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The Perplexing Case of an extra $137
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<p>[QUOTE="AlaskanTraveler, post: 809011, member: 2467"]</p><p>Hi Matt, I always appreciate your post. Felt like this one wandered a little. Your 'travel hacking' skills saved you an additional $137 from what you were willing to spend on a vacation. Put the $137 in your IRA and you are $137 richer and closer to financial independence. Enjoy the vacation you planned. As for the 25k AA miles and $350/ person. Burn the AA miles, you can always get more. As for the $350/person to upgrade. I guess it depends on how much you value the Biz class experience over econ. I generally break it down by hours flown. Value your time by the hour. If you value your time at $30/hr. If it is 12 hours of flying time per person. Then paying $350 might be worth it to me. At the same time for 2 people that is $700 in cash. So you are trading say 12 hrs of general misery in econ or 12 hours of pleasant luxury in biz for $700. Personally if my wife and I were in biz and someone walked up and said I'll give you $700 in cash right now to trade seats, I'd probably take the cash.</p><p></p><p>When you say travel is personal, I think you mean it depends on how much someone makes and how much they value the experience. For me I'm really not willing to every pay more than $100/night to sleep in a hotel any hotel. I don't remember who said it, but always spend cash last.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="AlaskanTraveler, post: 809011, member: 2467"] Hi Matt, I always appreciate your post. Felt like this one wandered a little. Your 'travel hacking' skills saved you an additional $137 from what you were willing to spend on a vacation. Put the $137 in your IRA and you are $137 richer and closer to financial independence. Enjoy the vacation you planned. As for the 25k AA miles and $350/ person. Burn the AA miles, you can always get more. As for the $350/person to upgrade. I guess it depends on how much you value the Biz class experience over econ. I generally break it down by hours flown. Value your time by the hour. If you value your time at $30/hr. If it is 12 hours of flying time per person. Then paying $350 might be worth it to me. At the same time for 2 people that is $700 in cash. So you are trading say 12 hrs of general misery in econ or 12 hours of pleasant luxury in biz for $700. Personally if my wife and I were in biz and someone walked up and said I'll give you $700 in cash right now to trade seats, I'd probably take the cash. When you say travel is personal, I think you mean it depends on how much someone makes and how much they value the experience. For me I'm really not willing to every pay more than $100/night to sleep in a hotel any hotel. I don't remember who said it, but always spend cash last. [/QUOTE]
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