“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” is a song by the Rolling Stones – Personal budgeting isn’t a form of pain and as long as we live within our means its as the song says – “you can’t always get what you want, but if you try you might find you get what you need.”

It is “good” for families to holiday together but if this is to qualify as “best,” it should be done without paying for it with money you don’t have. It’s “better” to have a less expensive family holiday in which everyone can be truly relaxed, stress free and happy knowing the holiday was not payed for with borrowed money.