@gailcalled I have been thinking along those lines. It just bothered me so much that they were charging so much more than my old ballet school. It’s not just paying the money, it’s reinforcing business that rips people off. It triggers those same feelings I get with doctors double dipping because I have insurance or hospitals sending out a bill just to see if it gets paid, but will cut it down if the patient is savvy enough. It bother me so much on so many levels.
I haven’t looked at prices where I live now, but the little research I did there don’t seem to be many adult classes. In Boca Raton it just happened to be done in an ideal way. Adults just bought a card for 20 classes, and they punched the card when you used it. The expiration date was something like a year out and they had about 12 adult classes a week, I think 8 were classical ballet, the others, modern, jazz, and Pilates. Most other places you buy classes either for a very inflated pay by the class or buy a season like the children do, but for adults that is impractical because things come up, we travel, etc.
@dappled_leaves Why is that necessary? No one below the top 1% has discretionary income? Give me a break.
@cookieman I could stand to buy more new clothes too. My husband calls me retrato, which means portrait/photograph, because I wear the same clothes over and over.