Holidays? My mother was widowed with 5 children - me the youngest at 6 yo.
No car, no money. Never went anywhere until I was working and then nowhere special.
Struggled, always a struggle. I envy those who holidayed early in life.
I don't have any happy childhood memories.
That's sad, stawka.
Looking back, I don't think my parents were wealthy at all, but we weren't really aware of it as we were better off than some others in the area. Or seemed so.
We never went anywhere during school holidays, I wasn't aware it was even a 'thing'. None of my friends went anywhere either.
Sometimes in summer we went down to the beach for the day, that always seemed exciting. Moomba parades. The tivoli (my aunt worked there and we got free tickets).
On the whole my childhood was happy enough. My parents did the best they could, I guess.
Different world today. One of my daughters constantly complains about how tight things are these days, the cost of living etc. I said- yet you did a NZ cruise in Jan and you're off to Cairns for 7 days later this week & you're getting your hair done.
She said-we have to have some holidays! And we got sales on x and y. Different times, for sure!
