Big news on the trip front this week! Remember when I was freaking out because flights were so expensive? In August I priced them out at $435 each (before all the stupid taxes and fees) and my heart was hurting. I dutifully budgeted $1300 for flights and went on with my life. Well, I’m excited to say we finally booked at a total, after fees, of $980.28.
Still expensive enough I’m going whhhhhhhy, but significantly under my budgeted amount, a flight tracker I was using predicted these to be some of the best prices I was likely to see. This is why I like to budget high! I was never planning to spend $1300 on flights, but hey, the budget thinks I was, so this overage will go to offset a slightly higher hotel price- because of course in the week between getting the numbers and actually booking, the hotel for San Diego went up. It’s always something, you guys.
I’m excited to have our flights settled, but I’m also pretty nervous about it- because now we’re locked in, you know? This is it, these are definitely our dates, this is happening. Eeeek! Kiddo has no idea, I can’t wait to surprise her with her first plane flight!
I booked our flights through a shopping portal, since I didn’t ask Erin to help with the flights. Since it won’t credit until we actually fly, that will be a nice start to our next “couponing to somewhere” adventure!
I killed it this week in earnings. One of the big things I was waiting for finally paid out, to the tune of $130! I also finished up a big craft order, and I was able to cash out several other apps. I plan on finishing my last craft order this coming week. I’m hopeful I can scrape up some dollars in my apps and through surveys, because the closer we get to Christmas, the harder it will be find the time to earn!
My Best Buy giftcards came about because I spent $50 on Hulu giftcards from Best Buy (deal still available!) We pay for the service anyway, so this was like free money!
2020 West Coast Trip Goal: $5000
December 2nd- December 8th
$200- Craft Sales
$130- Product Test
$20.15- Ibotta
$20.14 Secret Shops
$20- Best Buy GCs *Spend $50 on gift cards, earn $10*
$10.49- Ross Class Action Lawsuit
$10.16- CoinOut
$5- Crowdtap
$3- Pinecone Research
$0.90- Misc
21 c- Found
Total earned this week: $420.05
Fund Total from last post: $2823.89
Current Fund Total: $3243.94
Only $1746.06 to go!
Couponing To Somewhere Week 28: Black Friday Hangover