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[quote=Anonymous]At 300K, you have a *lot* of income. Question is more along the lines of how to tighten up on spending and embrace the trade-offs involved. It may be worth looking at the Mr. Money Mustache forums - the people there tend towards a combination of unreasonably frugal / unreasonably hopeful about investment returns, but if you look at their "case studies" section, you can see how they go about looking deep into various people's budgets. In fact, just the exercise of keeping track of spending can be quite eye-opening. We're ~160K, four kids, stay at home spouse, elderly in-laws live with us and need support, one kid in private, and save money. We're not super tight-fisted, I think. But cars are > 10 years old, we mow our own lawn, no housekeeping, restaurant visits less than once a month. This lets us afford two vacations a year - once to the beach during off-season, once to drive a few hours to visit family. We live further out than McLean, though. [/quote]
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