This tip comes from my reader Amy…
My family and I are getting plannnig a trip and I realized a great money saving tip I’ve been doing this year and thought I’d pass it along.
This works great not just for vacations but also for trips to town, church, we did this at our 4H fair, yard sale-ing, ect.
One thing I’ve been doing a lot of this year because of cutbacks in our own budget is using reusable travel mugs. I really like the mugs Shindigz.com sells. The ones’s I’m ordering are $3.99 each and have no min. order. (Shindigz prices already include the customization cost. and they have several patterns you can choose from!)
You can personalize the mugs to the theme of the vacation and can even load pictures if you want to include that. This year my family is going to meet up with some out of state friends, and I’m personalizing the mugs with “2nd annual get a way” with the family last names. The mug is not only something you can use on the trip but becomes a favor/suviouner for the vacation. You can purchase 2liters, juice, milk, ect and pay a fraction of the price that gas stations would charge. Plus they work great at keeping your drink cold/hot.
It’s a great way to make the trip more budget friendly and provide a small token to others without breaking the checkbook or vacation fund!
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Wanna learn how to save even more money? Be sure to read through all the Let’s Save Some Money posts. Keep in mind that not every tip will apply to your family and something that won’t save you a dime might save another family a dollar so no insulting the tips. You are, however, welcome to email me one at any time!
To be honest, this seems more like you are just trying earn money by pushing traffic to Shindigz through your referral link , rather than actually giving your readers a real money saving tip. You might also want to proofread your articles before publishing them.
I’m the reader who submitted this article Leanne, and Shindigz does not have any kind of referral link for anyone to gain anything but great deals at great prices. You can sign up for email savings if you want. I can also say that Kristen does proof read the articles because it’s not the entire article I orginally sumbitted.
Sorry you feel this way.
I only sumbitted an idea that was great for me and has been an idea friends and family also have enjoyed. It’s saves us money for having a reusable item instead of purchasing individual drinks along a trip, event, or ect. That’s what this was about, saving money and having something to remember a speical event.
I collect ornaments for my Christmas tree from trips and special occasions…I have everything from soccer medals to the superfragile handmade ornaments…anyway…over time I have gotten creative to stay in budget…I no longer can afford boutique Chrismas shopping so I may pick up a cheesy snow globe to hang from the tree or a neat key chain…you can drill a hole or hot glue a ribbon on just about anything…you can bring back sea shells or dried flowers and put them in the clear ornaments…anyway…I also collect one one the same for each of my kids so when they go off I will have a box of ornaments representing the places they have been growing up or special events to give them. I have plush animals from our first Disney trip that nestle in the branches of the Christmas tree since I could not spend what I would have liked in the park Christmas shop. :)