“I envied my friends because they got to go to all these cool places on vacation. Well, fast-forward to when my brother and I went to college. We looked at the costs and total expenses needed, and Dad told us, ‘I just need to know how much vacation time to cash out for it.’ Then we realized why we never took big vacations: Dad wanted to get his PTO paid out so we didn’t have student loans. How many parents can say they sacrificed like that for their kids? Never taking vacations to only cash it out for their kids’ college? Yeah, I took that for granted. And I feel like an ass now because of it.”
