Normal for daycare to charge noon refundable deposit?

No. Not at all.

Maybe for a highly in demand Montessori school, or something similar, but I've personally never encountered one with my 2 kids.

I've seen a few like that. Those are the really high demand ones.

The one I know of is $250. Its fricking ridiculous.

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The one I know of is $250. Its fricking ridiculous.

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First thing I said. My wife was like, really? It's going to cost you over 9 grand a year, and you're mad about the $200. She kind of had a point. I was already getting taken behind the wood shed so what's an extra $200.

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That's not why, Teddy. I was mainly interested in him getting his prime years of education from the hottest day care instructors I could find.

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A universal truth. The more money that is involved, the hotter the women are.

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Sounds like what you have is more of an application fee. Schools charge non-refundable application fees all the time.

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Yes, if I remember correctly, I paid $200 for a deposit to be on a waiting list. If we got accepted, our $200 deposit was applied to our application fee.

Yeah apparently we paid 150 just to get on list... Second place requiring a waiting list fee

If there is high demand, yes

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It doesn't get any cheaper as they get older, enjoy it while you can...

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I hear people say this occasionally, and I don't get it.
If they go to public school, it certainly does . They'd need a lot of crap to surpass $9k/year in daycare expenses alone.

My 7/8 year old isn't playing travel baseball.
"sorry bud, dad thinks it's stupid to spend 4 grand a year driving you around the south to baseball parks when you just learned to tie your shoes, so go play in the sand".

Sure, when they drive and go to college it's going to get significantly more expensive, but that's what savings plans are for.

Dang.
So DC, San Francisco, NYC?

Chicago aka chiraq