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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP why do you feel better about $1400 than $2300? What does the savings go towards?[/quote]

I honestly don't even know! We contribute 15% to our 401ks, our kids have decent but not totally amazing 529s, our mortgage is only 3k a month. We have a pretty good investment account (has like ~80k in it) and a healthy checking balance.

My kids are 5/7/9 and we are in our final year of significant childcare costs. I think that it has just been hard to get through these years and it has felt like we had to be really careful to avoid not going into debt. I think we paid like 45k a couple years in childcare costs. In the last 4 years our situation has changed a bit, I got a substantial raise, COVID allowed us to save a decent amount of money, Maybe I just need to mentally adjust to like a new normal.

My dad has a really big scarcity mindset and my mom spends money like it is water and I feel like as a result I have no grip on what is normal. I need a goldilocks moment or something.[/quote]

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