How Do You Become A Stay At Home Mom?
The choice to stay home with your children can be the most rewarding decision you can make. Though friends and family may look at you cross-eyed when you tell them that you quit your lucrative job in order to be a stay at home mom, the fact of the matter is that you may actually be saving money by staying home. Well, not saving exactly, but it may not cost you as much as you think to be a stay at home mom. How can this be? The average cost to send one child to child care is about $300 a month. Plus, if you were a stay at home mom, you could save money on gas to get to and from work, occasional lunches out, work clothes, and more. Time and time, you hear it again. “It’s too expensive to be a stay home mom in California” (or New York, or Washington, or Florida, etc.). Most of the time, the women who say this either have not seriously looked at the financial possibility, do not want to give up some of their luxuries, or truly do not want to be a stay at home mom in the first place. It cer
