{"id":45222,"date":"2011-07-16T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-cost-of-babys-first-year-1000\/"},"modified":"2017-02-23T12:50:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T05:50:55","slug":"the-cost-of-babys-first-year-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-cost-of-babys-first-year-1000\/","title":{"rendered":"The cost of baby's first year = \u00a31,000"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSurveys suggest you’ll spend over \u00a39,000 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 \u00a31,000 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 \u00a39,152? Well I’ve done my own survey \u2013 kept all the receipts, recorded everything since his birth in June last year \u2013 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…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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