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Ananda has to get a job.
Jun. 11th, 2009 12:08 pmHer tab for the last month:
-3 afternoon show tickets and 2 evening show tickets that Dance Empire charges $25 apiece for: $125
-nude tights, black jazz shoes, liquid eyeliner, red and pink lipstick and clip on stud earrings, for dance shows: about $60
-dvd of both acts of both shows by STUPID OVERCHARGING I HATE THEM Memory Factory, plus getting it mailed to our house: $67 You read that right. $67.
-audition for summer intensives and company: $25
-registering for 5 dance classes per month summer session ($140 for first month, $65 registratin for summer term): $205
I'm trying to be like, but her classes from February until now have been FREE due to them acknowledging their own scheduling problems and confusion we dealt with, and the recital is once a year, and she LOVES her dvd of last years' show, and now it's just $140 per month for 5 weekly dance classes, and she's using those jazz shoes throughout the summer BUT THEN...
-birthday presents: at least $100
-tea party food, supplies, favor bags, invites, her dress and hat for the thing: $75-ish
Again, ok, once a year, and she loved it all and it was a great success, BUT THEN.
-3 strapless bras and 2 layerable camisoles ordered online, with tax and shipping: just under $60
-she's telling me her belly hurts in a weird way and I'm panicking that she's gonna start her period and I'll have nothing but my enormous bulky flood-control pads and tampons in the house, so I ordered her her own kit of new funky-print gladrags that will maybe get used soon or maybe sit around in a closet until she's 12: $165
-3 more growing up style books from Amazon, to be read together and then hidden away and read a million times by her, no doubt: about $50
And I'm thinking, well, bras and camisoles, people need underwear, and the pads last like a decade so I won't ever have to buy them for her again and the value is there...and this is definitely "enough" in the body changes and hormone insanity genre, so we're set there, and really I think that stuff is important and we're building a lot of trust and bonding, now....
Still and all. This month?
THIS MONTH WE HAVE SPENT $932 ON OUR 9 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER'S NON-ESSENTIALS!!!!
So not ok.
No wonder my husband is working every second of his off days on independant contract stuff.
If this was every month, we would be hungry and homeless inside a year.
Do you know what I've spent on, say, Jake's non-essentials in the last month? Isaac? Aaron? ELISE?
$0.
I guess that technically (obviously) bras and pads are not non-essentials, but you know what I mean. She has bras with straps, they just disqualify half her wardrobe now. I could try to sew or something. We could get her a $5 bag of disposable pads every month and hope she doesn't have the same sensitivity issues I do, or I could try to teach her how to wing it with wacky homemade ones that really aren't ideal in the least.
Argh, I am embarassed even posting this now. I was playfully ranting and now that I've opened calc for adding all the bolded numbers up it's more like...stunned. *sigh*
Mom: You're getting too expensive.
Annie: Haha.
Mom: No, really. I need you to start applying for work.
Annie: I have to be at least 14. Nobody would ever believe I was 14 when they saw me.
Mom: Perhaps we will find a blind person to trick into thinking you're 14 and hiring you.
Annie: Hmm... I might be able to swing it.
Mom: Let me know.
-3 afternoon show tickets and 2 evening show tickets that Dance Empire charges $25 apiece for: $125
-nude tights, black jazz shoes, liquid eyeliner, red and pink lipstick and clip on stud earrings, for dance shows: about $60
-dvd of both acts of both shows by STUPID OVERCHARGING I HATE THEM Memory Factory, plus getting it mailed to our house: $67 You read that right. $67.
-audition for summer intensives and company: $25
-registering for 5 dance classes per month summer session ($140 for first month, $65 registratin for summer term): $205
I'm trying to be like, but her classes from February until now have been FREE due to them acknowledging their own scheduling problems and confusion we dealt with, and the recital is once a year, and she LOVES her dvd of last years' show, and now it's just $140 per month for 5 weekly dance classes, and she's using those jazz shoes throughout the summer BUT THEN...
-birthday presents: at least $100
-tea party food, supplies, favor bags, invites, her dress and hat for the thing: $75-ish
Again, ok, once a year, and she loved it all and it was a great success, BUT THEN.
-3 strapless bras and 2 layerable camisoles ordered online, with tax and shipping: just under $60
-she's telling me her belly hurts in a weird way and I'm panicking that she's gonna start her period and I'll have nothing but my enormous bulky flood-control pads and tampons in the house, so I ordered her her own kit of new funky-print gladrags that will maybe get used soon or maybe sit around in a closet until she's 12: $165
-3 more growing up style books from Amazon, to be read together and then hidden away and read a million times by her, no doubt: about $50
And I'm thinking, well, bras and camisoles, people need underwear, and the pads last like a decade so I won't ever have to buy them for her again and the value is there...and this is definitely "enough" in the body changes and hormone insanity genre, so we're set there, and really I think that stuff is important and we're building a lot of trust and bonding, now....
Still and all. This month?
THIS MONTH WE HAVE SPENT $932 ON OUR 9 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER'S NON-ESSENTIALS!!!!
So not ok.
No wonder my husband is working every second of his off days on independant contract stuff.
If this was every month, we would be hungry and homeless inside a year.
Do you know what I've spent on, say, Jake's non-essentials in the last month? Isaac? Aaron? ELISE?
$0.
I guess that technically (obviously) bras and pads are not non-essentials, but you know what I mean. She has bras with straps, they just disqualify half her wardrobe now. I could try to sew or something. We could get her a $5 bag of disposable pads every month and hope she doesn't have the same sensitivity issues I do, or I could try to teach her how to wing it with wacky homemade ones that really aren't ideal in the least.
Argh, I am embarassed even posting this now. I was playfully ranting and now that I've opened calc for adding all the bolded numbers up it's more like...stunned. *sigh*
Mom: You're getting too expensive.
Annie: Haha.
Mom: No, really. I need you to start applying for work.
Annie: I have to be at least 14. Nobody would ever believe I was 14 when they saw me.
Mom: Perhaps we will find a blind person to trick into thinking you're 14 and hiring you.
Annie: Hmm... I might be able to swing it.
Mom: Let me know.
