If I tracked it I would bet we go get food and bring it home probably 1.75 times a week. We rarely eat out at a sit down restaurant. Just not worth it. When we get food and bring home I would say it averages $8-9 per person. I never get drinks. I also would never do ubereats or doordash. We look for deals or coupons.
Same deal when we are at the grocery store. Always looking at what is on sale.
I am not a fan of used cars, but we drive our cars into the ground. My wife is driving a 13 year old car.
We saved what we could in a 529 starting early. Of course it wasn’t enough.
We only went to Disney because I won a nice sum of money in a poker tournament. Many of our vacations were driving ones to my childhood city to see family. Ironically those were some of the best ones.
The last part we knew the game from the beginning and knew that good grades/scores meant merit$. We tried to start the kids off right early and watched them closely. Made sure they were doing ECs.