Every week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.
This week’s question:
We often go on holiday with another family – we have two children while they have three. We’ve always halved the costs, but now the kids are older is it reasonable to divide the expenditure differently, given there are five of them and four of us?
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