to go a bit mad and stop being so sensible with money?

[MWBBE]

I'm normally quite sensible, work hard and save money.

Should I go a bit mad and blow a couple of thousand on two expensive holidays?

I have the money in the bank, so not as though I would be getting into debt or anything. And I would have some savings left after the holidays too. But I just always think maybe I should save for the future (sensible me kicks in...)

Both the holidays I want to book are adventure type holidays so if I am going to do them now is the time before DCs come along.......

Should I live for the moment and throw caution to the wind or be sensible and save my pennies?!

Oh and I did lots of travelling when I was younger so not as though I have never travelled or anything.

Could you just do one? Does sound like you're in a position to spend some money, and tbh I wish i'd 'lived' a bit more before having ds, but then its always good to save, so just to go on one seems a happy compromise?

YANBU... and I say that because I've just done the same thing! Have spent many years being sensible, paying down the mortgage, building up some savings etc and have just gone stark staring nuts and booked an eye-wateringly expensive holiday to the USA for myself and DS. Go for it. :)

Do it! It's sensible to have savings but whatever you do, don't get like my friend who has become obsessed with savings for the sake of them. She has so much money salted away that she genuinely doesn't know what to do with it and the more she saves, the less she's able to touch the savings.

As my grandmother used to say "you can't take it with you".

yanbu, go on the holiday you have saved for.

I'm also intrigued about why you're thinking of two holidays? You could always do just one & leave a healthier amount in savings? X

Do it! For the first time in about 25 years we have decided to blow a windfall on whatever we want. Sometimes life is too damn short!

Only problem now is working out what to do/get. I appear to be out of practise!

Cogito!

Have an amazing time

OP - do one and then wait a bit to save for the other?

The reason that I am thinking of two holidays is just that I have seen two holidays that totally appeal to me. They are both completely different activities so I cannot decide between them!

It feels extravagant booking two holidays, but then you only live once!

Theres no pockets in shrouds!

Go for it, but keep something in your rainy day fund

Book one (toss a coin) and see how the rest of the year pans out. You'll either still have the money to spend later or it will have proved necessary for something else.

And have a good time!