by Stacy aka Aunty Chang | Cut Spending, Save Money
Know what Amazon and the public library have in common? Both started off as being all about books, but both have evolved into offering WAY more than just that. Your public library is one of the best kept secrets to being a happy and successful frugaler. I’m pretty...
by Sylvia aka Mama Chang | Cut Spending, Save Money
$9,400. That’s how much less I spent on my son’s first year expenses than the average U.S. family does. In my post about the costs of raising a baby, I talk about how American parents shell out on average $16,100 for their child’s expenses during the first year,...
by Sylvia aka Mama Chang | Cut Spending, Save Money
$6712.77. That’s the total money we spent on everything related to our son in his first year, which was almost $10,000 less than the estimated average that parents spend on their newborns. We were able to keep our first-year baby costs pretty low because we took steps...
by Sylvia aka Mama Chang | Cut Spending, Save Money
$820.00 per month. That’s how much daycare costs at the center our son will attend when he turns 4. And that was the cheapest center we could find the year he was born (so you know that’s only going to go up in 4 years). It may seem like affordable daycare...
by Sylvia aka Mama Chang | Cut Spending, Save Money
$700. That’s what parents will spend on average each year their baby is in diapers. While we used a combo of cloth and disposable diapers, he was in disposables about 25% of his first year. The grand total we spent in that time? $62. That’s less than 10% of what...
by Sylvia aka Mama Chang | Cut Spending, Save Money
13 inches. That’s how much my belly grew by the time I gave birth to my son. Too bad I can’t say the same for my wallet. Recognizing that my massive belly was only a temporary state and that I would rather save the money to go towards the baby budget, I didn’t want to...