Me and my friend want to go interrailing next year and want to do Berlin, krakow, vienna, budapest (and maybe lake bled) (not in this order) Is there any other must see places that we could add onto this? Plus any hostel recs?
For context me (17F) and my best friend (also 17F) are planning to go interrailing next summer after we finish high-school. This is a very common thing in my country and it is often what gets people through the final exams.
The only issue is money.
I've had a part time job since I was 15. I work every second weekend during the school year and significantly more during the summer. My job pays really well and I am naturally a saver, so I rarely buy things I don't need or even things that I kind of want. So naturally, I have more than enough to pay for a trip like this.
My friend, on the other hand is unemployed and has never had a job (She is trying though) Recently, my friend and I both got offered a job for about 3 weeks during the summer, and we'll each make between 300 and 550 euros each. This is my friends only employment. When I suggested that "we" should save this money for our holiday, she started listing some things that she planned on using some of the money on (eg a piercing or two, some stuff in Primark etc). However I know that my friend likes to buy things, often small but they add up.
Normally, I wouldn't mind what people spend their money on, apart from the fact that she has talked about how she doesn't know how she's going to pay for interrailing without a job, and when I suggest saving her birthday or Christmas money or asking for money instead of gifts, she shot it down because she wanted to get random material things, because she likes getting things
Im worried that when it comes time to actually book the trip later this year, she wont have enough saved and the trip just wont happen. I want to go with her and I know she does actually want to go. Honestly I'll be really disappointed and demotivated if the trip fell through only because she kept spending money on smaller things.
I don't expect her to save exactly the way I do and I appreciate the fact that I have a stable job, which is why I feel like such an asshole for thinking she should try a lot harder to save and ask for money for Christmas and her birthday, when I don't have to.
I know that she really does want to go interrailing (and that she isn't actively trying to get out of it, trust) I want to tell her how I feel but I worry she will take it as if im talking down on her. She is aware that she has a spending habit as I make fun of it a lot as a joke.
TL;DR My best friend and I (both 17F) want to go interrailing after graduation. I’ve worked and saved money for years, while she only recently got a short summer job. Even though she says she doesn’t know how she’ll afford the trip, she plans to spend most of her earnings on clothes, piercings, etc. I’m worried she won’t have enough saved when it’s time to book, and the trip will fall through. What should I do/how should I bring it up to her?
EDITS: I have zero plans on paying for my bsf. Even if it means I do not go either. I will continue to save and work regardless of this trip going ahead or not. It will just mean extra money for uni and/or future trips:) For the summer I am working my part time job and the three week summer job.