That's a necessity.

For trips, talk to friends from any background about their cherished memorable trips from their childhood and try to repeat what worked. Figure out what caused those childhood trips to be memorable. It is rarely expense from what I can tell.

Expensive trips are often social status signalling. Kids don’t need expensive trips, they won’t appreciate the sacrifices which could be frustrating, and you really need to be able to afford follow-on trips if it turns out your kids love it too much!

For one of my close friends, the family went camping, which was about the cheapest way to go away when I was young. She still loves it and she just bought a new tent (she is mostly careful with money, so even buying a tent is a notable purchase). She took her kids camping, so the good experiences were shared across generations.

Disclaimer: skier. But my childhood skiing was cheap club fields, with cheap gear. Working bee days at the club to work on the club field for a few days each summer. Social. Affordable for a working class family. New Zealand had more of an egalitarian frontier mentality to fun.

I would love to go to so nice destination with magical mountains in colorado than my local hill in wisconsin. I don't care about posting in on facebook or whatever.

Memories are not just for kids though. I would argue they are more for adults.