{"id":198,"date":"2011-05-16T13:52:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T13:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2011-05-16T13:52:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T13:52:28","slug":"frequent-flier-saving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Frequent Flier Saving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our goal is to help you to travel as much as possible, while still making it affordable.\u00a0 I know we are all on budgets and the downturn in the economy has taken a toll on our incomes.\u00a0 Mine has taken a hit from the PPACA healthcare bill.\u00a0 I know that I don’t want the economy to change my traveling goals.<\/p>\n

We are lucky enough to both be working at the current moment.\u00a0 My wife has been working for a little over a year. We weren’t sure how long she was going to be working so from the beginning we wanted to make sure that we would not get used to her income and make that a part of our monthly budget.\u00a0 As a result we had decided that we would save the money she earned.\u00a0 Part would go toward fixing up our house, part toward a newer car, and part toward traveling.\u00a0 It has been nice because the account just slowly fills up and when we have accumulated enough in the account we take a trip.<\/p>\n

This has worked great to budget money for a trip each month and planning forward.\u00a0 It is amazing how it adds up so quickly and you can plan a trip on a yearly basis as long as you are funding the account sufficiently.\u00a0 The best part is that WorldWanderlusting is helping you to take a trip at least once a year.\u00a0 We have the credit cards with sign up bonuses that will help you to afford traveling once a year or even more often than that.\u00a0 Imagine taking a cruise and not paying for the expensive airfare to get to Puerto Rico (Which I did before I discovered this method of traveling $500\/person OUCH!).\u00a0 That means that a cruise for two might cost you $1000 between the two of you which would definitely include sight-seeing, tips, cruise, and souvenirs. That’s only $83.33 per month for one year.\u00a0 Fix up the budget and fit it in.<\/p>\n

So here is how you make it happen.\u00a0 You both sign up fo the Delta Skymiles Platinum Card (See Below).\u00a0 This will each give you a sign on bonus of 20,000 miles.\u00a0 You only have to either add two more cardmembers (one child and one spouse) and then you are at 25,000.\u00a0 This card also allows you no checked baggage fees, which would be a savings of $100 for both of you in fees.\u00a0 Then look for a great deal on a cruise out of Ft. Lauderdale or Miami in November, December or January.\u00a0 I say these months because everyone wants to leave Idaho during that time of the year.<\/p>\n

So, go open a new savings account.\u00a0 Give it a nickname like “Get out of Idaho in November,” “Sacred Funds,” or “Trip Jar.”\u00a0 Start saving today so you can get out of town tomorrow.<\/p>\n


\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our goal is to help you to travel as much as possible, while still making it affordable.\u00a0 I know we are all on budgets and the downturn in the economy has taken a toll on our incomes.\u00a0 Mine has taken … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DhXV-3c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}