Do you budget for vacation?
So I was just curious if any of you ever budget for vacation? FT'ers and retired need not apply. I have not been able to go on vacation in 3 years (due to financial and other constraints) and so...
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We don't budget, but I do run a report in Quicken after our trips.
We break the expenses down by:
Dining - the rare times we go to a restaurant
Fuel - always the very biggest expense
Fun - entrance fees, bus and boat tours - could be called entertainment
Lodging - campground costs
Purchases - something we wouldn't normally buy - like a souvenir
Transportation - tolls, subways, Uber - stuff like that
We don't include groceries, because we would be buying them whether we're at home or not.
Strangely our trips average out to about $1500 each. Some are longer time, but the gas prices are lower - like last year we went for over a month down south to Mississippi. Some are shorter, but gas prices are high - like in 2010 we went on a 2 week trip to NYC and the gas prices were terrible. Both were $1500.
We break the expenses down by:
Dining - the rare times we go to a restaurant
Fuel - always the very biggest expense
Fun - entrance fees, bus and boat tours - could be called entertainment
Lodging - campground costs
Purchases - something we wouldn't normally buy - like a souvenir
Transportation - tolls, subways, Uber - stuff like that
We don't include groceries, because we would be buying them whether we're at home or not.
Strangely our trips average out to about $1500 each. Some are longer time, but the gas prices are lower - like last year we went for over a month down south to Mississippi. Some are shorter, but gas prices are high - like in 2010 we went on a 2 week trip to NYC and the gas prices were terrible. Both were $1500.
