Trip or Savings?

I’m sure that I have talked about it before on some level, but Josh is the realist in our relationship and I am the dreamer. For some reason it’s always been this way. I have crazy ideas about the different things I want us to do and accomplish and while Josh is on board with them, he tends to have to cool me off and bring me back to Earth when the budget doesn’t match my current desires.

And yes, it can be super frustrating when that happens. In my head he looks like a “fun-suck” and I’m sure in his head I look like the irresponsible one. (And in many cases he would be right…)

Anyways, this morning we came face to face again with having to deal with our differing opinions on things.

We have been planning on taking a road trip and for months we have been setting aside money and planning on how we would make it work. It’s been fun to think of different routes, where we would want to stop and ultimately where we will end up.

Well, I received a few bonuses last month that I want to put 100% towards our trip. My darling husband wants us to put it in savings because we will be moving in 4 months and need to have money to put down on a new place as well as cover moving expenses.

At first I was really frustrated. I just want us to take a trip! We didn’t get an actual honeymoon, although the pre-trip to the Bahamas was amazing, I still want us to have our “just us” trip.

However, I know that I do not want to put us in a bad spot financially, so I agreed it would be wisest to just save it and continue setting money aside for the trip as we have been.

It’s interesting to take a step back from a problem and realize that I am so lucky to have someone in my life who encourages my dreams but keeps me from getting us into money trouble!