£3k - new kitchen or holiday?

[Buttery81]

DH and I have squirrelled away about £3k over the course of the last 12 months and were discussing last night how we want to spend it.

DH is really keen to book a fabulous holiday - we haven't been on a "proper" trip away for about four years (bar the odd weekend here and there in the UK).

However, I'd really like to put it towards a new kitchen. Our current kitchen is perfectly functional, but rather dated and tired-looking and hence a bit scruffy in places. I anticipate it will take us another three or four years to save enough money to buy a brand new one.

DH says it's been a long hard year - which is true - and we deserve a "proper" break. But I would honestly prefer to stay home and save for my dream kitchen.

We did get the bathroom done last year, which we both agreed needed replacing as it was in a worse state than the kitchen.

WWYD?

HOLIDAY!!!!!!!!

Neither- pay off your mortgage

Holiday!!!

Life experiences are what life is made for not what 2 by 2 walls you live in. As long as it’s functional.

I always think of my holidays when I feel sad.

The pp who said what kids will remember us so true. Kids are the least judgy with furniture.

Our house is old and needs a fortune spent on it but over the years we have always had the same dilemma and the holidays mainly always won because as a customer once told me the kids won’t grow up and say “do you remember the time we got the double glazing in?”
Have your good holiday now and whatever is left over start 2 savings accounts. One for kitchen on the long finger and one for regular cheap breaks/holidays

Good choice!

Thanks everyone

You can’t get a really fabulous holiday on £3000, so if you can do your kitchen on that and enjoy it every day, I’d chose a lovely new kitchen.

You might not get a luxury holiday for £3000 but you could definitely have a fabulous one!

Also, if you plan a holiday you'll still have time to add to the pot before you actually take it so there will be more than £3000 to spend. And you can factor in what you would have spent at home so that's a bit more.

Have the holiday!

I would go for the kitchen, a holiday is lovely but you can make fond memories for a lot less than 3k... and you'd be surprised how 3k doesn't actually get you that much when you start looking at higher end holidays. A kitchen, though, is somewhere you spend a lot of time and you can appreciate the work for a long time afterwards - a holiday is great, but it's over in two weeks

Do you have other savings besides the £3k? I'm assuming you do but that would probably affect my answer!

Holiday