Two months before her wedding date, the transmission on my daughter’s car blew up. Since they were planning on dropping much of their individual savings on the wedding, I offered to help her with the trans. I didn’t need to. Her brother stepped in before me to offer the money.
Besides some small interfamily loans, none of my four kids carries any debt at all.
The son who helped on the car cost had about $30,000 in school debt which he scrimped and saved and paid in full within one year. (Kinda helps when you get a degree in a real field that pays real money and has real jobs.)
A few months before my husband and I got married, my car gave up the ghost.
We used part of our planned honeymoon money as the down-payment.
Then his car became unreliable. We used the other half for his down-payment.
Our two weeks in the Bahamas changed to a weekend in the Hamptons pretty quick.