Just recently, despite my better judgement, I purchased a Disney vacation for my family* and if this doesn’t buy their unconditional love, I don’t know what will. Disney is EXPENSIVE. And I get it, you can’t put a price tag on these kind of family memories blah blah blah – but you can actually, you can put a big price tag on it.

I don’t mean to sound jaded but Holy Moly I have spent the last week or so ruminating about all of the other things I could have used this money for instead. Here is a list I compiled on my way in to work this morning:

• Lasik eye surgery for me and a frind
• A quarter of my remaining student loan debt
• A top of the line John Deere riding lawn mower
• 6 nights in Paris (France, not Epcot)
• slightly used pair of jet skis
• A Hot Tub
• A 3D Printer
• A baby grand piano
• 80″ Plasma TV
• New vinyl replacement windows that will keep my house warm
• A lifetime subscription to the wine of the month club (for me and a friend)
• Three years of monthly maid service
• Full spelunking equipment
• A Camel
• A Vespa
• 1/2  years tuition at the cheapest public university in  PA

Like I said, I’m not jaded – I love my family and now they have no excuse but to love me back.

*This is a surprise, no one tell Lucy