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[quote=Anonymous]For me, the pandemic was the great awakening.  I had been spending $7 on coffee and $15 on lunch each day.  We were also eating dinner out/carryout 3-4 days a week or more, $50/pop (for three).  And when I would cook, it would be something special (e.g., crab cakes).  So, as a family, we wre spending about $75/day on stuff.

Since the pandemic has begun, we eat carryout about 1x per week.  Other than that, everything is home (I brew my own coffee).  Suddenly, our family is saving $1800 per month on my 190K salary.  (grocery expenses went up).

This is huge, because DD is now costing us 36K/yr in college tuition (50K saved at the beginning as of Mar 1, 60K now, but 18K spent for one semester).  Wasteful spending was the cost of college.  And we are not living like paupers now.

I may be able to cash flow the latter years of her college.  :)

So the 200/week can be real and not nefarious.  But on your income (take home, I assume), you can not afford that luxury.[/quote]

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