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Can you put a price on the life of a child? According to some recent figures, the answer is, yes you can! To raise a child from birth to age 17, a recent government report says that most middle income families will spend about 219 thousand dollars.

Naturally, this figure of worth is not related to how much your child's body parts could be worth to organ farmers on the black market, but that's another report for another time. Nor is it related to how much you can sell your newborn for on Craigslist.

Lemondrop brings up an interesting question: What more awesome things could you do with $219,000 other than raising a brat? We turned to our forums, chat room and AIM buddy lists and came up with some answers of our own:

Always the gift giver, Lt. Lollipop would buy gifts for all his friends on the forums.

Alex wishes for an apartment, a BMW Z5 Roadster, and some extra college funds.

In the chat, it was worked out that I could have three Crunchwrap Supremes from Taco Bell, for three meals a day, for over 30 years. Though SKL would rather the Arby's equivilent as proposed by Lemondrop: 5 roast beef sandwiches per meal, for 41 years.

Alternatively, Ron also would consider putting it towards a Corvette z06, with enough money left over for gas to drive from Los Angeles to New York and back 420 times, given EPA highway milage. (Though higher could be achieved through cautious driving, but what's the fun in that?)

Thom would buy a royal title in Scotland and live off the taxation the village he'd own would bring in.

Tabitha would buy a camper to run away with her fiancee in to see the world. Awww.

Going back to food, Ayn would personally hire Paula Deen to make her a beastly lasagna sandwich.

And lastly, Fury wants lenses and other camera accessories, starting with Canon's 1200mm F5.6 motherfucker at 100 grand.

What would you do with $219,000? Raise a kid, or do something else? Comments are open.