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By the time you find out you\u2019re pregnant (pregnancy test $15) to the time junior blows out the candles on his first birthday cake (cake $20), parents can expect to spend upwards of $18,000. And that\u2019s on baby\u2019s first year alone. By the time junior reaches 18, the average middle-income family will spend $160,140, according to recent government calculations. That doesn\u2019t even touch college tuition. Ouch!<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Roboto||||||||” text_text_color=”#7a7a7a” text_font_size=”15px” custom_padding=”10px||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]
Children are priceless, but raising them is probably the most expensive thing a parent will ever do.<\/p>\n
But there\u2019s good news. One of the few times companies are eager to hand out free things is when someone is having a baby!<\/p>\n
When author, Sue Hannah found out that she was expecting twins, she couldn\u2019t wait for their arrival. But feeling the financial strain that goes along with being a new parent (times two), she was definitely a little nervous.<\/p>\n
Desperate to find extra help for her expanding family, she contacted almost every company that manufactured baby items. She scoured through parenting magazines, searched the Internet and made phone calls until her husband thought she was suffering a pregnancy-induced craze. He claimed she couldn\u2019t get something for nothing. Boy, was he wrong!<\/p>\n
She was surprised to find out that many companies offered free stuff to new and expecting parents\u2013and with no obligation to buy anything! She received hundreds of dollars worth of fabulous freebies for herself and her babies, including free diapers, baby wipes, baby food, baby bibs, bottles, free gift packs, parenting starter kits, free parenting videos and software, coupons, parenting books and magazines, and tons of free samples in the mail, all from well-known companies like Huggies, Gerber, Heinz, Nestl<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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