Inside the super-sized life of TLC's Duggar family: By the numbers

Raising even one or two children can be a daunting endeavor for parents, which perhaps explains the mystification of many Americans that Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar manage to rear a brood of 19 kids. NBC's Today is pulling back the curtain a bit on the already exposed stars of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting, and according to the Arkansas couple, their parenting feat is less a miracle than it is a product of good planning and teamwork. Here, a numerical look at the Duggars' "super-sized" household:

21

Members of the nuclear family, including 19 kids (age 2 to 24)

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18

Children who still live at home

9

Girls who share one bedroom

9

Boys who share another bedroom

9

Bathrooms in the house

1

Room used as a "post office" to sort the family mail

1

Super-sized family closet

4

Years it took for the Duggars to build their own house

3 to 6

Hours of daily homeschooling for each kid

8

Cars (2), SUVs (5), and vans (1) the family owns, all purchased used

45

Length, in feet, of the family bus

35

Loads of laundry the family does each week

$3,000

The family's average monthly grocery bill

48

Boxes of cereal the family eats each month

36

Eggs the Duggars go through in a typical day. (That's more than 1,000 per month.)

5

Pounds of turkey bacon consumed in a typical day

3

Loaves of bread consumed in a typical day

2

Watermelons consumed in a typical day

3

Pounds of green beans consumed in a typical day

2

Pans of brownies consumed in a typical day

1

Gallon of vanilla ice cream consumed in a typical day

17

Michelle's age when she married Jim Bob

19

Jim Bob's age when he married Michelle

Sources: Babble, Examiner, Huffington Post, NBC Today