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[quote=Anonymous][twitter][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No fed I know, including me, has enough money to take a vacation when we don't know when we will be paid. It's staycation all the way.

OP, you must have some family money, or be a really old DC area fed who is still working, to be able to afford a second house in the mountains. [/quote]

Some feds save and don't live paycheck to paycheck so yeah, a vacation is possible.[/quote]

Really, you months of living expenses in liquid cash AND own a vacation home?? Get real. Feds don’t know when they will be paid, this could easily go into 2-3 months of now pay. Our mortgage is $3k, so just to keep roof on our head we will need $10k liquid.

Who in their right mind would drop $1ks more for a vacation that could be cancelled at any moment?

So I know OP is some weird case, like an old dude who bought homes when they were cheap or family money. [/quote]

NP here. We aren’t planning a vacation (& don’t have a vacation home), but we are a single income family (GS-15) with kids and have many, many  months of living expenses socked away, so yes— we could easily take a trip if we wanted, even with no paycheck for a while… we are frugal in general & our trips are not extravagant to begin with. No family money. I don’t know why people act like this is so hard to believe?[/quote]

How much is your housing expense and where do you live? That’s what drive most people’s ability to save and defines the size of emergency fund. [/quote]

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