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[quote=Anonymous]Op here. Love all the responses. For the record, I don’t even  drink coffee I was just using it as an example! To follow up, here’s what it means for us.

Young family late twenties/early thirties
-State schools on HOPE Scholarship. DH has masters paid for and I had partial law school scholarships.
-Still driving my old *17* year old Honda Accord. 
- We never lived in trendy parts of DC. We have always lived in the suburbs and metro in.
-We don’t take fancy vacations. We only go on vacation every other year for under $1000 and we had a *big* vacation for $3K which was disney world and split the trip with family. 
-We purchased a house below what we were qualified for that we could pay for on one income.
-When we needed a second car when I had a baby we bought a 2010 car in 2016. Never buy new even though we can afford it. 
-I do not shop at thrift stores but I do buy on sale.

What I really like and want to explore further is completely living off of one salary. Maybe once dd starts school as we use one of dh check for childcare now. Now we do eat out a lot for the sheer conviencence since we do commute. When I get home I want to spend time with my family, not get in the mitchen. And no, we aren’t cooking together with a blue apron box and smiles all around. That was a two hour nightmare![/quote]

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