Actually, we homeschool our daughter (2nd daughter is only 2). But she did go to preschool. My wife wanted a 3 day a week preschool. I wanted 2 because it was less. So we compromised and did 2 days and 1 day of the early learning program that is free in Wake County. But no, I would not pay for an expensive preschool or private school. But my daughters do have a college fund.
As for activities like the iron man, I do a couple of half marathons a year and pay for it out of my "blow money". Since we live on a Dave Ramsey type budget where we both agree on how every dollar is going to be spent (talking general categories here), we each get a small amount of "blow" money every 2 weeks to do whatever we want with. I use that for my races. I would never pay money to run half marathons (I've done one full and that was enough for me) out of money meant for their college fund or other activities.
