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$2,500 For Four Nights?
Going against all semblance of personal finance advice, I am going ahead and shelling out over $600 per night for my daughter and me to hang out with my brother in Miami Beach, Florida for less than a week, just four short nights, during my daughter’s spring break next week.
We have reserved a unit in the Fontainebleau Miami Beach nearly identical to the link below on Airbnb. For some reason, the cleaning fee on ours is higher and since we reserved a unit on the top floor, it is slightly more expensive.
I share the above not to gloat at all, but more in shame.
My own home’s mortgage payment is a mere $536 per month now although I have still procrastinated for the past three or so years in refinancing. With interest rates about to be raised multiple times here in 2022, I should really do this soon. But I have not for many reasons.
So the two reasons that I share are that I’m going to blow through the equivalent of almost a mortgage payment per night for the privilege of…
