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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have made cuts in other areas and live really like paupers (or "the millionaire next door").  We live "poorer" than most other people we know, but to us, it's important to send her to the private school.  For example, we have no tv at home, no internet at home, drive two paid-for cars, I wear the same clothes from Target basically like every day, and we do a lot of things that other people eschewed on the "what cheap things have you seen people do" thread.

That said, I have another friend who lives pretty "high on the hog" and he was saying, "We just couldn't afford private school," and I really had to sit on my hands and bite my tongue not to say anything.  [/quote]

We did that too. And it worked for a few years. But your kid catches on and you get tired of the routine. You never save any money.  The tuition costs go up and it becomes a battle of worrying about whether tution will go up 3% or 4% because that 1% really makes an issue in the budget.  We finally bailed. The strain was too much. And in the end, we really hated our twenty-something poor lifestyle we were having to live all over again.

Several parents we knew had support from family members.  Some had grandparents pay tuition.  But there were many others who had grandparents who simply supplemented the families life such as providing very nice vacations, enough "gifts" at Christmas and other holidays so that the parents didn't have to buy the bulk of clothes, toys, electronics, luxury cars that were handed down from grand parents that were a year old because the grandparent "got tired of it", etc and so forth...[/quote]

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