Jimonlimon
Recycles dryer sheets
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Basic question is how did your budget change from kids at home fully dependant to kids out of school with jobs living on their own?
We have two kids off at college and I want to retire before they graduate. I don't really know how to budget for post-graduation. It's easy to quantify tuition and housing expenses- other things like food, utilities, general living expenses sort of disappear into our overall household expenditures.
Did you carefully track and segregate these expenses or just wake up one day realizing that the grocery bill went down?
My assumption is that other than travel, our household expenses won't go up when we're true "empty nesters".
We have two kids off at college and I want to retire before they graduate. I don't really know how to budget for post-graduation. It's easy to quantify tuition and housing expenses- other things like food, utilities, general living expenses sort of disappear into our overall household expenditures.
Did you carefully track and segregate these expenses or just wake up one day realizing that the grocery bill went down?
My assumption is that other than travel, our household expenses won't go up when we're true "empty nesters".
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