I need a vacation so desperately. However, unlike everyone else, I don't get to take my vacation during the summer because of the nature of my job. You see, I am a Director for a college preparatory program that prepares high school students for higher education. During the summer component of the program, the students have a six week residential program which allows them to stay on campus and have the simulated college experience. My summers, for the last three years, have been spent dealing with teenagers (oh, the joy...) and working extended hours. The weeks leading up to the program are grueling, with all of the last minute issues that must be addressed, no matter how much planning is done in advance to avoid them.
Despite my exhaustion and a chance for a short escape before the start of my summer program, I turned down a weekend trip with the girls to Atlanta. I really could have used the get-a-way, but I decided to hold strong to my 'Go Green' Challenge. I will reward myself really handsomely at the end of the summer.
In regards to the spending plan, I am well within my $40 a week. During the summer, my program pays for all staff and students to eat 3 meals a day in the cafeteria. Therefore, my daily frivolous spending has been eliminated.
All-in-all, I'm still on track to meet my challenge throughout the month of June.
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I have two trips planned this summer already and that one was last on the list and so the joy of being responsible is prioritizing.
I am going to a family reunion in July and the Joyce Meyer womans conference in September, Im staying strong for debt freedom!!!
I am so proud of you!!!
The hard part about deprivation is that if you pull the strings too tight they will break and you go on a binge that is worse than if you loosened the strings a bit.
This is a lesson I often have to remind myself.
Congratulations on your resolve and your successful determination to keep to your goal.
You know, for many years the people I worked with all took expensive vacations all the time, and I never did... I generally took my vacations at home with the phone off the hook. I guess I just figured I'd rather spend my energy on building a life that I didn't feel like I wanted to get away from. So now they're all still working their rear ends off and I feel like I'm on vacation every day!