I'm always trying to find ways of saving money. Cutting back on unnecessary spending and being savy with cash so I can travel..

Lets hear all your day to day tips !!!!!!!


My newest one has been making homebrew wine.

I used to buy 4-5 bottles of wine a week. At about £5-£7 a bottle, thats £100 a month. Sometimes more heh heh..

You can buy very easy to do, pre-mixed wine kits for £25 which will make 25 bottles of very good quality wine.. It's SOOOO easy you wouldnt believe.

My wine bill is now £12.50 a month instead of £100 !!!!!!!

Obviously you can do this for all wines, s, cider etc etc ! all the equipment costs about £50 which pays for itself in the first month.

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Ha ha - ever since getting back from my last trip, I have manage to borrow all my furniture, borrow some clothes and worked out that if you eat oats and sultans for breakfast, that only cost $5AUD a month!

All my friends are amazed at how heap I am!

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quit smoking, quit drinking, sleep in a tent, quit motorcycles and use a bicycle, and if this doesnt cause major depression the fact that you shaking, mildy hyperthermic and no where near your destination will!

On a serious note I think shopping around both before your trip and whilst on it helps. When you have a budget theres a big difference between a ten grand bike and a five grand bike, even if it "wasnt the one charley mcgreggor used".

i drink around 4-5 cups of coffee a day ... 2€ * 5 = 10 €*50 days = 500€!!!

to make a saving a started to ask for hot water and make my own coffee ... it saves a lot...

On the drinking front try boxes of wine instead of bottles. Cheaper, plus you can have a glass and there is no pressure to finish off the bottle.

Supermarket own brands will save you loads. Some are below par (can't stand Morrisons basic stuffin, but ASDA's is OK), some (like ASDA curry sauce at 6p a jar) are great. Try everything then switch back when you really can't stand the cheap ketchup or whatever.

Get yourself some aluminium boxes for the freezer too. You'll cut your portions as one portion always goes in the tin box for the freezer. Healthier AND one meal in three/four is basically free. If you really need to save, chicken's are dirt cheap right now. A £3 chicken plus veg, curry sauce, mushrooms to make a pie etc. will feed two people for about five days. Gets a bit repetative, but that's where cheap wine comes in!

Your local library is a lot cheaper than Amazon.

A bit late in the year, but if you've got a garden plant some veg. Supermarket Garlic, Spuds, chiles and peppers are all "live". Chuck the clove/spud/seed in a pot and you can grow freebies. Even garden centre plants are cheaper if they live.

The killer for a lot of people is snacks. If you like burgers, I find the McDonalds breakfast a lot better treat than stuff in the afternoon where you blow a fiver but still want your next meal.

I'm a Yorkshireman, I'm supposed to be mean

Andy

+1. Also, many libraries allow you to request any book on the county catalogue and get them sent to your local branch for free. For a fee they can access books not in the county and get pretty much anything. This means that your local library is very much larger than it looks.

Also, if you live nearish to a county border you can often join the library in the town over the border. That gives you two county catalogues to search.

Worth checking before you set out to buy a book just to read it rather than own it.

Good tips! A lot of them hadn't occured to me. I tend to try to avoid eating in restaurants so much, and try to shop at supermarkets (and buy their own brand of food as another user mentioned- it's always cheaper). Depending on where you're travelling, you can find water fountains around the city with drinking water, and it's a good idea to carry around a water bottle and fill it up each time you see a fountain. You save a lot by not buying bottled water

Absolutely agree with everyone on the eBay front (that's Trade Me if you live in New Zealand!).

Having "sold up" twice and got rid of all my worldly possessions (including a car) online, it's by far and away the quickest way to get the funds you need for travelling. And it's amazing what people will cough up for stuff you consider to be junk...

Jeanie

For a 12 month trip "on leave", if you depart/stop working by the end of June, you would get the maximum undully paid taxes back for that year (refund), and when coming back and working again, you would pay the fewer, since it is a propotional system (the more you earn in the year, the more you pay, so you split 1 year revenues in 2 halves and pay much less). Can be done any other month, but this way you would maximize it.

Worst scenario: you leave on 1st January (pay full taxes for your revenues during the previous year and 100% again when you come and start to work).

So, don't forget to ask four your taxes back! (I sort of tried to explain it in this thread, although not very successfully :confused1:, so fiscal experts please correct me).

Great ideas! The problem with the ebay selling for me is that all the money goes into my paypal account which I re-spend on ebay

Equating daily purchases with something like "that cup of coffee just cost me 50 miles of travel" or "those new shoes just cost me a border crossing" or "that dinner out just cost me a week of beach camping" etc...

Do it yourself can save more than you think. Brewing my own saves me almost 1000 USD per year. Cooking meals at home can save thousands.

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Some people then click "i did not get my itam" so they get their money back from paypal and your "problem" is solved too

If you have sold your stuff on ebay you also dont need a place to store it anymore.

Money saving wastes lees of your limited live time then to earn more. The basics are:

1)Dont rent a flat or hotel room, live in a car or tent as if you are traveling (and sell everything wich doesnt fit in)
2)Buy second hand things to prevent value loss (bike, smartphone etc) and leve the financing of it to others, who dont want to travel
3)Only eat in Restaurants in third world countrys in Europa they ruin you, but there you can find many supermarkets.

This way i save ₤ 800 by earning ₤ 1000 a month. Each ₤ 800 will then last for 3 months traveling to enjoy this beautifull planet. If you manage to sell your storys to magazines, you can even travel for free

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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.

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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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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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.