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847badgerfan

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Re: Ohio St fans travel question
« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2025, 12:53:43 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on January 24, 2025, 12:45:42 PM
IOW: Kids ruin lives.
I'm very happy they are no longer on my payroll.
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Re: Ohio St fans travel question
« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2025, 12:56:41 PM »
me too

can afford toys again
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Re: Ohio St fans travel question
« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2025, 01:05:28 PM »
Did they pay their own way to Frisco?
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Re: Ohio St fans travel question
« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2025, 01:10:24 PM »
Hah!!!

I picked up the airline, lodging, and rental car.

They picked up most everything after we got there.

The trip was my idea.  They would have preferred something warmer with a beach.
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Re: Ohio St fans travel question
« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2025, 01:11:46 PM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on January 24, 2025, 12:40:09 PM
Thank you but that really wouldn't help me.  I haven't flown since I think 2018 and honestly might not ever again. 

Part of the issue for me is that I have four kids.  When you do the cost comparison for flying vs driving adding people to the car doesn't really cost you anything* so the more people are traveling the better deal it is to drive.  In my case, as a family of six, it is WAY cheaper to drive anywhere. 


lol.. that's bold.. Since my brain surgery, i really struggle driving over 90 minutes at a time, so I almost don't have a choice but to fly. I drove out to BGSU right before thanksgiving and that wasn't easy and that was the two of us. I'm sound sensitive now, so there's no chance i could drive to florida with our 4 in the back seats.. NO CHANCE..  So i've just had to deal with the reality of flight costs. Family of 6 also takes a lot of hotels out of the mix unless renting a suite or two connecting rooms. So when we went to Disney last spring, it was cheaper renting a 10 bedroom house with a pool. 

Kids definitely add the element of "I have to figure out how to make more money." They definitely eliminate bold spending on areas that would now be considered selfish, like 6k for me and the wife to take in a single football game. Before kids i would have said I can't miss the opportunity to see Michigan in a national championship. Now I say, I can't justify that over taking the family on a vacation or setting that money aside to send them to my high school alma mater, which isn't cheap. 
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Re: Ohio St fans travel question
« Reply #19 on: January 24, 2025, 02:09:18 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on January 24, 2025, 01:10:24 PM
Hah!!!

I picked up the airline, lodging, and rental car.

They picked up most everything after we got there.

The trip was my idea.  They would have preferred something warmer with a beach.
So, still on your payroll.


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Re: Ohio St fans travel question
« Reply #20 on: January 24, 2025, 02:17:32 PM »
Bribing your kids with a nice trip just to hang out with you, isn't the same as them being on the payroll.

And I can DEFINITELY see my future self bribing my kids with a nice trip on occasion... 

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Re: Ohio St fans travel question
« Reply #21 on: January 24, 2025, 02:21:32 PM »
Our youngest, his wife and three kids are coming down in May. No bribe.
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Re: Ohio St fans travel question
« Reply #22 on: January 24, 2025, 02:57:52 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on January 24, 2025, 02:21:32 PM
Our youngest, his wife and three kids are coming down in May. No bribe.

Well, you're obviously a much nicer father, than Fearless and I, are.
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Re: Ohio St fans travel question
« Reply #23 on: January 24, 2025, 03:36:15 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on January 24, 2025, 02:21:32 PM
Our youngest, his wife and three kids are coming down in May. No bribe.
Are you providing lodging and meals?
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Re: Ohio St fans travel question
« Reply #24 on: January 24, 2025, 03:59:15 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on January 24, 2025, 02:17:32 PM
Bribing your kids with a nice trip just to hang out with you, isn't the same as them being on the payroll.

And I can DEFINITELY see my future self bribing my kids with a nice trip on occasion...


Yup, kids are 28 and 30.  Been about 10 years since the last family vacation.   
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Re: Ohio St fans travel question
« Reply #25 on: January 24, 2025, 04:10:15 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on January 24, 2025, 03:36:15 PM
Are you providing lodging and meals?
No. They rented the house next door from snowbirds.
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Re: Ohio St fans travel question
« Reply #26 on: January 24, 2025, 09:07:25 PM »
nice work

and a bit lucky
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Re: Ohio St fans travel question
« Reply #27 on: January 25, 2025, 12:28:30 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on January 24, 2025, 11:58:17 AM
Just a pro tip... If you travel relatively frequently, buying tickets earlier (cheaper) and then canceling is an option, as long as it's an airline that you expect you'll have future travel plans on.

For example, I wouldn't bat an eye to book a speculative trip on American or Southwest, and then if my team loses, cancel. I'll use the refunded flight credits on either airline at some point. ESPECIALLY for Southwest--their flight credits never expire.

I mean, in just the next year I'll expect to have to travel to Purdue and Texas to take my son on college visits, and to Hawaii for my wife's friend's dad's memorial service. If I'd been a fan of a team with a realistic opportunity to make it to the CFP title game, I'd have had high confidence that the flight credits would go to good use.

All that said, it sounds like everything else is STILL ultra expensive... But if you're willing to commit to buying a ticket and staying at a hotel for the CFPCG that your team makes, and you have to cancel, whatever replacement vacation you're take is likely going to be cheaper than that! So the cost of the flight will go to another use.

I use my southwest card for all my expenses, so I spend enough so my companion flies free with me  and generally earn enough points to regularly get my flights free also. 
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