Vacation is something that, in my opinion, is a waste of money usually. I live in a place where it feels like I am on vacation anyway, like you Aleesh Now, here's the thing that bugs me. I work in collections, and people have to pay monthly on their bills where I come from. Now, I just loooove it when I call one of my debtors with a balance over, say, 10,000.00 on their credit card and hear that they are "on vacation" for a week, sometimes even a month or more!! And they can't pay because they had to go to Maui for two weeks.. sigh..
I can definately see why such people are in their dire financial straits, and do not sympathize with them one bit. Let's spend 3-4K on a vacation when we have 6 debts in collections and our house is getting foreclosed on!! Woo-hoo.. I am not talking about good-managed debt that's in good standing; most people have it, and if you are making your monthly payments and working had, go on vacation as long as you want I guess. But I know where my financial priorities lie.
We will go away for a week.. to Mark's mom's house. We will spend the money we usually spend weekly on our commutes, on gas and food and fun there. I have a paid vacation and will not fall behind financially at all. Mark is self employed but has people who will cover his job for that week. So I am fully prepared to go on vacation.. lavish spending when debts are owed is piontless.