Totally, I watched someone dump four sugars into a single shot yesterday.

Wow, that's smart... turning a problem into a discount.

Leadville in October isn't exactly the arctic. I've slept on a couple of those blue foam pads in cold weather and been fine. A lot of it comes down to your sleeping bag and what you're wearing. People act like you'll get hypothermia if you don't spend two hundred bucks on a pad.

Yeah, that weekly talk is key. Something @loganl22 said made me realize we were missing a step. We'd save for the trip, but then get there and stress over every meal because the "fun money" wasn't separate. Now we break the big goal into piles. Like, the flight and hotel is one bucket. Then we save a second, smaller pile just for spending on the ground, ice cream, a souvenir, whatever. It keeps the vacation feeling like a vacation instead of a new set of money worries.