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2 May 2011
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Avoid debt.
A mortgage for your house is allowed but no loans for anything, never, ever.
Save up and pay cash for your bike, car, yacht, the lot.
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2 May 2011
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A penny saved is a penny earnt.
Keep saving, it's not just important for travelling but for the economy! Well so I was told by our Ex-PM good 'ol Johnny
I'll also add that buying tickets well in advance like for us, buying ferry tickets with the Bike included over 6mths in advance saved us 40%. It's not always possible to do and I wouldn't change my travel plans just to get a discount but worth shopping around just incase.
Also when shopping at the supermarket, I always go for sale items. I rarely buy meat a full price, I always like to wait until it's been discounted. Then I buy in bulk and freeze what I don't eat.
When travelling, I usually become vegetarian at least when cooking my own meals because it's difficult to keep meat and dairy products cold on a bike, so safer just to eat food that won't spoil, this had the added advantage of keeping costs down.
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18 Aug 2011
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hustler
Avoid debt.
A mortgage for your house is allowed but no loans for anything, never, ever.
Save up and pay cash for your bike, car, yacht, the lot.
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That, my friend, is the absolute truth!!!
What I am doing right now, only 15 more years to pay my flat with garage and then housing = 0€.
All the other stuff that I own, is paid for.
And I have two jobs... in the week for the government, in the weekends I have my own company... so most of my expenses are paid for by my own company - no profit means no taxes  - so half of what I earn in the week I can save up!
Problem is with this system that it is hard to take holiday's... so we are saving up and when my company stops making money, we'll take a year of, have enough saved up for this.
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18 Aug 2011
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picked up a honda cbr125 few weeks back.it saved me 40 quid in fuel last weekend...new forest and back in van 50 quid....cbr was about a tenner..ran it till completly stopped with a spare can of fuel strapped on and ended up 250 miles on 9.5 litres?...why didnt i get one of these years ago?been using it as run around rather than using van when i can and its been quite an eyeopener.....dont tell the government that its possible to get nearly 120 to the gallon they will want to ban the things..defrauding the revenue by not spending fortunes on fuel.
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