I talk a lot about money-saving on here because it seems that is still the number one reason why people can’t travel. It’s not that they don’t want to, or don’t have the time, it’s just that they don’t have the funds. Recently, I posted about ways you can cut down on your actual travel budget. I wanted to share with you ways that I’ve cut down on my every day spending.
Savings can be used for anything, but we often like to spend our savings on travel. My husband and I have our ups and downs when it comes to getting serious about saving money. Some weeks we do real well, and other weeks we through caution to the wind and go straight to the mall and out to eat wherever we feel like.
If you’ve been following any of my travel tips, you know that starting out with a travel budget is essential before you even start saving for the trip itself. You need to know how much to save, so that requires a lot of research and coming up with an estimated budget to work from.
Once you have that estimated budget, and you’ve looked at your general finances, you may notice it’s going take you some time to save for that trip. Let’s say you have $150 a month to commit to saving for a trip and you see that your dream trip is going to cost $3,500. That means it is going to take two years to save for the trip. If you don’t want to wait that long and/or you’re willing to change a few things around, you could go on that trip sooner.
