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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The only way we took vacations when we had all 6 kids living at home was for me to go to work. First Part-time job and then I went Full-time.
We only took a big trip every other year. Just trying to find a 10-14 day stretch in summer we could both take off was the hardest part. We did West Coast Beach vacations, East Coast History (Gettysburg, Williamsburg), Disney World, Universal and packed a lot into those 10 days.
Packed bag lunches, homemade Pizza instead of Little Caesar's on Friday nights and the best advice mentioned already was $XXX cash for food each week. DH got his allowance out of it and all groceries, toiletries and kids allowances for their school activities. If I didn't use the full amount, it carried over into the Cash Vacation envelope.
Now it's just the two of us, we full-time and use Rewards CC's to help fund our extras.
Final piece of advice, we didn't send any of our kids to college, they found their own way to pay for it...
We only took a big trip every other year. Just trying to find a 10-14 day stretch in summer we could both take off was the hardest part. We did West Coast Beach vacations, East Coast History (Gettysburg, Williamsburg), Disney World, Universal and packed a lot into those 10 days.
Packed bag lunches, homemade Pizza instead of Little Caesar's on Friday nights and the best advice mentioned already was $XXX cash for food each week. DH got his allowance out of it and all groceries, toiletries and kids allowances for their school activities. If I didn't use the full amount, it carried over into the Cash Vacation envelope.
Now it's just the two of us, we full-time and use Rewards CC's to help fund our extras.
Final piece of advice, we didn't send any of our kids to college, they found their own way to pay for it...
