When people think of having kids they always think about how expensive they will be, but I think what they usually think of is the clothes, diapers (when they are babies) food and toys they will have to buy the kids.    But I don’t know (at least I never really did) how expensive they get as they get older!  After we had our kids that’s when my sister started warning me about that.   When they are little, you can find clothes for them at garage sales, but the older they get the harder it is as older kids tend to be a little rougher on their clothes.

Then you have the teenager years when they want to go out to movies and shopping with their friends, the acne starts so you have to start buying acne cleanser type stuff,  let alone all the clothes and school stuff.   Then the high school years come and  you have more expensive school things (now they want a laptop or they need a special calculator for math) they are old enough to take drivers education which means a lot more money.  Not just for the classes, but as soon as they can drive your insurance sky rockets, plus some kids might think they need to have a car of their own.  I know we used to just borrow our parents car when we needed to go to work and to school, but we were lucky as my Dad ended up getting a work car  so we had that extra car around our house.

Oh!  Another big thing I forgot about… TEETH!!!  Our kids dentist already gave us a heads up to start a slush fund for the kids teeth as BOTH of them will be needing braces!  UGH!  Why do I have a feeling it will never end?!?