Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : My kids are 8 and 5 and at a really great age for going places and enjoying family experiences. We love our zoo/museum/science center pass, last year we took some weekend trips to places like Oklahoma City's science museum, St. Louis for their city museum, KC for great wolf lodge.

We've talked about going to Disney World, they hear it's the best thing in the universe and there's no comparison. We live in the smack-dab middle of the country so it'd mean a flight. Then the hotels are expensive, the park passes are expensive, I hear the lines are horrible and the food is crazy, and the cost is absolutely blowing me away. We have had so much fun touring the midwest for well under $1000 a trip and that's when we seriously splurge! The idea of saving up $5-10K for a disney vacation means we'd have to go without a lot this year. No spring break trip or weekend getaways, hell we'd be going without clothes and restaurants, there is just not a ton of room in our budget.

I'm starting to drop hints that there are other better things to do with money and we should never ever go. Just trying to talk them all out of it. There are better places, more responsible ways to spend money, there's starving kids in X, whatever excuse you want.

I got to go as a kid. It was fun but not life-changing. My partner's family didn't have money to go anywhere, so he's never been in his life. He'd like us to make it happen, but he's not the budget organizer in our family.

Did you go, was it your most amazing growing up experience? Is there anything else you'd have had your parents do with $10,000?  What was your favorite trip with your parents? Or if you are a parent, been your favorite trip as a family?

Will I Be The Asshole for shutting the door on this idea?