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The high school and college years can be expensive or as cheap as you want it to be (to some degree). My parents buy me most of the clothes i want, but I do spend the cash on stuff I really want. I drove the extra car for awhile, but then my dad bought me one (couldve done it myself) because I haul my sister around a lot. In terms of college, all the schools im applying to are going to be at least 40K, maybe 50K when all said and done. No before you start calling me spoiled I have had a job since i was 11 years old mowing llawns, then i started caddying now I do catering and still do the other stuff once the summer starts. He lets me save my money and has tought me to value it so that once I'm done with college he no longer has to support me.

So basically you can give your kids the world or you can make them pay their own way. You cant go wrong either way if you impart the right values on them.