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[quote=Anonymous]The things that some people think are "required" are hilarious. You don't need thousands of dollars of test prep. You can buy a $40 study guide and work through it with your kid. You don't need to play travel hockey--rec baseball is fine. My parents gave my sister and I xxx amount of money for activities. If that meant we wanted to play one expensive sport, or do 3 cheaper things, or get a job to pay the difference, so be it. By the time the kid is in high school, that's a good lesson in budgeting to have. The only thing that I think is a necessity for older kids (barring a learning disability that requires special academic support) is braces. Everything else is a "nice to have", and we'll pay for what we can easily afford. No way are we going to skimp on retirement or college savings so that Larla can go to horseback riding lessons each week or spend the summer at a $10k sleepaway camp.[/quote]
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