<p>Momfromme: We define “frugal” in most ways, but I do have to hire out the yardwork, due to some limitations I have now after some surgeries and my husband’s allergies. So while I’d love to save that money too, sometimes, you just can’t do it.</p>
<p>If I were much younger, as I expect many parents are, of the first college-bound child in the family - it would be different.</p>
<p>We each have our reasons and some of them are legitimate to us, even if someone else thinks it is an area we could cut. I do drive a 10 year old van that I purchased cash from an old man who drove it once to Florida, though ! ;)</p>