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5 Smarter Things to Buy Than A Disney Trip
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216bruce
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1) Disney Stock (done and doing very, very well and depending on your investment timing it may have out-performed the college plan)
2) Vacation Club Points (save money for hotels at Disney in the long run to save cash in the future)
3) An Adventures by Disney Trip to any of the places the writer implied are a 'better' place to go (done three and it's fantastic)
4) a Disney cruise to the Caribbean or Mexico (done a bunch and they are great)
5) pizza (yeah, it's a lot of pizza, but heck, it's pizza!)
See, you can spend money on Disney to get your fix and have it make some financial sense...well, sorta.
Anyway, if you can't afford it...don't go. You shouldn't. There are priorities in reality that you need to meet first. Trips to Disney aren't an entitlement but if your financial commitments are taken care of, then what you do with your money are, and should be, whatever makes you happy.
2) Vacation Club Points (save money for hotels at Disney in the long run to save cash in the future)
3) An Adventures by Disney Trip to any of the places the writer implied are a 'better' place to go (done three and it's fantastic)
4) a Disney cruise to the Caribbean or Mexico (done a bunch and they are great)
5) pizza (yeah, it's a lot of pizza, but heck, it's pizza!)
See, you can spend money on Disney to get your fix and have it make some financial sense...well, sorta.
Anyway, if you can't afford it...don't go. You shouldn't. There are priorities in reality that you need to meet first. Trips to Disney aren't an entitlement but if your financial commitments are taken care of, then what you do with your money are, and should be, whatever makes you happy.
Money is probably the only thing that you could always argue there was a "better" use for, typically after the fact.
Darn! I should have bought DIS before earnings!
Darn! I should have bought this TV after they put it on sale!
Darn! I should have saved more!
Are we serious here? My formula has always been, $17,500 my 401k, $5,500 in IRA, have 24 months emergency fund, no car notes, and perhaps only a mortgage at a low interest rate. I can't tell someone they need to have all of that done before they can "logically" able to take a vacation to Disney.
Even in my situation, there are always "better" uses for money than taking a trip to Disney or any trip for that matter.
You do at some point have to enjoy life. Saving for college, investing, and retirement are important, but if you do nothing in the meantime, what are you doing?
Darn! I should have bought DIS before earnings!
Darn! I should have bought this TV after they put it on sale!
Darn! I should have saved more!
Are we serious here? My formula has always been, $17,500 my 401k, $5,500 in IRA, have 24 months emergency fund, no car notes, and perhaps only a mortgage at a low interest rate. I can't tell someone they need to have all of that done before they can "logically" able to take a vacation to Disney.
Even in my situation, there are always "better" uses for money than taking a trip to Disney or any trip for that matter.
You do at some point have to enjoy life. Saving for college, investing, and retirement are important, but if you do nothing in the meantime, what are you doing?
