How do people afford the countless vacations?

[Anonymous]

I never post vacation pics on FB because vacations are for my (and my family's) consumption only. I take tons of pics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never post vacation pics on FB because vacations are for my (and my family's) consumption only. I take tons of pics.

+1. I also try to be vague at work. Greedy jealous people everywhere trying to count some one else's money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I never post vacation pics on FB because vacations are for my (and my family's) consumption only. I take tons of pics.

+1. I also try to be vague at work. Greedy jealous people everywhere trying to count some one else's money.

+1

[Anonymous]

We do not buy fancy cars. We pack our lunches. Eat out once a week.

We make $580,000 a year and $25,000 to $30,000 a year on vacation for a family of four.

We are funded for retirement and the kids colleges will be paid.

[Anonymous]

What do you people call "a vacation"? For me a vacation is 7-10 days at a destination. I know very few people who take 4 weeks off a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you people call "a vacation"? For me a vacation is 7-10 days at a destination. I know very few people who take 4 weeks off a year.

At least 3 days away from DC.....which is what some people can afford.
Anything past 7 days is a bonus.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]No kids, combined HHI of $72k, maxing out retirement, one car paid for in cash, rent is $1200k for a teeny apartment in a neighborhood we love, mid-20s----we do a 5-10 long weekends a year that usually coincide with fed holidays (cabin in Shenandoah during the winter where we hole up with board games and books in front of a cozy fireplace, NYC once a year, smaller towns like Harper's Ferry/Asheville/Gettysburg, more remote parts of OBX), aren't foodies so are content with cooking at our Airbnb 75% of our trip, mostly stay on the east coast where the most we'll spend on a long weekend is $300-$500 total. Travel is important to us---not only as a break to 'recharge' from daily life, but we value experiencing other cultures and ways of life. On a relationship note, we travel really well together and have done 6 hour road trips to see family for Thanksgiving/Christmas since we started dating, and our relationship really benefits from the time spent in the car together---that's where a lot of our major life decisions have been made after lots of discussion---something about the open road can bring clarity to our lives at home very easily.

We did one big int'l trip in the last year---a $7k 18 day trip to Australia that I meticulously budgeted for (I checked flight prices every night before bed and every morning for like two months before I bought our tickets)---and we splurged on that trip because it was our honeymoon---I.E. I spent maybe $2k more on whole-house rentals versus just a room/keeping our flights to two legs with short layovers, a few nice dinners out, etc. But I'm a research nerd who will read a gazillion articles/reviews of everything/Google map everything before we travel, so we get a lot of so-called bang for our buck.

I'm in the planning stages of our next big trip, which is hopefully next fall. It's important to us to get a lot of our always-wanted-to-go-there travel done in the next few years before we have kids. [/quote]

Do you mind sharing details of your Australia trip? I can start a new thread on Travel. I'm dying to go there and NZ!! :D

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you people call "a vacation"? For me a vacation is 7-10 days at a destination. I know very few people who take 4 weeks off a year.

I'm the PP who travels a lot on a HHI of $170K. I call it a vacation, because I take vacation days from work. Would you rather hear that we "travel" many times a year, mostly for 3-4 days trips at a time? Seriously?