Home Economics No. 33: Stay-at-Home Mom and Software Engineer Living on $190K in Utah
With 4 kids between one and seven years old
Good morning, friends! I’m keeping this intro brief today because it’s a summer weekend, and hopefully many of you readers have something fun planned! I am taking my estate-planning midterm, which is not fun but still needs to be done.
I hope you enjoy today’s paid edition of Home Economics! It’s our first from the state of Utah, and it features a stay-at-home mom and software engineer who are raising four kids. No surprise, they have one of the bigger grocery budgets we’ve seen.
Just a reminder that I’m looking for new entries to share. You can fill out the form here! (Also, I want to acknowledge a few people have reached out about making the form easier to use, and I am working on it! I hope to roll out an updated version soon!)
Age: 30
Location: Utah County, Utah
Relationship status: Married
Age of partner: 30
About me: I’m a CPA-turned-stay-at-home-mom of four kids seven and under, and I’m married to a software engineer. Our financial life has been a little crazy. For several years during and after the Covid pandemic, my husband made unheard-of-to-me amounts of money working for big tech companies. He recently accepted a lower-paying position (still plenty of money!) for a role that we are hopeful will be a little more humane.
We’ve always made a point to keep our day-to-day cost of living as low as possible, but we were able to check off some big purchases (including buying a new home and upgrading our cars) while we were still making big tech money. We are hopeful that in this new phase we will still be able to have moderate savings, although we haven’t put it to the test yet. I wanted to reach out because last I saw, you didn’t have any Utah submissions!