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Originally Posted by LivingAlmostLarge
If a family vacation costs an average of $7k,
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What kind of vacations are you taking? We do a week in Disney World every fall. That costs about $2,000. We also do a week or two somewhere else during the summer. That runs another $2,000/week or less depending on what we do. We also do some short trips during the year, like this past weekend to Lancaster, PA. We are fortunate in that we can afford to take several trips each year, but if we couldn't, we'd be perfectly happy with one $2,000 trip.
I'd say if you're spending $7,000 on vacation, you need to take cheaper vacations and use the difference to fund the education accounts. I think both are important. Vacations need not be expensive. Just taking a week off to spend time at home with your kids and take some day trips is a perfectly good vacation and that can be quite inexpensive.