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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents never did this for their adult children, and I don't have any bad feelings about that.

I paid for basically everything for a one week vacation last year with my adult son and his wife, and it was one of the best vacations I've ever had.  I was completely burned out from work and did no bargain shopping for anything related to the trip because I was in such a bad mental place and had no capacity to do anything other than book a package through Costco.  I confess at a few points on the trip during meals out I thought it would have been nice for son to offer to pay, and he never did.  But I had accepted that I was paying for the week and could afford to do so.

Will I ever do it again?  I don't know because I might not always have the money to do it.  But I don't regret doing it while I could.[/quote]

Costco vacations are actually a pretty good deal. I’m glad you had such a great time with your son and DIL. I plan to have enough money to pay for nice vacations for my kids and their families. I would not ask them to do a group vacation if I couldn’t afford to treat them to a nice vacation. I do hope they would pay for a meal or something just to show their appreciation. My college age kid still comes on vacation with us and we pay. My other kid is getting married and I will pay for her and her husband but it gets tricky trying to find a schedule that works with young people’s careers.[/quote]

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