👴👵 The 6 Ways Grandparents Overspend on Grandkids (AARP Article)

[Winter2025VA]

FROM THE ARTICLE.

Sure, you want to spoil them — but don’t let it run down your nest egg.

By Beth Braverman, AARP. Published December 29, 2025.

Many grandparents love to dote on their grandchildren. But that indulgence has a price tag, and it’s a lot higher than it used to be.

“Things are way more expensive than they were 30 or 40 years ago,” says Pedro Silva, principal partner at Apex Investment Group, a financial planning firm in Hudson, Massachusetts. Decades ago, “kids didn’t do as much stuff, and they didn’t have cellphone subscriptions and Netflix and laptops and iPhones,” he says.

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