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morah

Tue, Jul 30 2013, 4:56 pm

So it's finally happened- we had to shell out some money due to our child horsing around. DS disappeared the car keys this morning. It's one of those newfangled key-fob thingys, not an actual key, so it's not so simple to replace. $300 to have someone from the closest dealership come to the house this morning and program a new one.

amother

Tue, Jul 30 2013, 8:27 pm

This fall our dd is going back to school for another degree and getting married. Her degree should set us back around $60K give or take a few grand. We have no idea how much the wedding will ~~hurt~~ cost but it will be a lot more than we would like.

There goes the tummy tuck, the fur, the cruise and a few other things.

amother

Tue, Jul 30 2013, 8:59 pm

$350 retainer thrown in the garbage and I'm convinced my kindergartner gave away a very expensive necklace of mine to one of her friends (that was 6 years ago so no, I don't expect to ever see it again). I'm not suspicious for nothing, we found expensive items in her bag before.

Kugglegirl

Tue, Jul 30 2013, 9:37 pm

Everything else pales at the cost of tuition & tutors, so far.

bamamama

Tue, Jul 30 2013, 10:46 pm

Our kids disappeared an envelope with $2800 from the sale of DH's car. Bye-bye summer vacation.

amother

Wed, Jul 31 2013, 11:30 am

We left the kids alone one night when we went to a wedding (age 15 and down). We came home to a very quiet house ... and a huge person size hole in the wall that faces you when you walk in the front door. It seems that DS and DD got pretty physical but at least it scared them all and got the whole crew into bed LOL

In the end, we made lemons out of the lemonade. The empty space went pretty deep because it's under the stairs, so DH cleared out the rest of the sheetrock and built a bookcase that fit right in.

Amother because I told this story over so many times.

Merrymom

Wed, Jul 31 2013, 2:35 pm

amother wrote:

Wow, what a horrible story. I sincerely hope it wasn't your son attacking your dd. I don't recall my brothers every hitting me growing up because my father would have killed them had they attacked any of us girls and my brothers have very much internalized this message B"H.

ectomorph

Thu, Dec 22 2016, 3:51 pm

Great thread. 108k first baby being born. 40k second child. BH insurance covers most of it.

thunderstorm

Thu, Dec 22 2016, 4:38 pm

One son hit his brother by mistake on purpose with a baseball bat an hour before Shabbos. We needed to rush to the ER for stitches. We had to give a deposit for the surgeon to meet us at the hospital. Then we got a bill of thousands of $. But thankfully our insurance broker fought for us with the insurance and they ended up covering most of it. My DH banned baseball bats once then.

seeker

Thu, Dec 22 2016, 6:16 pm

I'm not counting routine things like tuition and regular medical bills (e.g. being born.)
My kids haven't purposefully cost me much yet, but I did pay out of pocket for stitches for one adventurous climber, and the same kiddo cost me nearly $1000 of missed work last month for a week-plus of mystery fever that didn't really have any other symptoms but the policy is that if it's over 100 the night before then no school the next day.

amother

Blue

Thu, Dec 22 2016, 7:07 pm

My cousin is a bum we'll call it that ,cuz shes not otd- $13,000 on my aunts credit card after my aunt spent thousands of dollars for therapy because the girl had a rough childhood. She moved out of the house. And bad-mouthed my aunts family. She kept calling her sister for the credit card number after she moved out & used it.
My aunts husband is verbally abusive & aunt is a neb/victim. So kids can be expensive and cause pain.
Its ok that she moved out but it's not ok to spend 13k on mom's credit card without permission & go ahead and badmouth your family.
Its a true story, Believe it or not .

amother

Emerald

Thu, Dec 22 2016, 8:21 pm

shiffycc wrote:

Thanks for the laugh! I needed it today! Smile

Is any of it covered by insurance???

cozyblanket

Thu, Dec 22 2016, 8:26 pm

m in Israel wrote:

This thread is really making me feel good -- I never realized I had so much company!

I can't even remember everything. My oldest son flushed my very expensive watch down the toilet when he was about 2. One of my kids as a baby tore my pearl necklace while I was wearing it (by grabbing at my neck). Someone cut part of one of my very nice linen sets with a scissor. Also cut the plastic covering on the dining room chairs. This was indirect but someone left some crayons in their pocket which came out in the dryer -- and entire load of laundry was permanently damaged!

Oh, yes, the things in pockets that ruin an entire load of clothing!! All the nice clothes we lost that way...

amother

Cobalt

Thu, Dec 22 2016, 8:49 pm

Aside from tuitions and college, which is hopefully not damage, today my dd18 called from school that her Iphone is cracked and her world is "shattered." It is pretty bad so we are getting her another one as someone else actually dropped it (she says).

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