So, it was going to cost $550 to bring the emotional support rodents home for the holidays. (Air New Zealand: profiting from other people’s misery since well before March 15.) Luckily the daughter has found a mouse sitter for the mid year break instead.
The struggle to adulthood is an expensive business these days. When I was in my first year at Uni away from home, I got anorexia, and that saved my parents money. Our food bills plummeted.