Tuition assistance

[Anonymous]

OP, there are forums here for Food & Cooking, Money & Finances, and Cars & Transportation. It seems like you could use advice from all of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You do realize that our house payment is very low?
Also one car is new Hyundai but I drove my old one until it had 189k. There are two car payments in that number and one was purchased used. I bought a new car but I don't see why that's bad. I need reliablility. I have a long commute. Also I can't afford to shop at whole foods. It's safeway or giant. For all of you bashing, id like a run down of your annual expenses?

Your monthly grocery bill is high. You really shouldn’t need to spend $500 a week.

But the main thing is you bought more car than you can afford if you want to sent your kids to private. That’s the bottom line. Sure, it’s not unreasonable to prioritize a reliable new car, that’s your choice. But you chose it over private education.

Yeah, $2200/month on groceries is really high. Does that include eating out? Because if not, you really should figure out a way to cut that. You can eat healthy on much less even with the ever increasing price of groceries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You do realize that our house payment is very low?
Also one car is new Hyundai but I drove my old one until it had 189k. There are two car payments in that number and one was purchased used. I bought a new car but I don't see why that's bad. I need reliablility. I have a long commute. Also I can't afford to shop at whole foods. It's safeway or giant. For all of you bashing, id like a run down of your annual expenses?

Your monthly grocery bill is high. You really shouldn’t need to spend $500 a week.

But the main thing is you bought more car than you can afford if you want to sent your kids to private. That’s the bottom line. Sure, it’s not unreasonable to prioritize a reliable new car, that’s your choice. But you chose it over private education.

Yeah, $2200/month on groceries is really high. Does that include eating out? Because if not, you really should figure out a way to cut that. You can eat healthy on much less even with the ever increasing price of groceries.

Even if it does include eating out (and I hope it does and there isn’t another budget line item OP hasn’t mentioned for that), it’s high. Our family eats out (or more often, carries out) far more than we should lately. It’s been a particularly rough year in terms of chaos and demands on time, and making dinner at home has suffered. Even with our over-reliance on Uber Eats and our local Thai and sushi places we don’t hit $500 per week.

[Anonymous]

We are 5 and we probably spend $200/week on groceries unless we are hosting a dinner party. We also never eat out except for pizza once a week when on sale at Whole Foods. Our mortgage is higher than yours as is our HHI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are 5 and we probably spend $200/week on groceries unless we are hosting a dinner party. We also never eat out except for pizza once a week when on sale at Whole Foods. Our mortgage is higher than yours as is our HHI.

Also we have 1 2011 car and are considering buying a second car and payments will be between $350-450/month.