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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone else feel a sense of satisfaction when you go to the pool more and feel the price per visit per family member amount dropping? We are a rental this yr which isn’t cheap (850 ugh) but as we approach the 100 visit mark it’s feeling more and more worth it. And oddly enough, knowing we paid so much for it makes me hustle to get us to all go more, which is only a win for exercise.

It’s irrational bc the amount we’ve spent is the same whether we go 120 times collectively this summer or if we only went a few times, but I am cheap and the type of person who looks fwd to my mortgage ending some day so I can feel the satisfaction of living “free.” (I know, I know it’s not really free) gotta get that bang for the buck.

That said, with the upfront cost of joining a private pool here, membership, or paying for a rental, I understand why swimming is such an unequal pastime and so many Americans can’t swim (not even to mention Jim Crow segregation and how they chose to close or defund public pools out of refusal to integrate). Even public rec swimming is $10 or so per person per visit, so say you take 3 kids it’d be 40 a visit, which is painful to want to plunk down repeatedly. The upfront big $600 to 900 fee due in May fee is painful at the time to send in, but then you have the psychological comfort of having already paid so now you just enjoy it and in our case, it makes us want to use it more, which helps my kids swim better and facilitates inequality. That is great that pools are free in DC I believe. (We are in nova, classic pool founded in 1960s when white Virginians were resisting integration en masse)[/quote]

If I’m ever so hard up for money that I have to make myself miserable by counting visits to the pool, I don’t know what I’ll do. I hope you don’t say this out loud to anyone you know. [/quote]

You sound kind of like a miserable person PP. OP sounds like they are just enjoying the little things in life. You don’t have to be poor to enjoy bargain shopping or feeling like you’re getting a better deal.[/quote]

Nope. Opposite of miserable. I’m not dragging myself to the summer pool when I don’t want to go because I have to make it cheaper. Sounds like OP and you see the miserable ones, desperately hoping other people are equally pathetic. Sorry to disappoint. [/quote]

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