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So 130K in opportunity cost?

• vundercind 3y ago
  No that would have been raw spending. The difference was about $70k in imputed wages because of what we chose to do (which, again, I think almost anyone who can remotely afford not to send a kid to daycare in that first year or two, will have trouble not making that choice). Because these costs are so front-loaded, so tend to hit earlier in one’s life, you really don’t want to start doing a more-expansive opportunity cost accounting, unless you want to get depressed (I have. Trust me, don’t—sigh, so long very-comfortable-retirement-at-55!).
  • 11101010001100 3y ago
    130K in raw spending in 2 years...on what?
    • vundercind 3y ago
      Five years. Health care, child care, and everything else. At least that much. Child care would be about half of that.