Minimize Costs
People always ask us how we can hold down a career, have kids and travel so much. It can be quite a challenge, but one of our core beliefs is that we should travel as much as possible, so we just make it a priority. One of the keys to traveling more is to minimize your costs on each trip that you make. We have developed dozens of tricks over the years to travel cheaply, but still comfortably (depending on your definition of comfort). In this section, we share our tips so that you can maximize your time on the road. Sometimes you need to spend money for an experience, so we share our philosophy of where to spend and where to save. We call this traveling cheap comfortably.Less Clutter–More Money for Travel
This article was written for Knoworthy.com. We have reprinted it here for your convenience, but you can view the original article here. In our ongoing effort to provide minimalist travel tips, here we present five things that you can do this week to reduce your clutter and save money so you can travel more. Decluttering your life can seem, well, impossible at times. Or, more likely, it is a project you will start on this weekend, or next month, or when you get back from your vacation this summer. There is always that elusive start date that seems to eternally slip away like a mirage in the desert. The key to decluttering is to start small. Here I present five things in order of difficulty (simplest to most difficult) that you can do this week to start you on your path to a clutter-free life. (more…)How to Save Money at Restaurants
This week’s post is another in our TravlMor series on how to live a minimalist lifestyle so you can afford to travel more often. If you enjoy this article, please see the links at the bottom of this post for more in this series.
How much food do you throw away? If you are the average American, you probably trash about 400 pounds of food per year. How many actual dollars do you intentionally throw away? My guess is none. But if you are wasting that much food, you are throwing away dollars every week that you could be using to go visit Borneo.
When I was growing up, I heard the same thing from my mother that most people my age heard from theirs, “Eat everything on your plate. There are starving kids in Africa/China/India that don’t have any food.” At the time, to be completely honest, Africa/China/India was such a nebulous concept that this line of reasoning did not really work for me. My world was my family, school, neighborhood and friends. I had no idea what kids in other countries were like and did not think about them much.
The point of this post is not to talk about starving children. The point here is to do what your mother told you and eat all of the food on your plate. Every time.
So how do you do this without getting to be 400 pounds yourself? Have you seen the portion sizes that restaurants give you? How can someone eat all of that food in one sitting?
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