Children: OMG! The Cost!

Well, I wanted to be poor all my life and OMG, did it work! I thought when they were babies it was expensive, then when they became teenagers a lightening bolt hit me. The cost is phenomenal! All the lastest designer clothes, mobile phones, laptops etc. The list is endless. All of which costs a fortune. Then multiply all of that just for starters by three!

My eldest is 21 years old and working full-time now and in all honesty rarely asks me for any money. However, their was a time right through her teens that my hand never left my pocket paying for her mobile phone. Oh! Yes I remember that time she ran up a bill for over £100! I remember it well and going bonkers at her! What are playing at! Saying yes, my mother used to say to me! Do you think money grows on trees! Oh No! I turned into my mother!

When it comes to my 19 year old daughter, what can I say? The old Abba song comes to mind, Money Money Money! She is a bottomless pit and is currently in university which is costing a fortune, but it will be all worth it when she qualifies in two years time. TWO YEARS! Give me a rope now please, and mobile phones! Well, where do I begin! Cracked screens numerous times, and I particularly remember a blackberry phone she wanted the cover changed so we did and then she hated it! Huge bills as well, I’ve lost count on the amount of money it has all cost me!

Then their is my 17 year old son I have to be honest he has actually never asked for a lot and generally looks after mobile phones and all his other gadgets. That’s changing slowly as he is finding his feet in the world and starting to party and having a good time which is beginning to cost me. 

So after all the money I have spent on my three oldest children supplying everything they need for growing up in a must have society, what do I go and do?

I have two more children!

Well actually I only planned on one, but I’m really lucky I got TWINS!

Two for the price of one! Literally and the cost begins again! They are only four, but when will they have their first mobile, laptop or the latest gadget? Already the demand for certain things is starting to show!

So for the last 21 years I have been putting my hand in and out of my pocket on a very regular basis and it doesn’t look like it will stop anytime soon!

Mostly though I have enjoyed being poor and children of course have the benefits of giving you lovely memories. Love and give your life a meaning. That’s impossible to describe. WAIT! Who am I kidding?! I want my MONEY BACK !