Recently, Ding Ma’s little friend Meng Ma shared an article in the circle of friends called “Raising a Child to Eliminate a Millionaire”. Seeing this title, Ding Ma’s heart thumped at that time-does Dabao Erbao want to eliminate two millionaires?
I don’t know, one is two lines of tears!
To suffer, one cannot suffer in one’s heart! This time Ding Ma and Meng Ma will help everyone calculate the expenses of the child from birth to the age of 2.5. If the child has not chopped his hands, he can chop a few hands less.
Do you have to buy clothes?
1. Clothes, sleeping bags
The most important thing to buy clothes is safety and health. Button sewing is not good, how does the baby swallow it by mistake? What if a pile of thread ends wrap around the baby’s fingers and toes? I dare not buy a bargain.
According to the most economical plan, at least prepare for the newborn baby:
- Three to four pajamas, six to eight T-shirts, three sleeping bags, two sweaters, two hats and two pairs of socks
Even if it is an ordinary brand, it will cost 1 500 yuan in a quarter, totaling 15,000 yuan for 2.5 years.
Step 2: Shoes
During the period of 1 ~ 2 years old, new shoes will be bought for the baby about every 2 ~ 3 months.
No matter how old a child is, he needs to change his sneakers every 6 months. The old shoes should not be worn by children. First, they are uneven, second, they are partially worn, and third, they are not good-looking in short.
After counting, I bought two pairs of single shoes, sandals, slippers and boots during this period, and it was 6,000 yuan after I was one year old.
3. Diapers
Diapers are a huge invisible expense, but for the sake of hygiene and safety, the money can only be spent. It is quite painful to buy yourself a thousand yuan coat. It is easier to buy a few bags of diapers for children without blinking an eyelid.
The store imported brand diapers, one bag in 180 yuan, 70 bags in common before the age of 2.5, and 12 600 yuan.
Of course, the baby’s nutrition must keep up with it.
Breast milk is the cheapest, safest and most nutritious food for children. WHO also advises mothers to keep breastfeeding until their children are at least 2 years old. However, don’t think breastfeeding costs no money!
In order to continue breast-feeding after work, or to prevent one day when you are ill and cannot breast-feed, do you have to hoard milk? 2,000 yuan of breast pump, hundreds of pieces of milk storage equipment, breast feeder, milk warmer, sterilizer… add up to almost 6,000 yuan.
After the baby is one year old, dairy products become very important. Milk powder, milk and cheese are not cheap. Drink 4 cans of milk powder a month, according to the cheapest 200 yuan can calculation, one and a half years old weaned up to now total 15,000 yuan.
Not to mention supplementary foods, fish, eggs, milk, vegetables and fruits… need to be added in time, right? If you buy canned supplementary food, two cans a day, each can costs 6 yuan, and it costs 2,000 yuan for half a year. Hum, this is nothing, because there are still a lot of avocados for 10 yuan each, various imported fruits, organic vegetables and staple foods, and various iron supplement snacks. The cost for these two years is at least 20,000 yuan.
Vitamin D is also essential. The guidelines can say that it must be supplemented at least to the age of 2. According to the calculation of vitamin D commonly used in domestic hospitals, it will cost almost 1,000 yuan.
I want to buy everything for home use.
A crib that can use a child’s 6-year-old costs 5,000 yuan!
Why do you want to buy such an expensive one? Because you want to buy a crib with good quality, which can stand the test of time and all kinds of spare parts meet the standard (in short, it is a big name).
The baby must use the child safety seat after 6 months. This must be bought and cannot be saved! Safety seats with better quality are generally around 2,000 yuan.
In addition, foldable and transportable strollers, quilts, pillows, urine pads and other bedding, this ran for another 10,000 yuan.
Toys are a big spender
Toys are also absolutely big spenders. Cheap toys may not be of good quality, materials are not safe, and small parts are not firm. Do you rest assured? Don’t trust ah, can only buy big name ah!
When you enter Lego’s pit, you easily spend 2,000 yuan, not to mention other electric and intelligent toys. 10,000 yuan is gone again. The child is a little older, and all kinds of twisting cars, scooters and bicycles have to spend another 3,000 yuan one after another.
Medical expenses cannot be avoided if you want to avoid them.
300 yuan, a necessary ear thermometer at home, even if the child is not seriously ill, the medical kit needed for minor illness and pain alone and the cost of going to the hospital for examination and treatment add up to 8,000 yuan.
Afraid of children losing at the starting line, education also costs money.
A set of original picture books from abroad is 300 yuan, but compared with the early education class, the swimming class costs only nine Niu Yi cents. Picture books cost 4,000 yuan, swimming cards cost 3,000 yuan, and early education classes cost 10,000 yuan per year after the age of 1, totaling 22,000 yuan for two and a half years.
A rough calculation shows that the cost for 2.5 years is nearly 130,000!
In fact, Ding Ma spent about the same amount of money on Er Bao (multiplied by two). When she thought that she still had the impulse to chop her hands, that it was nearly 20 years before her child graduated from college, and that her child had to fall in love and get married, how did she run for one million yuan? Ding Ma’s heart collapsed…
Some expenses can be saved, while others are necessary: can you not buy diapers for Eva? Can you not give Eva vitamin D? Can you not give Eva a safety seat? Can you still not let Eva wear clothes? Saving money cannot save quality, let alone safety!
What can I do then?
One way is to budget ahead of time to avoid impulse shopping. The second way is to take advantage of the discount in the shopping mall to hoard goods in advance. This is not true. Ding Ma has found a reliable import mother and infant special sale mall to promote sales, helping everyone save money to raise babies and chop hands less!