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[quote=Anonymous]It continually stuns me the amount of stuff people have and the amount of space they need.

Like the OP we have two kids.

And we do just fine with a station wagon, including for road trips and regular trips to the beach.  The car was more than adequate when we had two car seats and is more than adequate now that our oldest is more than 5 feet tall and the other will be in a couple of years.  The car is also perfectly adequate for getting us to trail heads when we go backpacking/camping.

We meet in-laws at the beach each year who show up in this SUV that could carry an entire lacrosse team and they have a trailer and a roof rack too.  And like us just two kids.

But they bring bikes for the entire family (that no one ever rides) and boogie boards and coolers and enough food to live on for a week along with two bags per person.  I have no idea what they are packing for but it is stunning the amount of stuff they show up with - the amount of time they waste packing and unloading it, the amount of it they don't use or ever need, the money they waste on this stuff.

The irony, that they will never get, is that their great suburban home near Annapolis is regularly not reachable because of flooding caused by global warming.  Something that happened a couple of times a year when they moved in 12 years ago and now happens weekly.  But hey keep driving the Yukon because of some need or insecurity that no one can articulate.

We really need to get by in this world with what we need not what we want or what makes us most comfortable.

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