Saving money for vacation camping
Those of you with a family, have you come up with any interesting ways to save up for your vacations? I am starting to try to think of creative ways to save for all of the gas money that we will nee...
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Supercharged wrote:
I started on this in 1962 when I first started workout west. I invested well as I made more money I invested more, and more, and then came along inflation, so I used it to reinvest and reinvest until I had two incomes and then three and to five and then ten. So when we want to go on a vacation I just open up the vault and take out a bushel at a time and spend it.
You did it right, I hope your children watched and listened.
The sad thing, today for young families and older ones having to start over, filling that bushel and getting a good price for the corn is a lot harder. Job losses, unstable economies etc has made it a struggle to save for anything.
Also, we have become a "want it now so we'll have it now" society. A lot of people have gotten caught up in the easy credit given out and then through no fault of their own lost a job and are struggling.
Our vault is an envelope. It gets a weekly deposit.
