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How much do you budget for family vacations?

Posted: May 7, 2010

What does that include and for how many members of the family? Do you take a summer vacation? Winter vacation? Spring break? All of them? ha

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Here's what we do ... - just me

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We allow $1000 for each person and go on a family vacate each year. Every other year, we go with my parents and my sisters and their families - all still allowing $1000 for each person.

My husband is a CPA - EVERYTHING is budgeted!

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As our children are now grown, hubby and I are now faced with the interesting possibility of going on vacation by ourselves and no constraints as to time of year. And with only 2 of us traveling, the total expense is much less. Unfortunately, he and I have very different interests and ideas about what we'd like to do. A vacation for me is a week-long backpacking trip. Those are very cheap! He'd rather be in a hotel or sitting on a beach. I can't sit still or stay in one place for very long. This is perhaps a major reason why we haven't gone on a vacation together in years! This year, however, after watching Ken Burns National Parks film, we came across a great compromise. We are visiting Yosemite National Park and staying in lodges there. He likes scenery and day hiking, but he wants a bed and shower at the end of the day. And we both LOVE history. National parks will suit us perfectly.

So now that we have the idea, the budget discussions started. After 25 years of marriage to an accountant, I have learned to just trust his judgment. He came up with a budget of $1200 per person for a week, then added in air fare, which he researched endlessly. His reasoning was that if the air fare was too expensive, we'd relocate our trip to a park closer to home so that we could drive there. In any case, I'm really looking forward to this trip. I think we finally came up with a good plan. Maybe we'll eventually go to all of the national parks!

What's a vacation? - broke/frugal MT

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I have not seen a vacation in 7 years, unless you call going back for my mom's funeral a vacation.

I haven't taken a vacation in at least 7 years - Typin_away

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No money to be doing extravagant things. The most we have done is spend the day at an amusement park.

At one point during that time I was raising 2 children on 12,000 a year being a single mom. Now we will make about 34,000 this year with a family of 5 and still don't see us having the money for a vacation.

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