Property News · July 16, 2011

The cost of baby's first year = £1,000


Surveys suggest you’ll spend over £9,000 on a child’s first 12 months. Nonsense, says Hilary Osborne, you can do it for much lessI’ve never wheeled Wyn round in a £1,000 Silver Cross pram. He’s never had a cashmere babygro, nor Waitrose baby food. And those surveys, such as one by LV=, which tell you that the cost of a baby’s first year averages £9,152? Well I’ve done my own survey – kept all the receipts, recorded everything since his birth in June last year – and the truth is that you can give a baby everything he or she needs and keep the cost down to the hundreds rather than the thousands.Yes, I admit that in those first few weeks it was a struggle to remember to pick up the nappies and cotton wool I’d paid for, let alone the receipt. I have no idea how much we spent on those emergency missions to the shops, but things calmed down relatively quickly, and since then I have been able to keep track of my spending. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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