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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let my post be the one that urges everyone to go touch grass!

Family of five, HHI of about 160k. The past several years, we have done about 4 days at the beach in an Air Bnb that is not more than $2000. Last year, it was a one bedroom condo in ocean city, but ocean front and with an indoor pool. This year, it's a SFH that's about a 5 minutes walk to the beach in Norfolk, VA. Two years ago, it was Chincoteague, a house with a huge yard, but we had to drive 15 minutes to the beach. We make meals at the house and eat out (carry out) maybe once. So, all in all, we probably spend 3K +/- on summer vacation. [/quote]

A family of 5 in a one bedroom condo? Frankly, I'd rather just stay home. That sounds miserable. [/quote]

3 teens and we are not extravagant vacationers (don't even have valid passports TBH except for DH)....and I agree. Hard nope. [/quote]

+ 1 - I mean if you are going to cook and live in a 1 BR all together - why even spend anything to vacation - that sounds worse than your life not vacationing?  LOL

When we go away, no I am not cooking.  I am not going to have a vacation where I'm living my daily routine life.  If I have to see a beach or another environment from my daily one, I'll just watch a movie hah!

Man, when we travel it's like I'm in a movie.  I am going to R&R, be able to thoroughly enjoy myself - as much as possible still being a mom to 2 teens :)  I will seriously never understand why the idea of vacation is not practiced by all.  When you have a break it's because you need to change up your routine and ideally, be able to explore a new environment completely (not drive to sit at a beach for 5 hours).[/quote]

This post bothers me so much. Don't you understand the PP is vacationing and doing it within their means? Maybe they like cooking or cooking saves them enough money to stay an extra day. It's judgmental and entitled to imply there's something wrong with driving and sitting at the beach while cooking your own meals. People are not less valuable because they have less money.

There's no requirement that a vacation is exploring somewhere new or eating out or staying at fancy places. You don't even have to leave town to have a break. I don't even like the beach, so this is not about defending my own choices, I just think the PP is tone deaf and that kind of attitude results in ingratitude discussed recently on another thread.[/quote]

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