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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a terrible lesson to teach her children. Keeping up with the joneses and materialism and bragging rights is more important than family. [/quote]

How is any of it about bragging rights or materialism? I don’t get it. [/quote]

Luxury travel at the most expensive time of the year isn’t materialism?[/quote]

Not all travel is “luxury”. We know several families who travel over Christmas break instead of giving gifts (to immediate family/ kids). We’ve never done this but have always admired the idea actually. [/quote]

When you travel this time of year, it costs 50-100% more than the normal price, so by definition a luxury. We are big on travel but never travel this week because it would eat up most of our budget for the year. We’d rather take 2-3 week long trips at other times. [/quote]

We (my whole family) love to ski.  Schools don't get a February break.  When, precisely, should we go on a much anticipated ski trip other than the Christmas break?[/quote]

If you were OP SIL+brother who live local to OP mother you would NOT be "allowed " to go. You also would get recriminations on spending part of Christmas Eve and Day with your own local family.  OP lives about 4 hours away from her mother plus there are sibs other than those 2.  I guess OP's DH was hatched and has no parents, sibs, close friends, or relatives.

One would think SIL +brother were the only people available for the entire holiday season to the OP mother.  Sitting home alone while OP lived overseas.  [/quote]

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