the rest of her life. So… nipped in the bud, no problem there.