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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. Since quite a few people asked - she has a barre membership. It does have childcare, not free, but pretty cheap. She does go 3-4 times a week. She’s not really interested in weights or cardio machines so never was interested in a regular gym membership.

Yes, I do spend on myself but I mentioned the hair and gym as comparable categories. I work from home and probably eat lunch out one to two times a week. I rarely get coffee out. As for kids clothing - yes that is not for her but she is in control of how much to buy and there seems to always be another “cute outfit” every week. Our kids do look very cute but these add up!

This is the first time we sit down to discuss expenses on such a detailed level. She has not pointed out anything on my part she would like me to cut. I don’t have expensive hobbies like some earlier posters mentioned. My discretionary spending is very low. We don’t do expensive birthday gifts for me (my wife always plans a nice experience for us though). Until recently I haven’t even thought to look into her expenses because before the kids she was contributing good money too. We only did this now because the arrival of the second will postpone her return to work and I am more worried about not saving enough.

Appreciate the responses here, guess it’s not too abnormal for this area. Guess it’s good routine maintenance of a man isn’t nearly as much, we would be broke! 
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