Anyone else get "you're going again" when you announce your trip

[Iheartdreaming]

Does anyone else get that "you're going again" when you announce your trip to Disney? How should I handle this?

I love sharing my Disney trip on Facebook, however I'm getting tired of hearing people say we are wasting money, and taking our daughter out of school to much. She will be in first grade in September, and is not suffering academically (how much does a kid really miss in kindergarten anyways).

http://iheartdreaming.com/13-memes-only-disney-fans-will-understand/

 

[StirlingSilver83]

I always get that. We use to go every other year but my older son has ASD and other vacations just don't go well for him. Disney is very accommodating for him and its just a good family trip. Anyways we went into 2014 that was our every other year year, and then we went again this year. When I announced our trip to our family members everyone is my family said the same thing, except for my dad. My dad loves Disney as much as me and would go twice a year if it was't so expensive, lol. Anyways sometimes I feel maybe other people are jealous that they can't go to Disney as frequently or as in my family members think they can tell us how to spend our money. Its really none of their business. I honestly let it go in 1 ear and out the other, If you want to go to Disney and have the money for it then you should go. Don't let what other people say get you down

 

[katyjeka]

After twenty some trips, yep we've heard it more than a few times. My dh answer to their stupid question - if I can spend your money I'll let you spend ours.

 

[GoofyFairie]

We can't afford to travel very often, but when we do we always go to WDW. We also get the AGAIN! comment. I always reply that it isn't any different than going to the beach every year, or going camping every year. It makes us happy. I just don't tell anyone that we are going anymore. After the first time doing that they stopped commenting when they found out we went.

 

[dja14]

I say yep! We like it there!

We don't go often, save up to go, and 'they' could do all that to so I don't feel bad. We have gone a few other places but by the time we nickel and dime things like putt putt and go carts we spend as much or more for less. I have told people that and they always seem surprised but are okay with what they spend their money on so I figure we can spend ours however we want too

 

[Ceryssa]

We'll be taking our second trip in two years this fall. What bothered me more than the "You're going AGAIN? You just got back!" comments were the "Wow it must be nice to have that kind of money" comments. We work hard and don't buy random crap throughout the year so that we can afford to spend our money on what we want--whether it's a vacation, or a car, or whatever. It's really not anyone else's business what we do with our time or money and I try to keep that in mind when responding to comments like those.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

I'd never announce a trip on FB. I just share a pic or two when we get home. Tends to cut down on that drama when the first people hear of the trip is after it's over.

 

[bamacmac]

It really is ridiculous that people think they have the right (or really that they have the nerve), to make any kind of negative comment towards so-called friends about how they choose to vacation! When did it become ok to make comments about how others choose to spend their money? It's really no ones business! Think whatever you want, but you don't have to say it. And it's not questioned when someone goes to the beach every summer or even multiple times throughout the summer. Or if they choose to go to the lake every chance they get or like to go to casinos or sporting events or shopping frequently or fishing or hunting or whatever. To each his own! Can't we just be happy that our friends are getting to go and do the things that they love to do? Whatever that may be?

If they don't like what I post on social media about my adventures, then they are free to unfollow. It would be great if people could just be supportive and happy for you.

I never thought I would be someone who couldn't wait to plan my next trip to WDW. But that is now who I am and I love that I found something to be so passionate about. I'm glad I found such a fun happy place! And there are thousands upon thousands of us on these boards who all feel the same, so we are not the crazy ones here. Haha.

 

[puffkin]

We go 2x a year. We get it all the time. I hardly ever talk about a trip in advance, just post a few pictures and move on. If someone says something snarky, usually I say something along the lines of "you go to the beach/camping/las vegas/cruise every year" comment. Usually I find that people are just jealous.

 

[Mousemommy1]

We have never felt the need to "announce" our Disney trips, but people know we love it and go very often.

I was off with the kids this week and people were like "you took a vacation and didn't go to Disney?!?!?!"

 

[brooke789]

We're going on our 2nd trip next year. We last went in 2013 and honestly I'm expecting these comments with going 3 years apart. We won't make any announcement though, except people at work who ask will be told. Otherwise I'll share pics on facebook during our trip but that'll be all

 

[worm761]

I don't announce my vacation plans to anyone except my adult son and father. And only to them because they live with us and will need to make their vacation plans around ours because we have pets. DS and my Dad travel together. DS stopped traveling with us when he turned 18. He seems to like going with grandpa better. LOL... But even they go to Disney. More often the us! They went in December, again in May, and are going back in September. So yeah, I don't get flack from them. The only person to ever make a comment was my MIL and DH put her right back in her place.

We don't just travel to Disney though. We do try to hit Disney at least once a year but we like to go other places too. There is a great big world out there to explore. Last year it was St. Augustine, FL and Disney. This year is upstate New York visiting family for a few days and Disney in the Fall. Next year I have Atlanta, GA and Disney and hoping for maybe North Carolina to go gem mining. All of "my" income goes towards travel and school expenses.

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

Why do you care?

 

[Minnie-Maniac]

I get this from some of my friends who have never been to WDW. I am 17 years old and have been to WDW 12 times already in my life. My parents are DVC Members and we go just about every year. If friends do say that to me I just say "Yes I Am and I love it". I and my family love Disney so we could go a million times and we'd still be talking about our next trip.

 

[Thing 1]

Yep, hear it all the time. Sometimes its to the effect of "wish we had all the money you have to go to WDW." Reality is we gross less that most of our friends, BUT.....we choose travel over new cars, and clothes and electronics etc. Does not bother me at all. I reply ," Sure am, have you been yet?", or "sure, want to go too." or something to that effect. We do have a lot of "repeat offenders" in our group of friends so that does help a lot!

 

[Peridot83]

This isn't just a Disney thing. Collecting miles and points as my hobby, but I'm a SAHM of 2 and my husband is a police officer so our vacations look much more extravagant than we would otherwise be able to afford. Most of our trips cost less out of pocket than going somewhere local.This year alone, I took my mom and kids out to CA from Philly, and anniversary trip to Cancun, an overnight with the kiddos to NYC just for fun, next week we will be going to San Juan PR and paying my FIL's way to help with the kids, and then another trip to Cali in August. I definitely get that jealous vibe at this point mentioning my travel plans even though many of my friends have double the income, much larger houses than we do. But you know what, my other SAHM friends have the same amount of time I do and I love to help people save money on travel. So if it was important to them they could travel just as much. I personally spent years as a young married couple where even a weekend getaway was out of the budget, and we had to miss friends weddings because the flights were too expensive. I'm not apologizing to anyone, just enjoying making memories with my family

 

[ThistleMae]

I think people just like to share their thoughts, good....bad....or indifferent. I believe sharing your happy thoughts about your vacation is the same as people expressing their thoughts (such as they are). I also believe some people have negative perspectives on life in general. Do the naysayers tend to be negative people, not just making negative comments on your vacation but on other things? Best thing to do, in my opinion, is to observe who these people are and then choose to selectively share with those that can be happy for you.

 

[J.C.&ALI'SMOM]

My reply is, "Yes! I love it!". That should be enough. I don't care what others think of my (frequent) vacation plans.

 

[jsebsirois]

My reply is, "Yes! I love it!". That should be enough. I don't care what others think of my (frequent) vacation plans.

Same for us. The funny thing is that the people usually telling us that we go too often are those who go to Mexico and Cuba everyear... I once told a couple of friends that I don't judge their vacation plans so they should stop judging mine.

 

[Nancyg56]

Not anymore. For a while I got that comment, but it did not take too many "lectures" of everything there is to do while in Disney for those folks to think twice. I figured if someone was rude enough to say that, I would take an hour or two to educate them. Stopped em dead.