The art of spending money

artyboy

Youth Hostels - that's a bit posh. What's wrong with a good old park bench...

(any more bids?)

zagfles

artyboy said:

Youth Hostels - that's a bit posh. What's wrong with a good old park bench...

(any more bids?)

Park bench??? Luxury. When I were a lad I'd have killed for a park bench. I slept in the sewer...

Ciprico

Surprised no one's mentioned camping... Though personally without young kids around it seems unnecessary crude. We did have an old campervan but always felt inferior to those in modern ones and mobile homes.

They called it "ski" -ing

..... Spending Kids Inheritance 

Pat38493

We have toyed on and off with the idea of buying a motor home for a few years when we start retirement - we go back and forth on whether it would be good or not.  We hired one a couple of times and it was fun, but the big question is whether you would use it enough to justify actually owning one.

zagfles

Pat38493 said:

We have toyed on and off with the idea of buying a motor home for a few years when we start retirement - we go back and forth on whether it would be good or not.  We hired one a couple of times and it was fun, but the big question is whether you would use it enough to justify actually owning one.

Us too, we decided it was a bit limiting in the sort of holidays you can do - they're great if you want to pitch up at a campsite for a fortnight in the UK or Western Europe, or travel around somewhere with decent roads, but the most interesting places tend to have narrow roads not suitable for anything bigger than a car, plus there's loads of places we want to go where driving there would be impractical and hotels are cheap eg Eastern Europe, SE Asia etc. Plus the price of motorhomes has skyrocketted since COVID.

Albermarle

Sea_Shell said:

I get enough stick on my "Nuts" thread as it is, without using YHs 😉

At least in the YH , you could put the heating on 

Sea_Shell

Albermarle said:

Sea_Shell said:

I get enough stick on my "Nuts" thread as it is, without using YHs 😉

At least in the YH , you could put the heating on 

What??   I don't follow.

sheslookinhot

Pat38493 said:

We have toyed on and off with the idea of buying a motor home for a few years when we start retirement - we go back and forth on whether it would be good or not.  We hired one a couple of times and it was fun, but the big question is whether you would use it enough to justify actually owning one.

Buying a Campervan was always something I  wanted to do. However, the stratospherical  prices have put me off buying at the moment.

Albermarle

Sea_Shell said:

Albermarle said:

Sea_Shell said:

I get enough stick on my "Nuts" thread as it is, without using YHs 😉

At least in the YH , you could put the heating on 

What??   I don't follow.

I understood from other posts that the heating is only on for very limited hours day at Sea Shell Towers, so was trying to make a joke about that....

Stubod

..another one that fancied a motorhome but have been put off by the silly prices, and the more I consider it I think I would prefer going back to caravanning as this gives greater flexibility, (and you could buy a good car and a caravan for the price of a motorhome), but I accept it's each to their own.....