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[quote=Anonymous]Kids are 7 and 9 and it’s definitely not as expensive as the daycare years, but we cut corners to make that so. We limit aftercare, but that requires a lot of juggling. We are mindful of spending on activities, which can add up quickly (no music lessons, though I would love to do that for them and same with skiing). We splurge on two weeks of a nice camp but do a shared sitter the rest of the summer. We rarely go out to eat. They wear hand-me-downs and beat up sneakers. We rarely do expensive activities like pottery painting, trampoline parks, movies out, plays, airplane travel.

If we did those things with abandon, it could easily add up (and if I had more money, I probably would do all those things!). The thing is, those are decisions you have control over. High-quality daycare was not something optional for me, so those years were very financially taxing for us. Now we divert that extra money to college savings though, so between that and all the above, we still feel pinched.
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