Monday’s Money Saving Tips: Cook Your Own Food

It’s been a long time coming with this one, I know, but it’s not something I actually do a lot – generally eating out is cheap for me anyway. But I used to cook my own food all the time, and I started doing it again on my latest adventure. Cooking your own food is Read more about Monday’s Money Saving Tips: Cook Your Own Food[…]

Monday’s Money Saving Tips: Ask the Locals What Price Things Are

As you travel through endless unknown towns and cities, you end up getting “off the backpacker trail”. This only serves to make you a more raw and real traveller in my opinion, as you gain more and more local friends and go weeks without seeing a foreigner, or fellow backpacker. A few years back in Read more about Monday’s Money Saving Tips: Ask the Locals What Price Things Are[…]

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Monday’s Money Saving Tips: Wash Your Own Clothes

I have to admit I’m a dirty cheapskate traveller sometimes but hey, I’d rather be like this and save money to keep me on the road longer. Today on Monday’s Money Saving Tips, I’m sharing my advice on saving money on laundry, not just in places where you can get free laundry by scamming those Read more about Monday’s Money Saving Tips: Wash Your Own Clothes[…]

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Monday’s Money Saving Tips: Buy Cheap Travel Books

As a constant traveller, everything isn’t in my head, nor do I love looking up the internet for travel information tips. I’m very much an old school type when it comes to research and reading about destinations. I LOVE reading travel guide books. I own an extensive collection of these books (currently I’m storing it Read more about Monday’s Money Saving Tips: Buy Cheap Travel Books[…]

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Monday’s Money Saving Tips: Sharing Food and Splitting Costs

Today on Monday’s Money Saving Tips, it’s time for more food tips. On your travels, eating out takes it’s toll. Flashy restaurants with their welcoming scents have to be ignored as they’re beyond your budget, 5 course meals become a dream and you end up with a local supermarket in every city you visit. But Read more about Monday’s Money Saving Tips: Sharing Food and Splitting Costs[…]

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Monday’s Money Saving Tips: Saving Money On Water On Your Travels

. It’s an essential part of your backpacking days and you simply need to drink water. Over the years I’ve learned not to waste money buying water as every traveller seems to do. Here are a few tips on saving money with water. Don’t be that idiot who buys a bottle of water everyday from Read more about Monday’s Money Saving Tips: Saving Money On Water On Your Travels[…]

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Monday’s Money Saving Tips: Useful Phone Guide for Backpackers

While you’ll never see me backpacking with a mobile phone, thanks to my well organised girlfriend, I reluctantly do carry a mobile phone with me these days (though I rarely use it and am never seen with it in my hand!). Me travelling with a phone kind of goes against what I’ve said before on Read more about Monday’s Money Saving Tips: Useful Phone Guide for Backpackers[…]

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Monday’s Money Saving Tips: Always Local Cola

I’m actually a fan of Coca Cola and I much prefer it to stuff like Pepsi. But when you go backpacking and you look for the bargains, you have to look at things rationally and with your strict budget in mind. When you open a fridge in a shop to buy some cola – always Read more about Monday’s Money Saving Tips: Always Local Cola[…]