I have a question I'm curious about which actually pertains to the intersection of Disney and financial stuff (perhaps not FIRE specific, but FIRE would definitely be included). How much of all of these types of decisions do you feel relates to your family of origin? So, as an example my family was always really frugal, really entrepreneurial, future focused way before Ramsey or MMM or Bogleheads, etc... We never took vacations as such, but finally took a trip to Disney when MK and EPCOT was all there was, and stayed off site of course. So, oddly, my view of finances and of Disney was significantly impacted by my FoO (Family of Origin). So, some people are the opposite of their FoO and some people carry on from their FoO.
My views lean to FI much more than RE, for sociological, psychological, religious reasons, etc... but more than that, my husband, family and such has always pushed to be your own boss, own your own business, and I'm not sure that RE applies the same, or is sought the same, in that circumstance. So, for us the goal has always been avoiding debt, saving more than you spend, make sure you have enough for retirement, and also to leave to family when you are done with it. My advice is really schooling centric; there are ways of getting your education without going into crippling debt, make sure you dig into the different colleges and what they offer. My husband has a PhD and I have a Masters, we both belonged to programs where our tuition was paid and we got a stipend if we worked for the college programs in which we were enrolled. We also sought scholarships and grants. It was hard going to grad school and working part and full time, living away from home, etc... but the work was definitely worth it for us.
I would also consider us mild minimalists (lol) as we don't have too much house or too much stuff. I cook all our food, and we grow a garden, we don't really like to shop much. But, this is where Disney comes in; as others on this thread we don't go into debt (not even close, if so I'd never do it) to take a Disney trip. We know the discounts and have gone for over 30 years. We don't go hog wild when we are there. I think that was one of the points of living as we have lived; have enough money to do what we want and make money serve God and us, and not the other way around where you're serving money and those that hold debt over you (the banks, credit card companies, loan companies, etc...). So, time with family and seeing the world via travel is part of that for us.
This is one interesting area where I think philosophy and practicality live side by side; as your philosophy goes, your actions in regards to money follow. I'm just interested to know from those of a like mind when it comes to money; did that philosophy come to you by way of family, or other?