Raising a child is really expensive. Do you have any tips for saving money in your daily life?
Let’s hear the story of @PearlMother from Lilac Mama Planet.
It is really expensive to raise a baby: I buy picture books in the east market, toys in the west market, fart food in the south market, and snacks in the north market. , The little money that I finally earned is easily gone.
After more than a year of groping and struggle, I finally understand a truth: if you want to raise a good baby, you can’t buy it, the key is to save money, and saving money is the way to sustainable development important way.
To this end, I summarize the “three magic weapons” that are effective:
Don’t listen to cheating
Saving money is not about digging. It is not about buying nothing for children. It depends on what to buy for children, especially who asked them to buy them. If the person is a salesman, then The extent to which it will be a big question mark.
Every time I take my child to the supermarket, I am filled with compliments: “Wow, this child is so cute.” “This child is dressed so beautifully.” “This child looks good.” It’s really strong!”, others say I still believe it, but people who sell children’s milk, children’s toys, and children’s clothing say it, and then most of the time they invite people into the store to take a look.
But as soon as you enter, the second round of cheating begins again: “Kids love to eat this kind of snack” “Kids all need this kind of supplement” “Your child wears This dress is so beautiful!” This made the parents particularly passive, but luckily the child was young and didn’t know how to “take advantage of the fire”, so I hurriedly hugged the child and left quickly. After I’ve been employed once or twice, every time I take my child out, I always have a clear shopping goal. When someone comes to praise the child, after a few polite greetings, I leave the venue quickly.
Shopping malls and supermarkets are the positions where parents should stick to their original aspirations. There is another position that is easier to lose, which is the “gym” for children – children’s playground. Nowadays, many playgrounds will issue annual cards that are unlimited times a year. Many parents around are doing them. Once, I almost did it on impulse.
But when I got home and thought about it, I found that this kind of annual card looks very suitable, but to be honest, no child can go to the same playground for a year without any trouble. greasy. Children are also human beings, and they like novel and fun things. If they go to one place all the time, they will definitely lose interest. For those unlimited annual cards, let alone every day, it is great to be able to go half the time in a year.
Sometimes I take my child to the business district on weekends, and I will improvise for a while when I see playgrounds in other malls. Wherever a new playground is opened, I will also take her to “pull the grass”. It is definitely not suitable to apply for an annual card in this way, but in order to save money, I still issued an anonymous secondary card for my baby. After calculation, the price of a single time will be cheaper than that of not applying for a card. Children of other relatives and friends can still borrow it if they want to play. For them, we can save money together, and I will not have too many burdens that I can’t use up too many times.
Use free resources wisely
My baby’s greatest fun is actually “going around”, she can come into contact with many different environments, different people, different things and different scenes from “going around” . Therefore, “going around” is not only a child’s need for entertainment, but also a learning process.
There are some places where you need to spend money, and sometimes it costs a lot, such as small indoor zoos or aquariums and aquariums. Although you go to these places, you can’t always go there. If you always go there, you will lose the freshness, and the cost will naturally go up.
There are also some places that do not cost money, such as: parks, flower gardens, museums, science and technology museums, art galleries, art centers, convention centers. Most of these places have a good environment, the personnel are not very dense, and the quality is relatively high. Seeing more exhibits is also a subtle influence on children.
So these places change places every week in our family. It not only satisfies the fun of children’s “going around”, but also does not have a heavy financial burden.
Reuse existing items
Children’s minds have developed rapidly from birth to one year old and eight months old. Many things that they liked when they were young have not been broken or worn out, and they are no longer needed now. , As the youngest child around, our baby not only has a lot of things eliminated by himself, but also “summarized” the items eliminated by other brothers and sisters. How to use them rationally has become the main topic of my family.
I also developed some ideas for this: the black and white cards I read when I was a child have now become coloring cards; after the clothes were cut and modified when I was a child, they became clothes for dolls. Clothes; English words written on cognitive cards become English learning cards; rattles are turned into teaching aids for music enlightenment, used as percussion instruments when listening to music… This also saves a lot of money.
Since I summed up these three methods, I really feel that it is not as extravagant and wasteful as before, and I always remind myself to spend my money on the edge of the knife, which has really stopped buying and buying. Desire, save a lot of money.
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