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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe $3000/month until kindergarten.

But by kindergarten, you factor in how much money it will cost to buy into a good school district, or to pay for private school.  So you don't really save $3000 after that.  Plus, do you want to have a small house compared to other school families.  Our first home was in a neighborhood with a few teardowns, but not many.  All families at the school lived in new builds.  The original homes were all elderly folks.[/quote]

We aren't spending that much money. I suppose some do. We are middle class.

We buy nice simple no-brand kids clothes and buy nice branded sneakers (last season's colors can be had at a vig discount).  We are in a good enough public school district.

We don't have fancy ski vacations or jet to the Caribbean at spring break. We do go to "Thomas Day Out" at the B&O RR museum in Baltimore. We go to the Smithsonian sometimes.

We shop at several grocery stores. We don't dine at any restaurant that has been reviewed in WP in the past 20 years. We do go to Olive Garden sometimes. [/quote]

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