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[quote=Anonymous]A PP again.

At HHI of $200-ish K...

2 daycare bills...there is no prestige daycare where I live...I remember these bills together were about the cost of renting a 1 BR apt.

We did toddler music at home at low cost using DVDs of music educators and our own set of instruments.

Kids went to nice summer day camps all summer long at elementary school age...$300-400 ea. per week.  Zoo, robotics, entrepreneurship, etc.

One kid did two years of martial arts.

Both went through swim lessons from early toddler to highest lesson level before swim team at the local Y.

We took the kids skiing and snowboarding and each had some ski school and formal lessons. Hundreds of dollars each season.

Each started music lessons in 6th grade which is very late.  $25/half hour min per kid, weekly. I wanted them to love music, not force it.  My first music lesson with an instrument was at 4 years old.  Husband also started early.  They were fine for high school orchestra...but would never be recruited to college to round out an ensemble.  One does a local youth orchestra on top of school orchestra ($400 a year).  We also sent them each to music sleepaway camp 1-2 times each...about $1,200 for ten days each enrollment.

For several years in middle school/high school, spent about $650/mo. on franchise math tutoring for both, during the school year.  Needed to solidify their math skill sets post-pandemic and keep their grades up.

We avoided sports...no time for youth soccer without trashing our workweek and weekends.  No other team sports would have been a good fit.  Saved a lot that way and the kids didn't care.  But it was a bit counterculture.

Sent each kid to a special language or study abroad camp 1x during high school. $6K for the language camp, maybe $8K for the study abroad camp, including airfare.

High school ECs were pretty inexpensive.  From what I see, sports and anything that travels outside the metro are the things that raise costs.

Our townhouse is relatively inexpensive.  I gather in the outskirts of Bethesda, it might be a $700K property, based on age and size.  This frees up money for these luxuries.[/quote]

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