Wednesday Fluff

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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 - 11:49am

Yes, some more in depth than others of course.

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Registered: 04-16-2010
Mon, 09-20-2010 - 11:52am
That's funny, I was just thinking about camping.
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Registered: 03-25-2010
Mon, 09-20-2010 - 11:53am

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No, that is why I have said multiple times, in the same general area.

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Registered: 03-25-2010
Mon, 09-20-2010 - 11:54am

That kind of same, I would love.



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Mon, 09-20-2010 - 11:55am

I don't like to go to the same places every single year either. We are fortunate though that we can go to the beach, which I consider a vacation, several times every summer, and still take our kids on at least one other vacation to a new place they've never been. This year, they went to the beach (same place, same house) four times. They also got to go to Cooperstown and Saratoga Springs in the spring. This fall/winter, we are planning a long weekend trip to Williamsburg and Jamestown since they are learning about those places in social studies. And we are going to NYC just after Christmas - only one of my kids has ever been there.

I like to take my kids on vacation not only to different places every year, but also different types of vacations. Taking my kids only on cruises to tropical destinations and Disney is not my personal idea of giving them different experiences. I do know people who do that, but I'd rather expose them to more of the world around them. I guess I got that travel bug in my when I was young b/c that's what my parents did with us - they took us to Europe twice when I was growing up, as well as all over the U.S.

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Registered: 03-25-2010
Mon, 09-20-2010 - 11:58am

<<A "warm" climate seems to be all clumped together as one place.
Why is that? Maybe lack of experience.>>



Agreed. I think so, that is why there seems to be a contradiction between the statement of

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Registered: 12-01-2009
Mon, 09-20-2010 - 11:59am

While we like to explore with the girl, my soon to be wife and I do make a yearly trip to Provincetown so in that regard we go to the same place every year - but it's a place I pine for when im' not there.

We hope to take the girl to NYC this april, next summer we're using my wife's time share to stay in our own mountains for a week and do the kinds of things we never think to do in our own state, but the year after that we think maybe Niagra Falls (the Canada side) might be fun with the girl child.

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Mon, 09-20-2010 - 12:01pm
I think one of my kids has the travel bug bigtime but I am not sure about the other one yet. He is going on a school trip to Germany and Austria this spring, but I have this deep down suspicion when he grows older he might be the kind who never goes anywhere and tells his wife that "My parents dragged me all over the world when I was a kid. Been there, done that. I want to spend my two weeks off a year puttering in my own garage."
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Registered: 03-25-2010
Mon, 09-20-2010 - 12:07pm

<Again, different cruise ship, different cruise line, different places, a WHOLE different experience.>>



Oh that's right, to the islands again.

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Mon, 09-20-2010 - 12:13pm

es, my husband and I both really enjoy Europe, we are together comfortable in enough European languages that we feel no anxiety about getting around, and we usually get a huge price break by combining a vacation with a work trip, so it is very nice for us to be able to do more or less the same thing every other year or so.

We do want to do something totally different like go to Peru, India, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa, and I want to go to Hawaii sometime, but because of the expense and lack of opportunity thus far, most of our travelling has been in Europe.

Hey, I own our lack of originality!

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