Reply #241: That's not that bad for an income of 250K. [View All]

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My last vacation was a cruise and it cost $2,500K for the room alone, not including the offshore and on ship expenses. That was for 2 people.

And if you are planning on flying somewhere (depending on the location) you could be looking at almost 1k per ticket round trip (not even first class).

That being said, some of the expenses listed are rather silly and I would have no sympathy for this hypothetical couple. Of course, I don't doubt many like them exist. I know several people with high incomes who are very wasteful. Then there are some who in addition to maxing out their 401k contributions save an additional percentage of their income for the unknown and don't buy 500K houses just because they can afford it and end up spending an additional 10k for it's maintenance.