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8 Tips to Help You Save Money While On Vacation

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Your planning starts with your destination. How long will your travel time be? 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. Create a Meal Plan. For dinner, we''ll plan to eat in on 5 nights and eat out 2 nights.

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Eight Tips To Help You Save Money While On Vacation

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It might seem so obvious, but a little planning will help you save money while on your trip, so that you can have the relaxed vacation that you hoped for. Of course, your planning starts with where you are going. How long is your travel time to your destination and how are you getting there? Create a Meal Plan.

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s $29 Food Stamp Budget – I pay $30 a week no food stamps

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My daughter does competitive cheerleading and that itself is $3K a year (not including travel). This is what I do: Step 1 : make a monthly menu plan and stick it on the fridge or the wall. Note: to see my example of a monthly menu plan, click here. All I had to do was what my grandmother had taught me.

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