To ask how you managed raising a child on a lower income?

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Everyone will have a totally different idea as to what a lower income is, but just wondered if anyone here has raised a child/children without 2 parents on high salaries and without let's say a very large amount of savings etc? Just wondered how did you manage and did you receive a lot of support?

My partner and I have a baby and are both uni students, we live with his parents, they (very kindly) don’t ask for rent but we are saving what would be rent each month towards a house. We buy DDs clothes off Vinted, a lot of toys from Facebook marketplace, others new. I take full advantage of offers at boots for nappies, sudocrem, snacks etc as well as their student discount on top. I breastfeed so no buying formula. Gov provides childcare grant which pays for 85% of childcare fees. Lots of ways to cut costs down here and there, you definitely don’t need to be on 100k to support a child, you just make it work.

My late husband and I did without any new clothes, holidays nights out or meals out for three years to pay the mortgage, food in our bellies and pay utilitiy bills for three years, I wasn't working, stayng at home to care for three sons born in four years. We were quite content.