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[quote=Anonymous]You seem set on maintaining a particular lifestyle, one that is very comfortable and frankly is beyond your means if you want to include kids in the mix. You expect a life where you don't have to tighten your belts--on the basis of your education and HHI. You justify the size of your mortgage by emphasizing that it "is well within normal lending standards." It's too late for you, but how we made it work was having kids before achieving that comfortable lifestyle. We never needed to belt tighten because the belt was already on the last hole. We rented, we couponed, we bought used, we traveled only to see family. All that is fine when you have little kids, because all they want to do anyway is be at home or play at the playground. So for us it wasn't the sacrifice that you see it as. Now, as our kids are getting older, and our incomes are rising, we are beginning to life that comfortable lifestyle that you are hesitant to give up.[/quote]
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