<p>curiouser, my daughter hasn’t gone off to college yet, but we’ve already had this conversation many times, that she will ALWAYS encounter people who have more than she does, and can spend more than she can, and so she will have to pick and choose. So if she has friends who are going away for the weekend, she can go, but she’ll have to forego the next shopping trip, or she can get new jeans, but will have to skip the concert. Whatever those choices are. I think that it will be hard for her at times, but you know what - it’s hard for ME at times, but that’s life. I don’t get to do all the fun stuff I want to do either. Oh well. </p>
<p>I haven’t yet set a spending amount, I suspect she’ll have to figure that out for herself, out of her own money. One of the unfortunate things is that it’s always easier to see the spenders and partiers than it is to see the savers. I mean, if you don’t go out on a shopping spree, you don’t announce that to your friends on your floor, right?</p>