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To ask how much you spend on your holiday?

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grassseed · 04/05/2024 18:47

How much do you spend a year on your holiday and how much is this as a percentage of your income?

E.g. do you earn £30,000 as take home pay and spend £1000 a year (3% of your take home pay).

I'm just wondering as I earn an above average amount, but when I'm on holiday I feel like I'm scrimping compared to the other people I see holidaying and I'm wondering if these are the super rich or if people spend a much larger proportion of their take home pay on holidays

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MyOtherCarisAVauxhallZafira · 06/05/2024 21:00

This isn't enough information to answer your question as to why don't people seem to have more disposable income for travel.
Someone might have a household income of 50k but no/little housing costs, no childcare and spend 10k on holidays and save nothing. Someone else might have an income of 100k but spend 24k a year on their mortgage, another 20k on nursery fees and save £1000 a month and feel like they struggle to afford centreparcs

Papyrophile · 06/05/2024 20:50

We don't always go "on holiday". We do two long weekends away in very nice swanky houses with two different groups of friends to catch up and just spend time with them. This year, we may not get away for a holiday at all, simply because there's too much complicated stuff going on, but we'll make up the holiday time next year. We like holidays where we move location every two or three days, and almost never go to the beach. We would go to the beach daily if we lived in a place with a beach, with the dog. We are getting to the stage where we have to count the cost of looking after DDog at home as part of the price of a holiday. She's too old for kennels and set in her ways.

nocoolnamesleft · 06/05/2024 19:28

I probably spend about a month's take home pay on my main (often only) holiday of the year. But I have expensive tastes in holidays, and otherwise not particularly.

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loverofalmonds · 06/05/2024 19:13

ah the saving for the last two years was £8k to bring family… got it!

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i’m confused

i thought you were going on £25k holidays every year

but it would seem one holiday of £12k that you’ve been saving up for for 2 years

Cockapoopoopoo · 06/05/2024 19:12

I have absolutely no idea, surely it depends where we go and how many holidays we have. Literally never thought about it as a percentage. This year we have an expensive one coming up and a few UK based holidays planned, may go somewhere at Xmas too.

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loverofalmonds · 06/05/2024 18:50

It’s completely separate to the £25k we spend on ourselves, so whether I spend £500 or £0 on myself, it would make no difference to the bottom line figures OP asked for.

come again? you said unthread that massively cutting your personal spend to “practically zero” was one of the reasons you were able to spend £25k a year on holidays!

loverofalmonds · 06/05/2024 18:49

yes but it was just when you said you go back to £500 a month post holiday
which wasn’t what you’d said yo thread about getting your spend down to “practically zero” over last two years!!

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loverofalmonds · 06/05/2024 17:44

Tbf you said I’ve cut my personal spend to practically nothing over the last 2 years

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loverofalmonds · 06/05/2024 16:19

BrendaSmall · 05/05/2024 20:32

Maybe I need to get him to more exotic places 🤣🤣

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he can’t be saving or spending a single thing towards…. well anything aside from holiday and keeping roof over head @BrendaSmall

Idtotallybangdreamoftheendlessnotgonnalie · 06/05/2024 16:16

10-12% of £100,000: one week abroad all inc, one week in Devon on a fancy farm, one week in North Wales in a huge house next to a beach with extended family, plus a week camping somewhere tbc.

3WildOnes · 06/05/2024 16:14

loverofalmonds · 06/05/2024 16:07

@3WildOnes with 2 in private education, will it impact holidays or them moving school is VAT added to fees?

We only pay fees for one. One is in state, one we pay fees for and the other has a scholarship & bursary & grandparents pay the remainder.
We won't be keeping ours in private for long once the VAT increase comes in. They will leave as soon as they reach natural exit points. Our youngest won't join the independent sector. We will be having to cut back on holidays as it is with the fees increases that have come this year.

loverofalmonds · 06/05/2024 16:12

£20k on 2 children? i take it prep!

loverofalmonds · 06/05/2024 16:11

oh £10k much more “normal” on £100k take home!

it was the £25k one i was interested in

3WildOnes · 06/05/2024 16:08

@loverofalmonds I don't actually spend 25k on holidays as we are paying over 20k on private school fees. We probably spend around 10k on holidays a year. But if we didn't have school fees or uni costs we would be spending a lot more of our money on holidays!

I think our food budget is where we save a lot. We eat well. I buy an organic fruit and veg box but we don't eat lots of meat- I can definitely make a roast chicken last a few meals.

loverofalmonds · 06/05/2024 16:07

@3WildOnes with 2 in private education, will it impact holidays or them moving school is VAT added to fees?

loverofalmonds · 06/05/2024 16:00

3WildOnes · 06/05/2024 15:57

I know I'm not the poster you were asking but I have a similar household income to the poster and also prefer to spend very little on myself favouring spending on holidays. I get my haircut by a mobile hairdresser every few months who charges £20. I never pay to get my nails done or for any other beauty treatments. I buy pretty much all of my clothes (and the children's) on vinted. If I buy myself makeup or perfume it would be with a voucher that I was given as a birthday or Christmas presents or from work.

Our food shop for 5 is £500pm which seems to be lower than lots of others I see on here.

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heavens i am a single parent of 2 and my food budget is higher than that!

i spend about £8k, maybe closer to £9k on hols and so i’m curious more about what you get for £25k

3WildOnes · 06/05/2024 15:57

loverofalmonds · 06/05/2024 15:33

@UnPushyParents when you say you spend “zero” on yourself… does your DH do the same?

and you never want to get you hair done? or buy a new item of clothing or some make up?

I know I'm not the poster you were asking but I have a similar household income to the poster and also prefer to spend very little on myself favouring spending on holidays. I get my haircut by a mobile hairdresser every few months who charges £20. I never pay to get my nails done or for any other beauty treatments. I buy pretty much all of my clothes (and the children's) on vinted. If I buy myself makeup or perfume it would be with a voucher that I was given as a birthday or Christmas presents or from work.

Our food shop for 5 is £500pm which seems to be lower than lots of others I see on here.