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"My driver's license cost 4,000 yuan, my cell phone cost 6,000 yuan, my graduation trip cost 8,000 yuan, myopia surgery cost 20,000 yuan, clothes and shoes cost 2,000 yuan, and my laptop cost 8,000 yuan, a total of 48,000 yuan."

Recently, many parents have posted"Post-College Entrance Examination Bill"- Summer expenses for children who are about to go to college,The price ranges from 50,000 to 60,000 yuan, and from over 10,00, among which mobile phones, computers and other digital products accounted for the majority.

Some parents think that their children had a hard time in high school and did well in the college entrance examination, so they are happy to spend the money. Some parents think that they should spend money in moderation, which makes some parents who are not financially well-off feel troubled, fearing that they will hurt their children...

Screenshot of summer bill on social media

The summer vacation has not yet ended, and Mr. Jin has already spent more than 30,000 yuan on his daughter who is about to go to college.

"We are an ordinary family and we don't spend money recklessly in normal times, but it feels hard to save money during the summer vacation." Mr. Jin lives in Wenzhou. His daughter is very hardworking and was admitted to a well-known university. Recently, he started to prepare "essential items" for his child's university. "A computer costs about 10,000 yuan and is needed for undergraduate and graduate studies. It would be best if we could get it all at once. But my daughter is carefree and easily forgets things, so I bought her a smartphone for about 3,000 yuan."

Mr. Jin bought a computer for his child

My daughter spent 15,000 yuan to take the IELTS exam during the summer vacation. At the end of July, our family went to Changsha for a trip, which cost another 6,000 to 7,000 yuan.

Mr. Jin asked the parents of prospective college students around him and found that their spending was similar:"I spent about 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, and I only bought necessary things."Mr. Jin said that he was not "extravagant". "Compared with the parents around me who spend a lot of money to send their children to college, I think college education should be more simple."

As school was about to start, he was thinking about his daughter's monthly living expenses during college: "Two thousand five to three thousand a month, should that be enough?"

"In fact, I have consciously reduced useless expenses, such as clothes and cosmetics, but the total cost is still quite high." Xiao Liu from Hangzhou is helpless and doesn't know where the "problem" lies.

But there are exceptions.

Xiao Huang passed the examZhejiang University of Science and Technology, need to buy a computer and a mobile phone. His mother wanted to buy him a good computer, but Xiao Huang thought "it's not necessary, as long as it can be used." Xiao Huang's mother calculated that the computer, mobile phone and summer travel expenses would cost a little over 10,000 yuan.

Xiao Xu from Hangzhou not only didn’t spend much, but also earned more than 3,000 yuan. Xiao Xu’s mother said,My daughter started working as soon as the summer vacation started, and she also bought gifts for her grandparents and everyone in the family."She spent 5,000 yuan to buy a mobile phone. She didn't buy a new computer because the one she had at home was still usable. We also gave her 3,000 to 4,000 yuan in free funds. She went to Qiandao Lake with her classmates and also went to Jiaxing to watch figure skating."

Xiao Xu bought gifts for his family with the money he earned from working

In fact, most of these expenses are concentrated inDigital products, travel, driver's licenseThis also makes it difficult for some parents who are not financially well-off:It is not easy for children to get into a university, and they need to release their emotions after the college entrance examination. If you don’t satisfy them at this time, I feel that the child will be sad.

One prospective college student said: "I persevered through my senior year of high school by having expectations of what I would do after the college entrance exam. These expectations included not only mobile phones and computers,What I care more about is whether my parents truly understand my feelings.When I bought a mobile phone, computer, or tablet or went on a graduation trip, I would carefully make a spending plan to figure out which money to spend and which to save. I actually had an account in my mind.”

There are also high school graduates who post for help:I don't dare to ask my parents, but after looking at every item on the bill I feel it is necessary. Is there any way to save money?

Some parents who have been through it gave some advice: computers are indeed a basic need, and you can buy a better one if you can afford it; you don’t have to buy the latest model of smartphone; there is no need to buy all the cosmetics and skin care products at once, because no matter how comprehensive your preparations are, you will still have to buy a lot of things when you start freshman year, and you will have to spend a lot of money at that time, so it is better to buy them slowly.