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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the PP poster - I agree - I am saying I am NOT a donut hole family - and that peers who are whining about colllege at that level are ridiculous.[/quote]
Who is whining about college at 700K? Haven't seen it.

Donut hole depends on number of kids. 300K for 1 kid is a lot different than 300K for 3 or 4.[/quote]

3-4 kids vs. 1 is a lifestyle choice.[/quote]

And if you choose the 3-4, then you need to scale back your lifestyle or get a better paying jobs.  You chose to bring those kids into the world, so it really is your job as parents to provide the basics, and that IMO includes access to 4 year college without major debt and scaling back your home and vacations to do so.  Because yes, if you have 4 kids, they likely are not all getting a car to drive when they turn 16, where someone with only 1-2 kids, might be able to do that---we provided that, the kid at driving age got one of our "older cars" and we as parents got a new car, then 4 years later the other parent got a new car and the younger kid got "their car to drive in HS/college".  
heck, we chose to have our kids at least 4 years apart.  One of many reasons was so that we'd likely only have one in college at same time, making it easier to cash flow part of it if needed (but we saved enough before hand).  I have 2 friends who have 3 kids in about 40-45 months (no multiples).  And man is the thought of college and paying for it stressful.  But that is the choice they made, you don't accidentally get pregnant, especially when you have a 4-5 month old, you can make easy choices to prevent that and space your kids out to 2-3 years if you want.  [/quote]

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