Quote (duffman316 @ Jul 19 2021 03:05pm)

I just did baseball and basketball with friends and kids in the neighborhood on school grounds which was free cept for the equipment. We used one bat, a tennis ball and barehands for baseball cuz broke.

It sounds like you were in competitive leagues?

The grocery bit still seems crazy to me but ill see when i get there.

Quote (duffman316 @ Jul 19 2021 10:27pm)

So It's been well understood for a while that the govt pays you to have babies but i never knew exactly how the math works out and just started tinkering with a few of these online calculators.

If you're working a 30k job in canada, it seems like ramping up your skills to get an 80k job has the same impact on your monthly income after taxes as pumping out 5 kids.

Feel like im getting ripped off here 🤔

https://ativa.com/canada-child-benefit-calculator/

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Jul 19 2021 01:33pm)

Yeah but then you have 5 kids eating a good chunk of that money.

Quote (Kuggergug @ Jul 19 2021 05:15pm)

Kids are an investment though. Raise them right and they will be able to help you later in life.

Quote (SBD @ Jul 19 2021 02:51pm)

Food, sports, gas, other after school activities, clothing.

I easily eat $500 dollars of groceries per month and I ate more as a growing teen id bet. I bet my mother spent 100 dollars a week easy on gas driving us around and that was at 60 cents a liter. I played sports 6 days a week a times and my brother 3-4. That's before going to friends houses.

Quote (SBD @ Jul 19 2021 05:15pm)

Yes I played rec league, spring league and played competitive in the provincial league the same time. I down hill skied in the winter and in the summer I was an avid slalom water skier.

Mom slaughtered chickens and dad worked climbing telephone poles, i would have to imagine that outside their mortgage forcing savings they would have put nothing away during the time I was born until I started working in my teens.

No daycare costs though since I just got off the bus at an old ladies place and helped her. Daycare here though is now 750 per month for the low end.

I certainly didn't have nice things like the popular group but I did a ton of stuff athletics wise and dad was a jack of all trades so I had a skidoo from the dump and an ATV that we retrieved out a lake. My parents also never travelled even a single time until I left the house, just no money for it. I had never left my own province outside one school trip until I was 23.

When theyre pissing and shitting all the time my brother has easily dropped close to $1,000 on diapers in the year. Its so easy to get him Christmas gifts now.

Where's ^bazi i'm sure hes dropping cash left and right and its a newborn.

Quote (duffman316 @ Jul 19 2021 06:41pm)

I always thought competitive leagues and skiing were for rich people's kids. Surprised to hear normal people even try though i guess its possible if you don't do vacations. Did you have your own room or was it shared with your brother?

Back on topic just asked a friend of mine who just got through his sons first year and he said it was about $6k spread out over the year for a 0-1 year old. Mind you they are well off.

Quote (duffman316 @ Jul 19 2021 05:41pm)

I always thought competitive leagues and skiing were for rich people's kids. Surprised to hear normal people even try though i guess its possible if you don't do vacations. Did you have your own room or was it shared with your brother?

Back on topic just asked a friend of mine who just got through his sons first year and he said it was about $6k spread out over the year for a 0-1 year old. Mind you they are well off.