Customers seem suspicious to front desk employee as he’s trying to pay $100 for a room but with 7 different credit cards, charging a little in everyone: ‘Why are you paying for a hotel if you don’t even have an extra $100?’ – FAIL Blog

Maybe you shouldn’t be staying at a hotel if you can’t even charge $30 onto your credit card.

Finances and vacations don’t usually go hand in hand. Is expected to spend a lot of money when going on a trip, especially if you aren’t purposely looking for deals and combos. If you just get to the city you’re visiting and decide to roll over to a hotel to check a room, then you are probably going to spend far more money than you would have if you reserved a couple of weeks prior. Like the person entering the hotel in the story below did.  

It’s also common to see people getting in debt or risking their financial situation only to go on a big vacation. As if it were THAT important. I completely get the idea of having a nice time away from home, especially when you have a family. But maybe having to tie your seat belt for a year just to pay off all the credit card debt you accumulated in a week of holiday is not the smartest choice. This can be caused by two things. Firstly, people trying to prove they have more money than they actually do, so they put themselves through struggles to pay for something that isn’t in their budget. Or secondly, people who have no idea how to manage their finances or how debt even works. 

As a matter of fact, these situations have become so common that I started to see people demanding some kind of financial education in high school, to prevent teens from entering debt young and so they can learn how to actually manage a household monetarily. I think that this premise would be really useful, as most kids don’t learn about this topic till they have already committed all the mistakes, and to avoid financially irresponsible parents from passing their bad habits on to their children. Maybe all of us could benefit from a finance class to stop the overspending and learn not only to save but also how to invest.