Taylor Swift tickets

[Anonymous]

I am not taking my 8 year old daughter - but I would have tried to get tix if she came to DC. Next time I might try to get tix even if she doesn’t come to DC.

If you can actually comfortably afford it - I might do it even though it’s crazy (but reasonable minds can differ on this). How much were you budgeting for her next bday gift and Xmas or Hanukkah gifts - and would she be willing to also consider the tickets both those gifts too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not taking my 8 year old daughter - but I would have tried to get tix if she came to DC. Next time I might try to get tix even if she doesn’t come to DC.

If you can actually comfortably afford it - I might do it even though it’s crazy (but reasonable minds can differ on this). How much were you budgeting for her next bday gift and Xmas or Hanukkah gifts - and would she be willing to also consider the tickets both those gifts too?

Yes, she is willing to forego all other gifts this year and a birthday party - but I feel like so much of what is driving this is fomo and she’s going to be disappointed about not getting to do those things or hang out with her friends in hs because she’s agreed to babysit her siblings…

[Anonymous]

I'm not OP but offering 600 hours of free babysitting or offering to forego X years worth of holiday/bday gifts is such a shortsighted teen/tween thing to do that she'll regret when she doesn't care about Taylor Swift next year.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not taking my 8 year old daughter - but I would have tried to get tix if she came to DC. Next time I might try to get tix even if she doesn’t come to DC.

If you can actually comfortably afford it - I might do it even though it’s crazy (but reasonable minds can differ on this). How much were you budgeting for her next bday gift and Xmas or Hanukkah gifts - and would she be willing to also consider the tickets both those gifts too?

Yes, she is willing to forego all other gifts this year and a birthday party - but I feel like so much of what is driving this is fomo and she’s going to be disappointed about not getting to do those things or hang out with her friends in hs because she’s agreed to babysit her siblings…

I have an 8th grader too. I mean how much are you really expecting her to babysit with this offer? I would probably try to come up with something more reasonable than 600?? Maybe 10?? That said my 13 year old babysits for free from time to time and I didn’t want it to be like I had to pay him every time for him to do it.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not taking my 8 year old daughter - but I would have tried to get tix if she came to DC. Next time I might try to get tix even if she doesn’t come to DC.

If you can actually comfortably afford it - I might do it even though it’s crazy (but reasonable minds can differ on this). How much were you budgeting for her next bday gift and Xmas or Hanukkah gifts - and would she be willing to also consider the tickets both those gifts too?

Yes, she is willing to forego all other gifts this year and a birthday party - but I feel like so much of what is driving this is fomo and she’s going to be disappointed about not getting to do those things or hang out with her friends in hs because she’s agreed to babysit her siblings…

I have an 8th grader too. I mean how much are you really expecting her to babysit with this offer? I would probably try to come up with something more reasonable than 600?? Maybe 10?? That said my 13 year old babysits for free from time to time and I didn’t want it to be like I had to pay him every time for him to do it.

But to be clear I also don’t expect him to do it a ton and I never make him cancel plans - if he has plans then I have to figure something else out.

[Anonymous]

We are going to Denver in July. I got floor seats two rows back from the diamond for $1,900 two weeks ago on Stubhub.

But it looks like people have figured out how low Denver and the other cities are. Floor seats that are 25 rows behind us are now $2,500+

Pittsburgh prices have gone INSANE this week as well.

I’m pretty sure that the prices are only going to keep going up during the tour. The hype is not dying down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s ridiculous. I don’t think they’ll come down. Save your money and skip it.

We spent $7K on a Disney trip. This is going to be even better.

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Anonymous wrote:If you were to go, OP, how much would the total spend be? Do you share a love of the music so it wouldn’t be bonding or is this exclusively her dream?

I would either need 2 or 3 tickets since her younger sister - who isn’t as much of a fan but still loves her - would probably be devastated and never forgive us if we didn’t take her too. The cheapest tix are @1800 each and that’s usually for bad seats.

FYI there are no bad seats at this show.

Aren't they selling obstructed seats?

Well those are going for ONLY 600 or so. The 1800 may be high up but still amazing views.

Right now Stubhub has tickets behind the stage for $1,700.

I love Taylor. I went Sunday in Nashville and I stayed up until 1:30 AM in the rain, got three hours of sleep, caught a flight home, and had an absolute BLAST. I wouldn't pay $1,800/person for the experience though.

TickPick still has some decent lower bowl
seats for $1,800 for Philly Friday night. Friday nights tend to be the cheapest nights as people are still holding out hope that Sat/Sun could drop. (Spoiler - they don’t)

[Anonymous]

The cheapest tickets are in southern cal since she is doing so many shows there in early August.

Can you make it a family vacation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The cheapest tickets are in southern cal since she is doing so many shows there in early August.

Can you make it a family vacation?

She’ll be at sleepaway camp until the date of the last show - which is too bad because my mom lives in Southern California and it would be easy to go there while visiting her!!

She came back this evening with “it’s ok, I don’t NEED to go but I’d still really like to go” so I think she’s calming down a bit.

If she wasn’t already doing sleepaway camp plus a 2.5 week trip to Asia earlier in the summer I would be much more likely to spend the money on this. As it is we are spending over $12,000 on her summer plans alone and that doesn’t include any family travel yet.

And yes, she does babysit her siblings sometimes and I don’t always pay her but I do pay her (or buy her something she wants) some of the time, like for babysitting on a Saturday night. She is a REALLY good kid and ordinarily I’d give her just about anything within reason - but again this isn’t a reasonable request.

[Anonymous]

My 10yo wants to go and while we could technically afford it, spending thousands on concert tickets just isn’t something we’re going to do. Just on principle because it’s ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 10yo wants to go and while we could technically afford it, spending thousands on concert tickets just isn’t something we’re going to do. Just on principle because it’s ridiculous.

Yes this is what I keep coming back to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not OP but offering 600 hours of free babysitting or offering to forego X years worth of holiday/bday gifts is such a shortsighted teen/tween thing to do that she'll regret when she doesn't care about Taylor Swift next year.

If it was me, I know it would not be realistic that I would end up enforcing this (the 600 hours of babysitting in itself is practically unenforceable) and that wouldn't send the best message either.

[Anonymous]

No, OP. Your kid doesn’t need this and, based on her summer plans, needs to start learning she doesn’t always get what she wants.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The cheapest tickets are in southern cal since she is doing so many shows there in early August.

Can you make it a family vacation?

She’ll be at sleepaway camp until the date of the last show - which is too bad because my mom lives in Southern California and it would be easy to go there while visiting her!!

She came back this evening with “it’s ok, I don’t NEED to go but I’d still really like to go” so I think she’s calming down a bit.

If she wasn’t already doing sleepaway camp plus a 2.5 week trip to Asia earlier in the summer I would be much more likely to spend the money on this. As it is we are spending over $12,000 on her summer plans alone and that doesn’t include any family travel yet.

And yes, she does babysit her siblings sometimes and I don’t always pay her but I do pay her (or buy her something she wants) some of the time, like for babysitting on a Saturday night. She is a REALLY good kid and ordinarily I’d give her just about anything within reason - but again this isn’t a reasonable request.

This is helpful context and I think your instincts towards not pursuing expensive tickets is correct.