We only go on a for real vacation every other year. Mostly because it is a big cost for a family of 6 on a budget and also because I don’t think I’d ever be able to talk my husband into it every year. One reason I lobby for a vacation at least every other year is because. This momma needs a real vacation. You moms know, that being at home for a week is never going to be relaxing. We always have the need to clean, cook, do laundry, iron (oh I loathe ironing), use the time to take care of things we’ve been meaning to take care of like maybe making that appointment we’ve been putting off. I told my husband, when we go on vacation and stay at a hotel or in a resort someone else is doing the cleaning, someone else is making the beds, we go out to eat more (so less cooking for me). Sure I’m still picking up after the kids, yes I’m still using the hotel laundry machine, but I’m expected to do less when we’re on vacation.
My hubby told me if I could find a place for us to stay under a certain amount then we could go out to eat every night. That was a challenge I accepted gladly. Not only did a find a nice place with prime location but I found several. I showed him. He liked all of them. So he says yep we stay somewhere like that we can go out to eat every night we’re there. So, now I don’t have to cook, Yay!
Then the ironing thing. I try not to take things with us that need ironed but I usually take at least one nice outfit with us in case we need it for a particular restaurant or something. And there’s always at least a couple of those things that need ironed. This year I’m taking Downy Wrinkle Releaser Plus travel size with us.
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Oh and my beach travel tip. If you want to be close to the beach but don’t want to spend an arm and a leg, try less commercial beaches. I initially was searching Myrtle Beach, Rehoboth, Outer Banks, etc. I was starting to get frustrated until I started doing broad searches like “North Carolina beaches” “South Carolina Beaches” Places like Topsail Island, Wrightsville beach, and Isle of Palms were about half the cost of the more commercial beaches for the same time frame. The one place I found even has several ocean front rooms still available and it was one of the most affordable of all of them!
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