Parent Hack №1 — get someone to do it for you
So you’re a first-time parent. In preparation for this joyous, yet all encompassing journey you were just about to embark on, you bid farewell to getting a good night’s sleep, you were ready to battle it out with the feeding struggles, and you prepared yourself mentally for the persistent fear of having no idea what you are doing.

You were also given fair warning about how expensive it is to have a kid. But how are you supposed to know how much everything REALLY costs if you haven’t done it before? Add it to the list of questions categorised under “is this normal?”.

You probably spend hours, days, maybe even weeks on end furiously Googling how much a baby costs, what do you need to buy, what’s the cheapest way to buy it, when do you need to buy it, etc. etc. Or maybe, you are too focused on preparing for how to actually be a parent (to address the above mentioned fear) that it didn’t even occur to you to budget for a baby (which is, let’s be honest, is probably the most likely scenario, for most people).

If you’ve been lucky, maybe your friends have already had a baby, and shared an Excel spreadsheet with you detailing exactly what you need. But what if you don’t have Microsoft Excel?? What even is Excel? So many barriers, so little time.

Well, have no fear — StorkCard has your back.

StorkCard has distilled all of this information into one easy to use, fully customisable baby budget into the app. All you have to do is enter the baby’s due date / date of birth, how much you’ve already put aside for the baby and the app will do the rest for you.

Your baby budget uses artificial intelligence to tell you what you need to buy, when you need to buy it and how much it should cost on average on a personalised basis, just for you!

It has three different views, so that you can choose the view that you are most comfortable with, be it in a chart by months, by categories or by key milestones.

It also shows you how much you could potentially save with StorkCard’s discounts (another blog upcoming for this — watch this space!).

StorkCard provides the basis for a budget, and you can mark individual items as purchased, or edit the name, quantity, and price, or even delete the whole thing if it doesn’t float your boat.

Once your child becomes a little older, and it’s time to face that childcare cliff, you have the option to add it to your budget and it’s super smart as you can even choose the type of childcare you want and how much of it you need.

And this is just the first version of the budget. The masterminds behind StorkCard are working hard on releasing even more useful features of the budget including (but not restricted to):
['Sally Stork']
['Lifehacks', 'Parenting', 'Baby', 'Budget', 'Fintech']