I paid D2’s last tuition payment last week. We will do some small home renovations and put additional funds towards paying off the mortgage. We have been fortunate over the past few years to have additional money for travel from a side business my H is involved in.
Throwing money towards retirement and savings. Doing some travel while I am healthy enough to do so. There is lots of deferred maintenance that needs to be done on the house; am starting with the small stuff and working our way up.
I love this thread. We are just at the beginning with our oldest headed off to college this fall and then 2 more following for a total of 12 years of college tuitions ahead. I feel like we just finished with before/after school daycare for our youngest, and before that years of daycare/preschool. Reading your replies gives me hope that the neglected house projects will get done and trips will happen. Right now we are still in shock about the costs of college and trying to put away as much as we can for the younger two since we are not counting on the merit scholarships to still be around in the years when our second will be heading off. Congrats to all for making it through!
My H quit his more lucrative job (medicine) and became a teacher instead.
We bought a second home that will become a first(only) home as soon as we can swing it.
A wedding.
Replaced a 17 year old car.
Breathed.
Well H and I actually bought several new cars and sold our “old” cars to S and D2. We gave them very good deals. And H and I have two new, fully paid for, cars.
Additionally, we have been taking two longer, more than weekend, trips per year. One in the winter at a warm place.
The last three year have been at all inclusive adult resorts. LOVE them.
Our summer trips are more adventurous, learning, trekking, etc. We’ve gone abroad and done the US national parks.
Additionally, we do weekends away and spend time in NYC at D1’s.
No more pay for college, time to have fun for us payees.
The first semester after that final payment is like having a second job that you don’t have to go to. Wait, what? There’s how much in the bank?
We did what most others have already posted… remodeling, doubling down on retirement and more travel.
We are traveling more and staying longer at nicer hotels–want to be able to do so while we are still able to enjoy it.
One more year of tuition for DS2. If you include preschool, we have been paying tuition yearly since 1994. We are helping DS1 out a little bit with living expenses in grad school, but a year from now we will essentially be finished; I am practically counting the days. We will deal with a lot of the household improvements that we have been putting off like re-doing our bathroom, upgrading (but not totally re-doing) our kitchen, and doing some outside landscape work. Also perhaps some more travel. Can. not. wait. 
I’m only finishing up paying for year 3 of 9 between 3 kids. After that will start the weddings, ugh.
Well, for a while we saved that “extra” money – but apparently we were saving it for a wedding 
I do not plan to pay for big weddings. And certainly would not pay the cost of an education.
I don’t honestly think elaborate weddings are my kids style. Maybe D1 would like a big party. She loves to entertain. But if it got elaborate, she would want to pay for it herself. And she could with no pain.
But so far, no weddings are being planned. D1 is in a very long term committed relationship. But no marriage plans. Apparently the “marriage tax penalty” makes getting married irrational at this point.
D2 has been In a committed relationship for 15 months, but no marriage plans.
S just broke up with girlfriend of 3 1/2 years. Marriage is certainly not in the near future.
So I guess the traveling will continue! Also some house projects, but I am sick of them. Need some major landscaping done and I dread it.
I want to be done, mostly, with things and into experiences.
Unfortunately, I do not think the experience of becoming a grandparent will happen anytime soon given what I wrote above about marriages! Haha
Well…I got granite countertops in my kitchen, and bought a new car. We took a three week trip to South Africa, Rwanda, and Brussels.
I retired from my full time job!