u/Miserable-Series-438

Been at the same company for 9 years and they surprised me with a bonus that came out to just under $15k after taxes. Was not expecting anything close to that.

My first thought was to put most of it into our brokerage account. We already contribute to retirement and have some money saved, so it felt like a rare chance to make a decent lump sum investment without touching our normal budget.

My wife immediately said we should finally do the Europe trip we’ve talked about for years. Italy for a week, then maybe Austria or Switzerland. We’ve never done a big international trip together and the bonus could pretty much cover the whole thing without us dipping into savings.

Neither of us is mad about it, we just see the money completely differently. To me it feels like free investment money. To her it feels like a chance to finally do something we’ll remember forever.

What would you do?

me and 3 guys rented an Airbnb in Barcelona for a week. we split it 4 ways upfront, i had some money saved on the side so i covered the deposit no big deal. anyway one of them (lets call him M) got into a massive argument with the host on day 3 over some stupid house rules thing and the host ended up kicking us all out early. we got a partial refund for the unused nights.

heres where it gets messy. M thinks we should split the refund equally like we did with the original cost. but me and the other two think he should get less since he literally caused us to leave. we lost money on activities we already booked and one of the guys had to pay to change his flight home.

M is saying im being "financially punitive" and that it was a miscommunication not his fault. the host literally has the whole thing documented tho.

i get hes still my boy but also like we all lost more than he did because of him. AITA?