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Originally Posted by Mom2blessings
I can't imagine spending more than 20 a day! My family of 6 (including one teenager) eats from 500 to 600 per month in groceries, so I will be in for a shock if the FC eat that much by themself.
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Well, I'll admit that we probably eat too expensively -we all like lots of meat. Being in small town Alberta, groceries are really expensive. But then, too, I give him $6.00 per school day for lunch at the school cafeteria, and I COULD cut down on that expense and make him pack his lunch. And then I spend about $200 a month on clothes, because he is growing really fast, AND is really hard on his clothes (especially shoes). He doesn't want for anything, but I know that I'm not making any "extra" money on him. Even school fees this year were $600, because he is taking all shop/mechanics etc. classes. When he originally came to us last year, I thought that I could squirrel away a bit each month to save up for his portion of our trip to DisneyWorld that is coming up in a couple weeks now, but it sure didn't work out that way. It's going to cost us nearly $2000 just for him, with all the normal expenses of plane fare, tickets etc PLUS the need to have a second hotel room (which we wouldn't have needed if it was just us).