To think a holiday is more important than sky

[Moomoomango]

Chatting to hubby earlier - I was saying I'd love to save up a bit each month so in a few years we can take the children abroad. We have very little excess money but I'd love to give them an experience and some memories. we holiday in the uk every year (center parcs out of term) but would love my children to experience a holiday abroad in a few years. Hubs is in a strop because he would rather upgrade to sky I q or something - when it comes out - we already fork out for a full sky package for the football and that is enough let alone adding more on the bill. Aibu?

On the full package of Sky myself and the Sky Q package saves me money per month.

Ring them if on the full package move to Q might save you money.

Save the money and divide between the thins you love as a family. Centre Parks has a place in Belgium, it is (so I am told) cheaper than the UK.
(I would hate to spend money to access more - or even some - football! But then my hubby isn't into it and neither am I, but he does spend a few hundred a year on his hobby, running, so I guess it's all give and take!)

Personally, I think yanbu. We've never had sky, always managed with freeview and netflix - but if your DH is a football fan (poor you ) then I can see why he's stroppy about it.

We went to Center Parcs for 400 for 3 double rooms for 5 days (6 of us 4 adults 2 dc). If you cook in it is just that and the petrol and only 1.5 hour drive away. I doubt you could find a cheapy to spain when the weather is decent for that all in, and i certainly wouldn't travel for an hour to an airport then spend 2 hours hanging about and then have 2-5hours on a plane, then have an hour transfer at the other end for 5 days in spain off season to sit on a freezing beach then do it all again reversed to come home.

Agree with you OP. Sky is less important for the whole family but it seems it is more important to your DH as an individual. What would the dc get from Sky? Would it just be more sport for DH?

God yes, holidays before Sky, definitely.

YANBU
Id drop Sky in a heartbeat and start saving each month now for next summer. I just love how some
men plead poverty until it comes to things that are important to them.

For me holidays will come first but I wouldn't expect everyone to have the same priorities as me.

Sounds like you need to come up with a compromise that works for you both - scale back the sky package a bit and give this years centre parks a miss to allow you to both save for a holiday next year?

My Dh loves football big time, so sky is a must, but not the full package. You can reduce the package significantly and still have football.
Why shouldn't your Dh have something nice.

Centre parcs could easily be exchanged for abroad. I got a corking deal all inclusive to Ibiza for 4 of us, that cost WAY less than a week low season at centre parcs!

Blimey. Hark at all the replies. Look at her apparently lazy parenting husband who sits on the sofa all day, doing no parenting.
Sod selfish him. He deserves nothing. All kids-kids-kids, they should have everything. Adults deserve nothing.

Ha Ha, I'd have neither tbh.
I do like mini breaks but don't fancy abroad and Sky just encourages you to part with lots of money for nothing.
It's each to their own though, whatever you want really.

Obs - Do you really get an all inclusive week for 4 for WAY less than 250? Including all costs? Airports and everything? Where from?

I don't think I'd be able to cope without sky plus......

Centre Parcs in school holidays is ridiculously expensive. I'd expect abroad to be cheaper, depending on where you go.

We paid £900 for four of us, four nights in centre parks. I'm fairly sure we couldn't go anywhere abroad cheaper.

I thought OP meant they go to CP during term time.

Holiday would always come before Sky, but then, like wasonthelist I'd never, ever pay for Sky.

I agree with you but can't get dh to give up Sky!

There is some pretty good research that what makes us happy is experiences, new and out of the ordinary. Things like 'stuff' and TV packages, become 'normal' very quickly and do not contribute extra to your happiness. Whereas holidays, experiences, out of the ususal stuff does contribute. www.fastcoexist.com/3043858/world-changing-ideas/the-science-of-why-you-should-spend-your-money-on-experiences-not-thing So, in closing, you are right. But not about Center Parcs.

Holiday before Sky, I agree.

We've had Sky Q for a while and even though we get it for free I don't think it really adds anything.

I can't afford Centre Parcs though, but we have a holiday abroad each year.

that's how i feel. Centre parcs nor butlins is cheap.

Sky is absolute crap. We got rid of it and don't miss it at all. Tell him to go down the pub when there's a game on. Holidays are more important.

Personally I would always put things we need all use everyday above a family holiday abroad. There's nothing wrong with enjoying the creature comforts at home and holiday-img in the uk. Memories don't just get made from holidays abroad. We rarely holiday abroad. We prefer to spend the money on our house, clothes, and weekends. They stuff that happens all the time not the 2 weeks a year.

I looked at centre parcs for a week in the school holidays and it was nearly 2k. Our All inclusive holiday in Spain is less than that for August.

I did that with my old BF before, he spent the weekends in the pub coming back pissed spending more on drink then the sky ever cost.