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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How can a kid spend only 500 per month. Do they never get chipotle or take an uber or go 
To cvs for toiletries? Thats how much I spent in college in the early 90’s [/quote]

This!

My college was in a major city though, so everyone liked to go out to restaurants, clubs, etc.  I was broke with $100/week.[/quote]

Nobody answers a thread like this except people who want to flex on how little they spend. [/quote]

These threads are dominated by the skinflints. They also say they give their kids nothing and then list all the exceptions that they pay for (books, they use the Amazon account, buy them all their toiletries, etc etc). It’s totally unhelpful for someone who wants to know how much to budget.

My kid is at college in an apartment in a big city and he spends about $1,200 to $1,500 a month for *everything* except rent (books, utilities, groceries, airfare home, eating out, etc). He eats lunch on campus most days, which is a lot of the $$, and I looked into getting him a meal plan, but it was more than he is spending. When he was in the dorm, it was more like $600-800. He is by no means the biggest spender in his cohort.  [/quote]

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