我仲有幾日就生得,呢排都有同老公discuss我應否做full time mom. 我自有咗就冇做嘢,所以呢大半年都係靠老公份人工,so far we manage to save about 40% of his income, 算是不錯。但又時時諗到bb出世後家庭開支只會不停增加,最後都決定請咗個姐姐而我by summer就會番返工。my suggestion to you us entirely based on factorsthat my hubby and I have considered:
1. Single income stability-how stable is your hubby's job (salary cut and layoffs are common in his profession?). In the event of job loss, how quickly will he be able to land another one with similar pay?
2. income growth potential-with a baby monthly expenses will only increase in the future, will his income grow at a rate faster than inflation?
3. backup for emergency-天災人禍is so unpredictable but does happen in life, if something does happy to either one of you, will you have enough money left to help the other one and the young child through the difficult time. The same applied to both of your families, 如父母有事需要你們金錢上的help, 能做到嗎?
4. Reserve - you should always have at least six months of living money set aside as reserve, in my case I have set the goal at 12 months ( I.e. If monthly total spending is 20k then you should always have 120k cash flow available, but for myself even with 12 months reserve I still don't feel secured..我是一個對金錢好冇安全感的人...)
$5000- bb
3 yrs old now will entry k1 at sep, school fee 2k, the rest can be interest class or saving ,depends la, but most likely we would pick a free primary school
$6000- 雜費+credit card
(dine out and marketing)
$5000 - cash expense for me and bb daily,mainly on eat outside, we rarely cook now, hubby have free meal in office or he buy himself.
we afford to travel short e.g.mainland,macau with this budget few times a year.for overseas trip,we relay on hubby bonus which mean not certain for every year.
but apart from the nesscary, myself almost as zero spending, only a few piece cheap cloths each season.
I can have few thousand saving sometimes because baby actually use not much now-havn't start any interest class.
would try to find pt job after my boy entry school.