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[quote=Anonymous]I am pretty organized and actually “like” tracking things on mint and doing our family budget. And the last 24 months we truly spent so much more money despite cutting back back back. Groceries, my middle childs special needs therapies, things like swim lessons and house repairs… all of it is costing 12-20 percent more, sometimes close to a third more. We have kept an eye out and we are now mowing again, cleaning our own gutters, painting everything ourselves, really trying to not hire out. We dont eat out because we are ethnic and prefer our own cultures food but groceries are still up even though i buy less meat than ever. My middle son has an upcoming sacrament and having the same party i had for my eldest in 2019 will cost about 37 percent more. Same exact venue, caterer etc. Having it at home didnt prove to save money after renting tent and tables/chairs. I just want to confirm this is somewhat universal because all my social peers around me either arent talking about this or dont seem to be feeling it at all. While i dont mind cutting the fluff i also have less personal time than ever so our weekends are just nothing but house work and kids activities.  For reference our hhi is 300 on the button. 90 me (public school teacher) and 210 dh (inhouse counsel). We are blessed that loans are out of the way (dh had an employer pay for JD and mine were forgiven at the ten year mark) so i was mentally thinking by this point we would be SO ahead. Dh thinks that its just everyone we know “has family money” but that seems very unlikely. I feel like everyone around us is prosperous while we reduce our lifestyle year after year. Just throwing this out to see if others feel similar.[/quote]

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