most of the costs of the vacation (airfare, hotel, and forgone wages) are measured in dollars,?

but the benefits of the vacation are psychological. How can you compare the benefits to the costs?

that is up to the individual.

Weelll, lessee, no cooking, sweeping, vacuuming, making beds, washing dishes, laundry, mowing, running to the dry cleaners, yelling at the kids, shopping, clogged toilets, email, telemarketers, feeding doggies, scooping poop, traffic, smog, honking horns...Instead, I get 3 meals a day that someone else cooked, someone to make my bed everyday, pick up after me while I lounge on the beach with a drink in one hand and a good book in the other....Yeah, can I stay another week?

You could state it like one of those MasterCard commercials:Airfare: $450 per personHotel: $95 a nightRelaxing on the beach thousands of miles from work: Priceless
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