Hey there - my dh is a tradie and we earn under 45k p/a. We live carefully but not frugally and enjoy life. It doesn't have to cost the earth to raise your children. Babies really cost nothing at all and by the time it gets to school time and bigger costs it all falls into place. As the younger children of a bigger family you don't need to rebuy nursery funiture, bikes, uniforms, etc. Lets be honest if we wanted to hold onto to our money and store it up nobody would have any children at all..?
Thanks for the reply Halltribe
Hubby is soon to be a tradie (hopefully) just got to get an apprenticeship, he was happy to hear that ur hubby is also a tradie and that u guys have a large family.
Its given him hope that u can have the dream of a extra large family and not have to earn heaps iykwim.
My husband is a tradie and runs his own business. He makes excellent money, we are buying our home, run 2 cars, I don't have to work but am studying - we are only on baby 2 but thought I'd comment about the possibilities once he has his trade.
It's great being able to work for yourself - and Plumbers are probably in the top 5 trades regarding pay.
We love it and have managed to grow the business hoping my husband can take a step back in a couple of years while I go back to Teaching and he can be home for the kids for a while.
My hubby owns his own company which is allot of work but it works well for us. He has a personal assistant and people that work for him so he can spend allot of time with the family or at least work from home. But there is times he needs to travel overseas but we manage. We have our own house (we just rebuilt it into a 7 bedroom home with rumpus) and cars. Dh has a few toys as his work has allowed for him to buy them.
It was hard work starting a business but it has really paid off for us.
We're expecting no.4 so will soon be a family of 6. Dh is on about 70k although that is only new this year for the last 2 years prior he was on 60k...I think you make it work but I know I like there to be enough money for my kids to experience things (within reason of course) We limit the material stuff and focus more on learning about and experiencing life!!!
Also, I love that by living this way it enables me to be home with my babies and I plan to be at home until they're all at primary school and then I can asess what I want to do with study/work...
Take care of the needs first, the wants will fall into place with patience.
Centrelink is more than enough to cover the needs. Spent a couple of years living on it while building DHs business as all the income from that went straight onto equipment. Its perfectly doable without denying yourself everything fun in life if its managed properly.
Hi, we have 6 children, hubby is on approx $55k, I'm a stay at home mum and we do just great! Never at any point when I got pregnant did we think "How are we going to afford another child?" Because as other posts have said, you prioritise. We shop only for what we need, we got to beaches for bbqs, parks for picnics and play sports all the time. And we even have 1 family holiday and 1 holiday just for hubby and I once a year.
My children don't go to private schools, or have private tutoring and we don't holiday in Fiji but they are still confident, polite, compassionate individuals. It saddens me when I hear friends say they'll PLAN to have children when the mortgage is paid or after the credit cards are cleared, by then it's too late.
I say have those babies as soon as you can cause there's no house, fancy car or holiday that can out weigh the joy of having a child!
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