<prompt> Human: So, some background. We are both grad students in our early 20s and are currently different degrees of dependent on our parents because our programs are unpaid. His parents basically send him 1000 a month, half of which goes to rentutilities, and the rest mostly goes to food and gasparkingcar upkeep. Basically my point is that he has very little fun money. My parents give me money for rent and food, but aside from that I am living off of savings from various jobs Ive had over time. Since it is summer, I currently have two part time jobs and will hopefully end the summer with a net gain of 2.5k or so to add to my savings . Additionally, I have 3k in savings and another 3k invested. I would like to go out and do more things with him, but I cant quite afford to always be paying for him and he clearly cant cover himself, so the activities we do are always free ones, which is fine by me. The thing is, his birthday is coming up, and I noticed that our favorite band is coming to a town about 5 hours by car away for a 2 days festival and that very weekend! Many other bands we like will also be there and as soon of I heard about it, I just cant get the idea of surprising him with a weekend getaway off my head.Ive calculated the costs, and in the end it should end up costing about 650 for us to gotickets, campsite fee, gas, food, etc. Obviously thats a lot for a gift, but it does benefit me a lot too haha. I can afford it, but as you can see Im not necessarily rolling in cash. I want to know if you think it is a wise decision or not to drop so much money on just one weekend. On one hand, it would be a super awesome, unforgettable experience. But on the other, thats a sizable portion of the money Id planned to add to my savings and there are probably more practical things I could spend it on. But then again, it would be fucking rad. Please please give me some objective advice, thank you!  <response>: Practical things will always be there, but going on a trip to a concert is creating memories that you wont forget. Thats not to say screw tomorrow, lets blow all our money!, but that money is a means to an end. Those ends should be in creating a full and enjoyable life. If you handle money responsibly then you are more likely to have that full life.To be honest, the only person you need to ask yourself is you. Youre not going into debt for it as far as I can see and you have enough to cover your expenses before and after, so the question is whether you think spending the money on the trip will be worth it.There are a couple of things I would say if you do decide. First, make sure before you book anything that you can actually go - nothing worse than spending money on something and then finding out that you have a prior commitment. This could mean that you have to tell him beforehand so he knows not to plan anything.The other is that if you think its going to cost 650 then its probably going to actually cost you 850 or 900. Thats because theres going to be some inevitable costs that you havent accounted for. This happened to my fiance and I earlier this year when we were planning our US trip - living in Australia we didnt have nearly enough winter clothing to deal with New York in wintertime and had to buy some. Now we have some fantastic clothes for winter here but it was a cost we didnt account for in our planning, or at least the amount that we actually ended up spending. 