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So far we have been able to keep our expenses well under $100/month.
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That's amazing! I'd be thrilled if I could keep our expense that low!
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realistically it depends on how generous your friends and family are at the showers.
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Dh and I will be adopting, and for emotional reasons, we won't be having a shower before we have a baby. So, we're hoping to have a shower about 1 month after the baby is born (we'll be dealing with legal issues of adoption for the first 2-3 weeks, and I don't want to have a shower until everything is certain). We'll need to purchase everything that the baby will need the first month of his/her life. Also, we have to have a nursery all set up for our homestudy, so we have to purchase all of that as well. That's part of the reason I'm trying to figure out our costs, because we have a lot more upfront costs of "baby stuff" than most people do when they are expecting, in addition to the costs of adoption.