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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Weddings, clothes, haircuts, parties, etc. girls are expensive.[/quote]

Most couples pay for their own weddings, or parents from both sides contribute. My parents and ILs both gave the same amount (a few thousand) to help pay for our wedding.

Boys wear clothes, get haircuts, have and go to parties. People can spend more or less on those things but it's a choice.

I know girls who are very low maintenance, do inexpensive sports or activities, are not into clothes or makeup (or work part-time and spend their own money on those things), etc.

I also know boys who always need the most expensive sneakers and clothes, participate in extremely expensive sports, eat insane amounts of food, etc.

And vice versa.

[b]You cannot generalize by gender. Also my guess is that if you strongly believe that girls cost more than boys, you will spend more on your girls than your boys because you have bought into the belief that this is how it is. But that's your own fault.[/b][/quote]

I agree with the bolded.

There are a lot of ways to control the clothes spending that to me seems like the main difference.

I knew a little girl who often went to daycare in gorgeous dresses which was so cute but a bit weird. (Keep in mind that a lot of girls' party dresses these days are polyester satin and polyester velvet so can be washed in the washing machine.)

I asked her mother one time about it and the mom said that she was buying them for cheap at children's resale stores.  And that her daughter just loved dressing like that.

Close to the end of high school, my kids crossed paths with this girl again.  She's on robotics club with my son and dresses in a very typical, not expensive high school girl way.  She's outgrown her princess phase.  But it was adorable while it lasted.[/quote]

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