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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][i]People make different choices with their money.

I have good friends who make about the same amount as my husband and I. They have two kids, live in a small townhouse, went to Taylor swift and several other concerts and experiences, just went on vacation to Europe, and have told their kids that they shouldn’t expect any help for college so to consider community college for the first two years then transferring. We have three kids, live in a single family home, and will have saved enough to pay outright for in state tuition for all three kids, but took a driving vacation, and don’t do any concerts (the last concert I attended was the 4th grade strings concert at our kids elementary school). Good people make different spending decisions.[/i]

(Post above is from earlier in the thread)

You call these "good people" who simply made "different spending decisions"? I call them idiot parents who are going to discover eventually that their children resent the hell out them for splurging on concert tickets and big vacations then having the gall to lumber the kids with either college debt or degrees that aren't that great quality. (And yes, I know all about the CC-to-Name College route, but it's not applicable everywhere for every kind of degree.)

[b]When their kids hit their mid-20s and realize they're saddled for years with debt, when their parents could have made some different choices, the resentment will come home to roost. [/b]

I wonder if this couple does any saving for their own retirement or if they'll find out one day that they need the kids to help support them as they age....

Well, at least they can say they saw Taylor Swift back in the day! [/quote]

I'm a different poster than the one you're replying to -- speaking from my own personal experience (and I had a similar childhood as you're describing, and I remember all of the amazing times I had with my parents & siblings).
Going on vacation and seeing all kinds of Broadway shows & concerts was well worth it to me -- because that's all I really remember, the wonderful times.

I had academic scholarships, but I also applied for about 200 scholarships that go unused every year.
My guidance counselor had a huge book of them, and now there are websites that list THOUSANDS of them and they're super easy to attain, because so many kids don't even know they exist, so they don't know to apply for them. 
Some scholarships were for only like $500, but some were for $5,000.
I applied for a many as I physically could, and that's how I covered what I didn't receive in scholarships.
I worked every break throughout high school & college and saved that money, and my parents covered anything that wasn't covered by scholarships.

Any debt that I would have been "saddled" with, I know I could always make and remake in my career... but I can never earn or buy those wonderful memories with my parents and siblings, and now that my parents are gone, it makes those memories even more special.

Grandpa George from Charlie & the Chocolate Factory said it best.
(setting the scene) 
Charlie has just returned home with the golden ticket and tells his extremely impoverished family that someone offered him a lot of money to buy it from him... and Charlie thinks it's the right thing to do.

[b]Grandpa George [/b]: [i]You, come here.  Now look, there's plenty of money out there. They print more every day -- but this ticket, there's only five of them in the whole world, and that's all there's ever going to be. Only a dummy would give this ticket up for something as common as money... are you a dummy?[/i]

[b]Charlie Bucket[/b] : [i]No, sir.[/i]

[b]Grandpa George[/b] : [i]Then get that mud off your pants! You've got a factory to go to![/i]

[/quote]

Cool story. What was your actual debt? Doesn’t sound like a lot [/quote]

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