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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How would it cost $6-$7K? I think you must live in a wealthy area if you think it's necessary to spend that much. When you have more money, you are more inclined to spend more even if you're not getting much more as an experience.

My kid bought a regular-priced ticket, paid for gas money, paid for a shared hotel room, and paid for food and gas money back home.

The total cost was $500.

Not all kids like TS so, no, your child is not the only one who has not attended.[/quote]

Dear poster living under a rock.  Most people can't get tickets through Ticketmaster and are stuck buying tickets on the resale market.  Your kid is one of the lucky ones if they were able to buy a regular-priced ticket.[/quote]

PP also obviously has a teen or college aged daughter who can drive and split a hotel room with friends which totally changes the equation. Her DD likely also figured out how to enter the Ticketmaster lottery on her own or coordinated with friends to all enter and then bring each other if they scored tickets. That's how lots of college kids and 20 somethings are affording this tour.

OP's question is about tweens who can't do any of that and 100% rely on their parents for something like this. It takes on a different tenor when it's about what parents are doing "for" their kids. It's like asking "are all parents spending thousands on birthday parties for their tweens -- it feels like we're the only ones doing sleepovers and pizza anymore" and then having someone pipe in that their 23 yr old threw her own birthday party for a few hundred dollars by doing a Costco run with her roommate and decorating themselves and saving up Total Wine coupons. Good for her but not on topic.[/quote]

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