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[quote=Anonymous]I'm in a very similar situation, lower cost of living area, but about the same salary to cost of living ratio. I really try to stress the joy in our lives with my daughter. We live very close to a beautiful park, we have a safe warm home, we eat food we like. I am always willing to host friends and sleepovers, we spend a lot of time with people we like. We go camping with friends which is very cheap and my daughter's favorite thing in the world. I play up the little treats, popsicles in the summer, an outing for hot chocolate. I think as my daughter has gotten older, she is more accepting and happy about the way we live. It also helps that she goes to a very income diverse school and while we have friends at all income levels, very few are ostentatious about what they have.

I think it's a positive for kids not to have everything. I picked up my daughter's friend and was taking them out to dinner. We had to catch the bus and the friend was really struggling with the fact that we had to walk four blocks to the bus stop. It's good for kids to have a little discomfort in their lives and to have things they want but can't have. [/quote]

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