Hoarding those pennies

I've always felt that, for most of us, travel is a choice and not a luxury. Years ago, when my husband and I quit our jobs to travel for six months, people were constantly saying, "Oh, I wish I was lucky enough to do that." This annoyed me no end! We weren't handed an inheritance or a winning lottery ticket. We saved up, went without things we enjoyed and managed to find enough money to go and do it. We also had to quit our jobs, give up our apartment and put everything we owned that didn't fit in our backpacks into a storage locker.

We chose travel over career advancement, stability and material possessions like cars and stereos that had two working speakers. AND IT WAS WORTH IT!

We can all do with a little shove in the right direction when it comes to finding our travel budget, so I was thrilled to find this travel savings calculator from TravelMuse. It goes through your spending to find things you can save on this year, giving you more money to travel, and all in a user-friendly, non-spreadsheet-y format.

All I can say is that after using the calculator, I have NO excuse for not travelling this year...