Living in Los Angeles is expensive, especially when you factor in 4 kids. Two things that have made our life economically viable over the last few years are Melissa's ability to save (she is amazing and the best family CFO I've ever met) and our joint ability to bargain shop. The DI up in Sacramento has been particularly helpful on that front. We were up for my 20th high school reunion (I know, I don't look a day over 30) and did a stop by on the way to the event. By way of background, we bought a 12 inch bike from Amazon in order to get the older boys up and riding. It was around 100 bucks, but is a very nice bike. Julian took to it like a duck to water and is really doing great now. Problem is all of the other kids also need/want turns.
Luckily DI had two 12 inch bikes in varying states of disrepair, which we were able to snag for 20 bucks total! After a couple of hours of tinkering (putting on new pedals, greasing the chains, etc) we had them up and running. Now, they aren't as nice as the 100 bike, but they run fine and are perfect starter vehicles. Just need to find one more set of training wheels for Jack and Christian. Just having trouble getting over the thought of spending more for training wheels than the bike I'm putting them on!
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Way to go guys! Looking forward to seeing the kids ride those bikes. Wondering if I'll be able to tell which one is the $100 one :)
Must be quite a sight to see all the bikes in motion.
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