John Deloney

Right.

Right.

And so some of that problem takes care of itself.

You might want to look at the two younger kids and say, OK, we want to make sure this is different for them, too.

But you're 16 and 17 year old have found themselves like life just happened.

And so you all need to have some honest conversations about that.

what we can afford and what we can't afford and what debt has done to us over the years.

And here's the options in our local area, free community college, low cost state tuition.

Like you just need to have those honest conversations with a 16 and 17 year old.

Okay, great.

Yeah, my 16 year old's college fund is in a high yield savings account.

It's exactly where it is.

And let me just free you, brother.

None of this is going to be exactly fair.

And what I mean by fair is there's no way you're going to be able to find another $500 great running car, right?

And hopefully you're making $280 at that time, right?

Right.

And just go ahead and build in the psychological cushion for your oldest, getting back from the Marines, being like, are you kidding me?

You bought so-and-so?

And you'd be like, yep.