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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Most of you are sounding like my husband, with these figures, lol.

This post is brought to you by our latest disagreement whereby we are going to visit his family in Miami, and of course we have to go during school breaks which are more expensive. It costs $400/ticket to fly to Miami when we are looking but $177/ticket fly to Jacksonville and drive 5 additional hours each way. Guess which one he wants to do?  His revised idea, then, is to rent an RV and drive both ways - but also, I can only take a week off work.  And apparently, I think time is money  :lol:

We could theoretically go a different time of year but it’s also a milestone birthday for his mother.

We actually haven’t done a ton of travel this year because I was “saving” for an international trip next year that is now unlikely to occur (for non-monetary reasons). I put “saving” in quotes here because I didn’t actually put any money aside except in my own mind. That is where I think a budget would help :). But it appears there is a wide range of what travel budget would be acceptable. [/quote]

Where is all your money going?  If you're not socking it away for college, and your DH is too cheap to spend $400/ticket to see his mother for her birthday, where is the money?   What is the point to making $300k if you're going to live like a miser?[/quote]

Well that my question here and what I often say lol.  It’s 400x5 = 2000 on plane tix which I get is annoying but what can we do? That’s what it costs.   We admittedly spend more than we should on food / eating out but that’s not all the money. It goes in the savings / retirement accounts I mentioned and I do plan trips but the recurring theme is how much money I’m spending on the trip.  [/quote]

Fly into Ft. Lauderdale on Southwest and spend a lost less on plane tickets.  But seriously ... set a total max travel budget that you both agree upon.  Both agree upon general locations and time, and then the non-planner needs to stay out of the planner's hair on the details.

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DCUM FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!  THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  You haven't solved ALL of my travel problems, but you solved my immediate one!!!!  I had checked both Miami and Fort Lauderdale to see if prices were any better, but I neglected to check Southwest!!!  I just did and it cost $300/ticket and I just bought them! :)  Thanks again.  [/quote]

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