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<p>[QUOTE="heavenlyjane, post: 801601, member: 2226"]</p><p>When I started out in this hobby, we were getting out of debt from years of private school tuition and expensive summer camp. I decided that if we were going on a fiscal diet, I couldn't handle years of austerity at the same time. So I started this hobby to give us periodic rewards for our good work at reducing our debt.</p><p></p><p>I built into our budget a $40 weekly transfer to a saving account, which we named our Travel Fund. I figured that by trimming our spending to the bone, we could still afford $40/week for our first love, travel. Very slowly we built up a few hundred dollars.</p><p></p><p>Our first trip was a long weekend trip to Key West in Winter 2013, using two free weekend nights at any Hyatt and airfare from a SW CC. Our primary cost was a car rental, which our Travel Fund paid for. All the other costs fell into categories already covered by our budget. Our one splurge was a round trip visit to Dry Tortugas National Park. The Key West Hyatt Resort seemed beyond luxurious to us previous motel dwellers; we felt pampered beyond our wildest dreams. We couldn't believe we were staying there for free. This was our first trip ever that hadn't created new debt.</p><p></p><p>Since then we are away nearly every long weekend, with the idea that travel can be almost as economical as staying home. We also paid off $100K in CC debt in less than 4 years, all while building up this hobby. With the miracle of spreadsheets, anything is possible.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="heavenlyjane, post: 801601, member: 2226"] When I started out in this hobby, we were getting out of debt from years of private school tuition and expensive summer camp. I decided that if we were going on a fiscal diet, I couldn't handle years of austerity at the same time. So I started this hobby to give us periodic rewards for our good work at reducing our debt. I built into our budget a $40 weekly transfer to a saving account, which we named our Travel Fund. I figured that by trimming our spending to the bone, we could still afford $40/week for our first love, travel. Very slowly we built up a few hundred dollars. Our first trip was a long weekend trip to Key West in Winter 2013, using two free weekend nights at any Hyatt and airfare from a SW CC. Our primary cost was a car rental, which our Travel Fund paid for. All the other costs fell into categories already covered by our budget. Our one splurge was a round trip visit to Dry Tortugas National Park. The Key West Hyatt Resort seemed beyond luxurious to us previous motel dwellers; we felt pampered beyond our wildest dreams. We couldn't believe we were staying there for free. This was our first trip ever that hadn't created new debt. Since then we are away nearly every long weekend, with the idea that travel can be almost as economical as staying home. We also paid off $100K in CC debt in less than 4 years, all while building up this hobby. With the miracle of spreadsheets, anything is possible. [/QUOTE]
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