Less Young People Camping?
It has been a belief of mine for a long time that each generation has it “tougher” than the previous generations. My parents were what I consider to be “middle class.” Mom had her own beauty shop...
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JoshInReno wrote:
If you're so inclined, throw in a $300 a month trailer payment (we don't have a payment on ours) - $3600 a year. Let's say you get 2 weeks of vacation a year - between the trailer payment and the $100 a night in expenses... $5000 a year. Divided by 14 vacation days... $357.14 a night. $5000 buys a week at Disney Land. Or two weeks in Mexico.
It's funny, I was just saying nearly the same thing on the post about raising cost of Disney tickets. But, I was advocating nearly the opposite. I've never been to Disney and don't intend to go due to the cost. I can do so much more with $5000/year with a camper than go to Disney once.
For 1 week in Disney it costs 5k.
For us, 5k will give us a year's worth of camper payments/insurance and gas/camping fees for 11 camping trips. This year we'll get 7 local weekend camping trips, 1 week on Lake Michigan, 1 week in the Smokies, 5 days in DC, and 5 days in the Sand Dunes. People that go to Disney for a week can't see how I can afford to vacation so much, but it's really all costing relatively the same amount.
I do see what you are saying about vacation time too. My friend just started a new job and has only 1 week of vacation time this year.
