# Actual cost of kids poll

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-cost-of-kids-poll/704839>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 17, 2014, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-cost-of-kids-poll/704839 "2014-11-17T04:59:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-cost-of-kids-poll/704839/7 "2014-11-17T16:28:22Z")

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Naw, now she just goes out and earns her own money. No “hating” required, and she likes the sense of self-confidence this has given her.

Her most common thing to do is make a bunch of bath soaps and stuff, bottle them up, then print “Sophia’s Scentsables” labels for the bottles. She goes door-to-door selling them and can rack up about $50/hour (more like $15/hour when adding in prep time and deducting for COGS).

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