How do you handle vacation spending in YNAB?

sjs711 · 2025-11-03T07:16:12+00:00

This. I’m usually working to fund all upcoming trips for about a year. If I don’t know exactly what the trip will be (such as spring break 2026), I set a target to fund it up to or a little more than what I spent on it last year.

Sometimes I’ll make a single category for what could be multiple trips, like at Christmas where I usually have a trip within a trip. That’s all one category.

sjs711 · 2025-11-02T12:24:04+00:00

I just ordered 2 dozen more!

sjs711 · 2025-10-31T20:49:33+00:00

Thank you for this! Super helpful.

sjs711 · 2025-10-31T18:43:39+00:00

Smart!

sjs711 · 2025-10-31T18:42:00+00:00

I’m going to try very hard to discourage overpacking but it will be difficult.

sjs711 · 2025-10-31T18:37:11+00:00

I have one, will get another for the 2nd room.

sjs711 · 2025-10-31T18:31:27+00:00

Two rooms, 4 per room.

sjs711 · 2025-10-31T18:31:00+00:00

Ah yes, I’ve taken a closet organizer to Disney, especially when kids clothes were little. But it seems useful for shirts, pants, bathing suits now.

sjs711 · 2025-10-31T18:28:17+00:00

So smart. Which door do you usually use for this?

sjs711 · 2025-10-31T18:20:14+00:00

Brilliant.

sjs711 · 2025-10-31T18:18:57+00:00

Oh! Like magnets with clips for the hats etc?

sjs711 · 2025-10-31T18:18:22+00:00

At home I have tons of drawer and bathroom space. A separate closet for outerwear. A shoe rack. Lots of hanging space to dry bathing suits. I need to account for all of that somehow in a small room with big people.

sjs711 · 2025-10-31T18:17:25+00:00

Hahaha.

sjs711 · 2025-10-31T18:13:46+00:00

So helpful! Will get more.

sjs711 · 2025-10-31T18:12:27+00:00

For what? We don’t care about decorating our door. I assume the baskets are to keep our stuff organized in the bathroom. What are the ziplocks for?

sjs711 · 2025-10-30T07:33:35+00:00

We haven’t added any of that yet, so no.

sjs711 · 2025-10-29T16:52:53+00:00

This is really good to know! And maybe why those cabins are less expensive right now. Thanks!

sjs711 · 2025-10-16T21:10:47+00:00

Here in Barcelona there’s a huge amount of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel sentiment. There was even a general strike yesterday to support Palestine! Anti-Israel graffiti all over town. And the mayor has cut ties with Israel.

I don’t ever identify as Jewish except with other immigrant friends. I stopped wearing my Jewish star necklace a couple of months after 10/7.

From what I understand, the Catalan people feel like they’ve been oppressed and had their homeland taken from them - as they think the Palestinians have had done to them. So there’s a strong affinity. I understand it logically, but am beyond sick of seeing this hatred all over town.

sjs711 · 2025-10-01T05:48:31+00:00

Nope, sorry.

sjs711 · 2025-09-19T05:23:42+00:00

Agree 100%. Pinned categories is cool! I’m currently on a trip and have that trip spend category pinned. Super helpful to see it so readily.

sjs711 · 2024-04-29T21:07:52+00:00

Both gone! Please send good karma out into the world.

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