I don't know if y'all have noticed, but everything in this life is expensive. It's expensive to eat, sleep, read, and bathe, which doesn't even factor in how much it costs to facilitate that for other people. Once you have a partner and kids, expenses double and triple, and suddenly, those last-minute $200 basketball tickets sound like a frivolous waste of pocket change instead of an acceptable deviation from the budget.
Traveling by yourself can be done frugally if you're a 20-something sleeping in hostels throughout Europe, but if you're traveling internationally with a family, the costs balloon quicker than you'd think. Add on-property hotel costs to theme park tickets to the happiest place on earth, and you're looking at a trip that could get into the five figures. A man on Reddit recently went viral for trying to provide a luxury Disney World vacation to his girlfriend and her two children. Instead of appreciating the gift, his girlfriend wanted him to give the same luxury to her ex-husband's family.
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