In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
Staycations......what do you do to make it officially a "vacation" when you don't leave home?
Locust Fork
Member Posts: 31,994 ✭✭✭✭
My photographer let me know that he and his wife are planning a staycation for an upcoming week. They were planning a trip, but they have a grandbaby due soon and they are switching plans. They have a pool and spend a lot of time floating around in it, so I'm sure he will be so tan I'll be jealous after his staycation.
Here at my house, no pool……so I have a hard time imagining what I'd do if I just "stayed home" for a full week. I'd go nuts is what I'd do.
Any of you do this?
LOCUST FORK CURRENT AUCTIONS: https://www.gunbroker.com/All/search?Sort=13&IncludeSellers=618902&PageSize=48 Listings added every Thursday! We do consignments, contact us at mckaygunsales@gmail.com
Comments
I do whatever I feel like.
If hot sit in a chair with cold one and a hose
I'm envious of someone who can " sell" a staycation to their spouse. I'd never have a chance. I just got back from a week in Colorado. Most of my children and spouses and their children. Sometimes chaotic sometimes brutal weather wise, constant driving for hours. I'm smart enough not to want to know the cost but I couldn't wait to get home.
A stay-cation can also mean just doing stuff local and close to home. There is a lot of the GREAT OUTDOORS around here where I live in beautiful northern Michigan!
Staycation .for us working in the garden walking away from the shop and turning the phones down. Something on the Grill. Gave away the downstairs TV (I'm ok with that now) so Grabbing a book and reading the night away.
Wife does not like to travel she is a home body. We have not been out of state in 10 years.
She Works and Payroll has to be done on Monday - Tuesday. So no long weekends.
Her mom fell recently and broke her hip again and is showing sins of mental decline so anonther reason to stay around home.
A day in Santa Fe, Toas, one of the many forests around, a hike in the desert. Or a good movie… Anybody know of one?
" I'd go nuts is what I'd do."
Well, for most of us that's a mighty short trip, Kasey!
Pretty much been on staycation since I retired, traveled for many years and do not miss it at all.
No staycations here. I tried a couple of times and it was boring. If I'm taking time off, I'm going off the grid to someplace that I've never been before.
🇺🇲 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson 🇺🇲
I have a few acres and no neighbors. Traffic, bed bugs, over priced food, not for me. We spent so many nights in hotels close to hospitals. I like to sleep in my own bed and go on my own toilet.
I do plan to make a day trip to see Toolman286 someday.
14 years ago I started a staycation when I retired. I would recommend everyone try it once. And with some kind of acreage you won’t get bored. Lol
Jim, You & your wife are more than welcome. We can even put you up for the night. Don't forget your fishing pole.
Front yard, back yard or livingroom?
Depending on the time of the year. No pants but underwear so to prevent "mushroom stamp" on the cushions. Learned that term on the TV show "Silicon Valley".
Go out to a near-by restaurant that you've never been. Take in some of your local touristy attractions that are close by. Slurge on yourself a little. And at the end of the day when you just can't take anymore, go home and sleep in your own bed.
My wife and I are both retired but when we were working we "got away" when ever we could pull it off, traveling extensively, now however, there's no place we would rather be than home. A couple of things that changed for us are the stupid prices for traveling by air if you want to bring anything other than your tooth brush with you, the elevated cost of anything you can think of, the madness at any given airport, the risk of contracting God knows what, God knows where, traffic, gas prices and road rage if you're driving, stress if you are waiting at the airport to see if your flight is on time, cancelled or over booked, screaming babies in the seat behind you and backpacking luggage across the globe. Most times we get back home completely worn out and needing a vacation.
We have a pool, two motorcycles and a boat so we can just hang out 100% stress free and thousands of dollars ahead of the game. We know who slept in our bed last and it's the most comfortable bed anywhere. We are at an age where vacationing is more misery than pleasure besides, we live in the vacation capital of the US.
There's no place like home.
It's only a "staycation" if you don't do any business work, Kasey.
The answer to this question is determined by where you live. J. and I could be perfectly content staycationing within a 50 mile radius for the remainder of our lives.
It never fails….whenever I say "that drives me crazy"…..Larry says "ER"….no matter where I am in the house I can hear him say it.
Because I work from home, I do not believe I could pull off NOT working for a set of time. I have emails constantly going….the inventory comes in and goes out at such a pace that I am constantly rearanging things and making notes….I've got stacks of paperwork that needs dealt with that is technically other people's jobs to do, but its so much it takes longer than the time alloted to deal with, so if I don't get in there and help out it would never be completed…..I've got to pick up more packing supplies while I'm out getting groceries today. There is always SOMETHING work related going on with me, even while I'm trying to go to sleep I'm running through what I missed doing.
Kasey, I don't think a staycation could work for you, that's the biggest drawback to working for yourself. You should pack up and go to Hawaii or somewhere where you can't work …………………… the only way to decompress.
For my wife and I, a stay-cation is where we (as much as possible) just turn the world off, ignore our chores and just do what we want. I like to game on my PC some but have been so busy this year that I hadn't played even once until late in June. Over the 4 days I had off over the 4th, I skirted all responsibilities and basically gamed all day for 4 days. I am generally more of an occasional gaming type, but not this time.
My wife, she tinkered around with her yard projects since it was very unseasonably cool then.
I never go anywhere, and it's OK.
Permanent staycation.
I’ve been around the world a few times and seen/done a lifetime’s worth. Now, I’m on perpetual stayca.
Spring/Summer: Walk the dog, knock out a crossword, eat a bite, tinker in my shop, eat a bite, walk the dog, go to bed…repeat.
Fall/Winter: Eat a bite, take dog hunting, eat a bite, sip two fingers of scotch, go to bed…repeat.
Way more enjoyable than working.
Staying put would suit me over what us coming up. Wife has us booked for a week at the beach starting on friday.I like it ok just not during July ! .Much rather be headed for the mountains or the lakes. Renting a houseboat at Fontanna lake would be ideal.
I guess I am living a staycation…. Once in a while I take a vacation day from my retirement to go places..🙃