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I'm willing to bet that if your friend added the cost of childcare to the cost of everything having to do with work, ie: commuting, clothing costs, etc-she'd find out she was working for next to nothing, maybe even less than nothing.
I left work to stay home until the kids started school. Daycare would have been just over half my take home pay and the idea of someone else raising the kids I worked so hard to get was disgusting. Easy choice. While I was home, I did work at home, labelling kitchen items for an importer-I didn't make a lot but what I made was mine and it helped.
BOR is right-once the kids come, you do cut back on some things simply because you don't have the time or need. We still did Friday night dinners out, just did it with two babies in tow. We cut out drinking beer and wine.
I shopped at Walmart and BJ's Warehouse instead of Macy's.
You make priorities is the bottom line.
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Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.
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