Since the early 2000s, he and his wife, Karen, traveled to New Zealand for vacation. But one other major expense caught them by surprise: bringing along their two dogs, Xena the Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Jon Kroll"I cannot emphasize enough how important it is, if you plan to bring animals with you, to make that part of your early planning process," Kroll tells CNBC Make It. And it's an expensive process, at that. "But once we retrieved Buffy and Xena from quarantine, our house instantly felt like a home."

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