A new poll from Yahoo says 51 percent of people it polled are going to skip their vacation this summer. Too much to do at work, too much worry about the future. DON'T DO IT. Vacations are too important to your mental health,your family and your need for recharging.
Maybe you can't afford the two- week trip to Disney, but you can afford to take time off. As a dear friend of mine told me early in my career: "The company would go on if you got hit by a bus, wouldn't it? Then it can go on while you're on vacation."
There are plenty of cheap ways to vacation, including camping (which would never be my choice) and staying at home (which can be done, but it's difficult for us Type A's to actually forget about work or mowing the lawn or any of the hundred other things you could be doing instead of whiling away a day at the beach building sand castles with your kids). TravelingMom.com had these tips for vacationing at home during spring break. They would work just as well for vacationing at home during the summer.
How are you planning to get in a little R&R without breaking into the kids' college fund this summer?