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[quote=Anonymous]We take a lot of vacations on about half your budget.  One two week trip, two week long trips and about 10 long weekends a year, on average. We have healthy retirement savings, but we have been maxing out 401ks for almost 20 years now, so we don't feel it.  We prioritize travel a lot, as we consider it the most educational and beneficial thing that you can do for your children.  Every single trip involves, in addition to the inherent education in the travel, additional family projects and studies related to the trip.  Also, on all but the most intensive of trips, we use this time together to shore up other skills by incorporating math, grammar, linguistic, geographic, or other lessons.  We look for great deals and stay in some pretty inexpensive places - under $50/night often and almost always under $125/night.  We are lucky that college is not a factor for us, as it will be paid for by grandparents (and our mortgage will be paid off regardless so we would be able to help if necessary).  My parents also contribute a few thousand a year to help defray travel costs so that we can keep the balance of having jobs that allow the leave and the money to travel.  This is the only financial support they have ever given after college, but they too think that travel is extraordinarily important and  educational.  We rarely travel with family, but the entire family travels way more than is average.[/quote]

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