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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thank you for all these amazing suggestions (especially the feet on OF, why didn’t I think of that?) but seriously, this was helpful just to know that we’re not alone.  I agree with so much of this in terms of YOLO with teenagers.  I feel stretched because we love traveling with them but that has gotten so insanely expensive.  I don’t want to give that up so have had to figure out where to cut.  A few thoughts:

- The alcohol thing is real.  DH stopped cold turkey at the end of last summer to get back in shape.  It was a game changer.  We have now slowly reintroduced but we never order drinks at restaurants anymore.  Big, big savings as a result.

- a few folks said packing lunch which I need to get better at.  We pack lunch for the kids but I’m so harried in the morning that I usually leave without packing my own.  Tbh, I feel so tired and stretched most days that getting lunch out a few times a week was my “me” time at the office.  But I paid $22 for a grilled chicken salad a few weeks ago and that was it for me.  I’m really having trouble adding this prep step to our routine but we probably just need to bite the bullet.

- Car: we have a 2013 Acura with 120K miles on it and have been thinking about buying another car for the past two years.  Everytime we look, we just can’t bring ourselves to shell out $50K minimum for a worse car.  I’m amazed at how many people drive their cars to 200K and beyond.  I didnt grow up rich and we always drive our cars into the ground but when I was a kid, “the ground” was 100K 😂

Glad to know it’s not just us or something we’re doing wrong.  Again, I didn’t grow up rich and have never been a spendthrift.  I think the 1-2 punch of kids becoming teenagers right when everything becoming more expensive and salaries went stagnant…just hit us hard.  I won’t give up the travel and family time though so onwards we march.

Good luck to everyone trying to raise kids in this!!

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