What do you spend money on? £50 voucher to be won

[PoppyMumsnet]

We're interested in finding out at which stages in your child's life you have found yourself spending the most, and whether or not you expected to do so at that point. We also want to know what sorts of things you've spent the most amount of money on.

This survey is open to all UK Mumsnetters who have at least one child.

[Ragwort]

Our biggest expense is the life insurance we have arranged since becoming parents - there were no questions about this.

I must be in the minority as I don't find having a child that expensive - we were lucky enough to be given everything we needed as hand me downs - and I am not precious about buying stuff from charity shops etc. Equally I have no problem saying 'no' to teenage requests. I think we spent a lot more before becoming parents on nicer holidays, meals out, theatre trips etc etc. We do nice things now but we are more inventive about where we go and what we do.

[Squirrills]

I have two at uni. All the early stuff pales into insignificance compared with that.

[MerylPeril]

I always found having DD to be cheap however costs are now suddenly rising.
It's the costs of doing activities (swimming, music), the cost of clothes has suddenly risen as I am now buying size 10-11 (and she's only 7) and we have to buy gluten free foods as she's coeliac.

[isthatmorelego]

Definitely home educating our son through no choice bullying left medical reasons and anxiety

[MrsMarigold]

I spent very little initially, and they hardly needed anything, I had very little paraphernalia, but now I feel I just spend more and more.

[WhisperingLoudly]

If you pay for childcare/education spend £500 on a pram pales into insignificance, making the survey seem a little irrelevant