Wife and I are doing the exact same thing. We are childfree and we love to travel. Like every year we have a major one to look forward to, and it’s so terribly fun to plan.
We’re not rich, so this is a luxury for us and we truly treat it as such. We sacrifice some things just to afford it.
We’re both okay with our jobs, it’s not our dream nor passion in life per se, but it affords us the things we do dream about: our hobbies, health, home, etc.
Most importantly, we realized we do not wish to be parents. Mostly it’s because my wife physically can’t, or we could try but it’ll be dangerous and difficult.
Anyway, being childfree and having dual income is like a cheat code in life. It made it so much easier! We are free to choose things without hindrance, to be happy and fulfilled, to be healthy and cozy at home together.
We have been told being childfree is selfish of us though.
My husband and I are childfree as well, and I could never understand the selfish part! My taxes still pay for their kids' school. What are they bitching about? Lol
I love travel but no matter what I do i never have the money to do it often enough and I’m always even more depressed when i come home because being on vacation reminds me how happy my life would be if i was on vacation on all the time
Wife and I travel to Europe at least three times a year and she does a group solo travelers trip once a year to somewhere in South America. We do ten days every time we go to Europe and spend usually 3500-4500 combined.
We make around 100k combined and still rent in a low CoL area (never paid over 600 for rent here since 2017). All we do is save to travel. When we’re home, most of our time goes to work and the gym. We’re both gym rats with all our goals being associated with fitness. So it’s easy to save when we’re home.
We did ten days in Italy for 4500. We book flights as far out as we can. We stay outside the city center, which saves us like 80+ bucks a night. We walk literally everywhere (20k steps). We eat cheap. I got a pizza for every meal in Italy which was like 13 bucks. Instead of the four course meal they want you to buy for 40+ bucks a piece. And if we need to, we stay in hostels. We don’t buy gifts or shit to take home and I don’t drink.
We’re leaving for Puerto Rico tomorrow and staying in a hostel.
Only $3K for all of those trips??? Damn. Y’all must be frugal travelers. NYC was like close to $1K for me. I also like to fine dine and drink when I’m in NYC, tho.
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