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8 Tips to Help You Save Money While On Vacation

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We also don’t want to come home to a credit card bill. Maybe you don’t want to cook at all during your vacation or maybe eating out for every meal is beyond what your budget can handle. For dinner, we''ll plan to eat in on 5 nights and eat out 2 nights. Create A Budget.

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Eight Tips To Help You Save Money While On Vacation

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Maybe you don’t want to cook at all during your vacation or maybe eating out for every meal is beyond what your budget can handle. Use Cash I like to use cash while on vacation, because I am less tempted to buy useless souvenirs and over spend with a credit card, but it takes a little planning to come up with the cash that we need.

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Needs vs. Wants

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Credit card balances. Yes, credit cards were available. According to Credit Cards.com the Diner’s Club Card was the first of the modern style credit cards to be used and it was available starting in 1950. Many new homes now have 4. We have three.

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Interview with a Self-Made Millionaire

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We had a dishwasher, but it was broken and we didn’t want to spend the money to repair it – so we did without one – for 10 years! Eating out or going to a movie were once a year events. We especially never put anything consumable (like gas, food, eating out, movies and etc) on a credit card.

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