To ask what you think your twenties are for?

[tequilasunrises]

Just curious. DH and I are in our twenties, we’ve managed to clamber onto the property ladder with a horrifically expensive two bed terrace but naturally now have a rather large mortgage.

Both our families our keen travellers and big holidays every year (India, Thailand, Mexico, Maldives, Safari, Bali, Florida etc etc) are just the done thing. We’ve been on a few big ones the last couple of years and I’ve loved it.

Now I’m starting to think of everything in terms of the mortgage! Eg spending 2k on a holiday vs overpaying 2k on the mortgage, the mortgage seems sensible to me!

Family thinks we should be making the most of our frivolous twenties and travelling here there and everywhere.

So I’m asking MNers, what do YOU think your twenties are for?

For me, very similar to you. I met now DH at 20, and spent 6 years of my 20s travelling, living abroad & studying. Late twenties were establishing career.

We are now married & just bought a house. Kids are next on our agenda, but only because we had that time travelling & taking risky work contracts that paid off. We’re in/going into our thirties in quite an established place, fully expecting kids to wipe most of our savings over the next ten years!