If you didn’t know already, babies are money-eating monsters. As discussed in the previous article, the cost of raising a single child from birth through high school is a quarter million dollars.
But that’s just the direct costs.
Let’s look not only at those direct costs, but also the opportunity cost of child rearing.
A United States [...]
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Would you pay $1,000 for something that you could get — of equal quality — for $1? If you use disposable batteries, that’s exactly what you’re doing.
The electricity you get from a disposable battery, according to Eric Giler, is thousands of times more expensive per kilowatt-hour than the electricity you get from the wall. [...]
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The median household in the United States spends 19% of their budget on transportation. However, in the suburbs, that cost can rise to more than 40% of the budget. Suddenly, the suburbs don’t look so cheap — living closer to the city center cuts your transportation costs but housing is more expensive. [...]
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