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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We made 300k and never went on vacation for 10k or bought anything expensive like a boat. You don't make enough for a boat and ongoing expenses. Take a modest vacation. There is no need to upgrade your car.[/quote]

Airfare alone for a family of 4 is going to be 4k.  Then let's say you spend 10 days somewhere accessible and easy in Europe.  On 6k as a family of 4 for hotels, food, etc.  That's not exactly living in the lap of luxury or being overly extravagant!![/quote]

I think 10 days in Europe is extravagant! Or 10 days anywhere. I have never taken a 10-day vacation in my life.[/quote]

Seriously?  Why not?  Honest question.  Do you have no PTO or vacation time?  A week is never long enough anywhere besides the beach.  By the time you've settled in to wherever you're visiting, it's time to pack up. [/quote]

I have vacation. I never use all of it. I do not even do 7 days anywhere. I use my vacation to visit family. Occasionally 3 nights at the beach with kids. 10 days is extravagant. Many many people do not even take annual weeklong vacations. You live in a DC bubble. [/quote]

this is so so sad- maybe lots of people live this way but it isn't a happy or satisfied way to live. I know people who cant take vacations- they do domestic or retail labor but they don't want to live that way-its part of their hard lot in life and they think that they have a hard lot in life and these people live in developing countries or have moved here from developing countries and are struggling to establish themselves. I don't think anyone willingly never takes a week long vacation in a year.  I mean, ppl cant afford fancy vacations and take camping trip or something..

Anyhow- Op, stash the extra cash away for a whole year and then reevaluate.  [/quote]

Most people in the United States can't afford annual family weeklong vacations. Almost no one took them growing up. You live in a coastal bubble that is completely different from average college-educated people.

I make near 200k divorced and single and think a weeklong vacation is an incredibly stupid waste of money. A long weekend, okay? But a week? No. Maybe once a decade. The last vacation I went on like that was in 2009. It was not worth the money.[/quote]

This is really depressing.  I can't imagine not having taken a week away with my family in 13 years when I could afford it, and had the vacation time to do so to boot.  So sad[/quote]
It’s horrifying to me.  I can’t imagine the lack of interest in seeing more of the world.  When I was young, my family had very little in the way of savings, but we still took a few camping/fishing trips every year, which we all loved. We were comfortably MC by my HS years and upgraded to driving vacations to national parks or other sight seeing destinations and would stay at Holiday Inns along the way—also super fun. I think it’s quite worrying that OP’s family has never taken a family vacation. I hope they don’t end up like the PP. [/quote]

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