Wednesday Fluff

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Registered: 02-23-2010
Wednesday Fluff
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Wed, 09-15-2010 - 10:00am

I think we need a little fluff :)

1. Have you/Will you decorate(d) for the fall?

2. Have you started any Holiday shopping yet?

3. What is one food (or drink) that you look forward to when the weather gets cooler?

Bonus (it was a discussion at work yesterday and wondered others opinions):
4. If you were able to have an inheritance for your children (or maybe you have already experienced this with your own family), and you were able to live comfortably and was not relying on that money to survive, would you rather spend the money while you are alive and watch your children enjoy the money now or would you rather have it given to them when you died?






Edited 9/15/2010 10:24 am ET by harvardgrad

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Registered: 03-25-2010
Mon, 09-20-2010 - 11:34am

Does that $900 include the tips or was it just a food comparsion?



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Registered: 03-25-2010
Mon, 09-20-2010 - 11:35am

Agreed.

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Registered: 02-23-2010
Mon, 09-20-2010 - 11:37am
Again, each vacation can be the same or can be totally different by the way YOU (in general) make it to be. All of our vacations, even if they are to an different island (not sure how that is the same but whatever, as you say) have been different.
I would not go away to all the same places every.single.year. That would bore me and I wouldn't feel I am giving my kids a different experiences.
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Registered: 05-10-2009
Mon, 09-20-2010 - 11:37am
I'm wondering how this works for the tens of thousands of people who camp for vacation every year.
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Registered: 02-23-2010
Mon, 09-20-2010 - 11:37am
To each their own.
iVillage Member
Registered: 02-23-2010
Mon, 09-20-2010 - 11:40am
They are different places!! I am not sure how to explain it any clearer.
What places did you go to on your 2 cruises?
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Registered: 02-23-2010
Mon, 09-20-2010 - 11:42am
Dodge from what?
I don't remember as a kid and on our honeymoon we stayed at the Caribbean Beach Resort and last year Pop Century.
I liked them both (liked the ones as a kid but I was a kid, don't remember the names-I am sure my mom remembers-lol!! and it was all just going to Disney then, not the hotel-lol!!).
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Registered: 02-23-2010
Mon, 09-20-2010 - 11:42am
No, tips are not included anymore.
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Registered: 03-27-2000
Mon, 09-20-2010 - 11:44am
For me it would be that we don't take the kind of vacations that even offer meal plans. We don't go on packaged trips. I'm not against them, but they just aren't the kind of vacations that we have taken or plan to take with our kids. And yes, we don't like to eat out for every meal either.
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Registered: 01-08-2009
Mon, 09-20-2010 - 11:47am
This is kind of funny because I have a kid in that difficult 12-15 year range where summers are difficult because he is too old for, and bored with, local camp options, but too young to be left alone all day or have a real job. So he has to go to camps every year for at least half the summer. He always chooses two weeks at Space or Aviation Camps, two weeks at orchestra camp, and one week at baseball camp. He will go to different orchestra camps, one year it was Michigan, two years it was Kansas and one year Massachusetts, and of course he has different teachers and meets different kids, but it is still orchestra camp. Same with Space/Aviation and baseball camps. This year he wanted to do something different so he chose a Francophone Historical Re-enactment Immersion Experience where they lived like 18th century French fur trappers, canoeing around the boundary waters of Minnesota/Canada, digging their own latrines, and eating dried moose and wild rice for dinner.....that was DIFFERENT. Going to another orchestra camp at a different college in a different state would have been slightly different from what he's done before, but not a completely new experience.

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