How much should monthly budget for clothing be for...
# budgeting
t
How much should monthly budget for clothing be for a family with 2 kids 7-3 ?
m
Soon you'll be able to query our database for this, but until then I'll share my numbers. 4 kids age 5 and under, our monthly kids clothing budget is $125
t
Really 🤯 I'm spending $1500 monthly, no brand names 😭
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m
I mean I don't have a 7 year old but I can't imagine that would have a 1000% increase...
Do you use hand-me-downs?
We usually just pickup clothing other people's kids out-grew.
s
Hello! We don't do hand me downs (although I wish we did, that's another story.) $1500 a month is a lot, are you able to break it down further? Maybe shoes vs clothes vs outerwear, Shabbos vs weekday?
Hmm I see the $1500 is including the adults, so this also depends on whether you're buying entirely new wardrobes for the adults every year
m
Oh we are doing parents also? I'm 180 for parents and dry cleaning Plus 125 for kids Not including sheitelach, kapota, or talis.
t
Yes parents as well and not wig or ...
c
We're at about $400 for 2 adults and 3 kids
If you're shopping at Jewish stores exclusively it's going to be 2-4x shopping at nonjewish stores. Especially ones like target and old navy.
n
2 adults 4 kids, infant to 12 yrs old Hard for me to nail down a number because of nonstop multiple-size-and-styles orders and returns, but my guess would be about $500 avg. Almost never Jewish stores, except things like uniforms. I wouldn't count my infant though, since we got a nice selection of stuff from my sister-in-law who has a baby about a year older
r
2 adults and 7 kids, (2.5 through 17) based on previous years spending, came out to like 900 shekels a month