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[quote=Anonymous]You're right you can't afford all 3. We spaced ours out. Married at 25, house at 30, kids 32-35. If you want them all right now at 30, you should elope. The older you wait to get married, the more people expect too. I had a lovely wedding, but people didn't expect much from mine at 25 (and of course gave us less money because we were young). No money from parents. I would definitely suggest getting a house before kids. Our daycare bills are $2500 a month. Hard to save for a house with that. Prior to having kids we made like 170k and saved about 50-70k a year. Not so easy to be frugal when you have to spend so much on daycare, so much on food, have to buy more plane tickets, more everything really. And you can't work overtime because you want to be present for them too. Grandparents demands go through the roof too. So if you didn't have to travel nonstop before, you will once you have kids and you will be paying the holiday airfare and hotel rates. [/quote]
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