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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Three trips away is not "countless vacations."

Our travel in the past year included:

A summer mountain trip (drove, divided cost of house with several family members, took lots of day trips to scenic locations that could have made it look like a pricey family vacation in photos but it wasn't and husband stayed home and worked).

Kids went to grandparents while DH and I spent a week in Europe.  Used miles and upgrades for business class seats, stayed in reasonable hotels.

An all expenses paid beach retreat for the family through work.  Half work, half play, pricey resort.  Drove, hotel, meals and outings/activities paid by firm.  Spent almost nothing, was just 2 days but if we had posted Facebook photos you might assume we were off on yet another expensive jaunt.

Several days over Christmas spent at in-laws' winter house in a balmy location.  Lots of semi-exotic photo ops.  Lodging free, tickets bought with miles.

Ski trip to Rockies.  Reasonable accommodations, found decently priced airline tickets, free lift tickets for kids.

All in all we used about two weeks of work vacation days (some working remotely), maybe 12 days of reasonably priced lodging, and four round trip tickets.  If you didn't know this and just saw photos on social media you might think we spend a week a month traveling and pay out the nose for expensive resorts and air travel.[/quote]

OP -- here ya go.[/quote]

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