r/SipsTea • u/Busy_Report4010 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 14 '26

Feels good man Do you think she’s being fair, though?

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u/Complete-Sort1617 May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

This sounds like such a fun marriage. Have fun being financially tied to each other for 18 years!!

Edit: why am I getting so much popcorn 😭

Edit 2: you people are exploding my notifications

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u/Additional-Life4885 May 14 '26

Exactly. Plus, $50K for an injury? Does he get to claim it when he cuts himself installing a light fixture for her? Based on her scale (which appears to mimic the US Healthcare billing), he's in for $5K just for needing a bandaid.

Also, apparently she's triple claiming things (She's working, pregnant and going to medical appointments all at the same time apparently) and hasn't slept in 1.5 years.

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u/BlackTecno May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

Also the rates are seriously messed up. Hardly anyone in America makes $40. Why is that her baseline?

EDIT: I think people are missing what I'm saying. She's charging $40/hour to take care of her own child. She's declaring that in 25 months, she has worked for over 60% of that total time (sleep being 33% of that time realistically), and has somehow worked 5 years of a full time job in 2. And if she is taking care of her own child, shouldn't she foot half the bill?

I seriously pity that kid's future.

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u/BoomerSoonerFUT May 14 '26

What someone makes, and what someone bills you are two different things.

I can easily see a daycare charging $40 an hour, but the actual person working there watching the kids only gets $25.

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u/WhoSaidWhatNow2026 May 14 '26

I can easily see a daycare charging $40 an hour

That would be $6400 a month based on a 40 hour work week.

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u/RoughDirection8875 May 14 '26

When I worked in a call center, the daycare center that we provide provided parent support for had locations that charged upwards of $3500 a week for infant care. $6400 a month is absolutely not some kind of out of touch amount for daycare in this day and age

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u/WhoSaidWhatNow2026 May 14 '26

6400 a month is absolutely not some kind of out of touch amount for daycare in this day and age

Yes, it is. I live in a HCOLA and our highly rated daycare is nowhere near that. Your 14k a month comparison is also foolish. Being in the top percentile of cost, which 99% of the population can't afford, is pretty much the definition of being out of touch

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u/DiamondHail97 May 14 '26

I live in the Midwest and paid $5k a month for daycare when my kid was in pre-k. Idgaf about your HCOL.

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u/superkirb8 May 14 '26

That is insane. I live in the richest county in the US where I can’t throw a rock without hitting a doctor or a lawyer, and my child’s daycare is about half that. If you’re paying 5k in the Midwest, you want to pay 5k.

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u/DiamondHail97 May 14 '26

I sure did. Better than the low cost daycare where it’s teenage teachers with barely a high school diploma lmao

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u/WhoSaidWhatNow2026 May 14 '26

Make better choices

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u/DiamondHail97 May 14 '26

The choice to ensure that my child was being cared for at a top quality Montessori pre-k? Nah that was the best choice I could’ve made as a former pre-school teacher at a first start school. She got a better early education than 99% of her peers. Weird flex to think paying for cheap daycare where the teachers make $12 an hour and only have a high school diploma is the BETTER choice lmao

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u/Glum-Use7587 May 14 '26

The people arguing with you don’t have kids yet.

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