Comments on: 17 Ways to Cut Your Expenses and Have More Money for Travel https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/cut-your-expenses/ Travel Better, Cheaper, Longer Tue, 29 Apr 2025 02:22:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Marielle https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/cut-your-expenses/#comment-1633198 Fri, 22 Jan 2021 14:07:32 +0000 https://www.nomadicmatt.com/?p=14018#comment-1633198 Couldn’t agree more with these tips. This is everything we do so we can have more money to travel and when we travel, we also still consider these factors to be able to do it cheaply. Especially now, we’re really saving so that when the world comes to a new normal, we can travel, travel, travel.
Like you, we’ve been tracking our expenses through an app (called Splitwise), opened up separate accounts, always buy things 2nd hand (or even upcycle them!! we upcycled our whole campervan with 2nd hand furniture and our home too haha), replaced our lightbulbs to LED lol and made our own home cinema with a projector at home and in our campervan so we don’t ever have to go to the movies 😉 Love your suggestions, we couldn’t have related more with it!

]]> By: Pooja Mandal https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/cut-your-expenses/#comment-1628769 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:09:58 +0000 https://www.nomadicmatt.com/?p=14018#comment-1628769 Hey Matt,
There are so many of these that I already follow. But just using credit cards is something that I am always afraid of. I have heard a lot many people talk about this but somehow can not get the courage to get one. I always feel I will be in debt. Need to try getting one.
Great list!

]]> By: Rajiv https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/cut-your-expenses/#comment-1628659 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:02:59 +0000 https://www.nomadicmatt.com/?p=14018#comment-1628659 I have already started cutting my expenses from 2019. I want to travel to Latin America country Mexico.

Hopefully, I will be going next year unless something happens.

]]> By: Chris https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/cut-your-expenses/#comment-374782 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:55:58 +0000 https://www.nomadicmatt.com/?p=14018#comment-374782 Great tips! Also, I think it helps a lot to get some books and become financially literate. I’ve read a lot of Robert Kiyosaki and authors like that, and it made a huge difference in how I handle my finances.

]]> By: Stephen https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/cut-your-expenses/#comment-373625 Wed, 12 Mar 2014 00:32:23 +0000 https://www.nomadicmatt.com/?p=14018#comment-373625 Great tips buddy,

Charles Schwab has saved me so much money over the last year!

When I was saving for my RTW I cut all the expenses I could. Little thing like movies added up.

]]> By: DJ Yabis https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/cut-your-expenses/#comment-372596 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 01:20:49 +0000 https://www.nomadicmatt.com/?p=14018#comment-372596 In reply to Stacey.

Starbucks could already cover your meals in Asia for a day! Agree with most of this post. If you’re gonna do a Pareto on this, I think the top saving tips are cook on your own and couchsurfing!

]]> By: P Peswani https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/cut-your-expenses/#comment-369986 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:48:52 +0000 https://www.nomadicmatt.com/?p=14018#comment-369986 Some good pieces of advice, although you can’t become total cheap person. The number one useless cost is cigarettes, ditch it! I would suggest to start saving some money as early as possible (remember time is your worst enemy), and investing it long term in good company stocks, which give out a high dividend % yield.

]]> By: Savannah T https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/cut-your-expenses/#comment-369687 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 08:50:39 +0000 https://www.nomadicmatt.com/?p=14018#comment-369687 Im so glad I found this website!!!!
Firstly traveling RTW has been a growing itch for about a year now.
I currently live in rural Melbourne Vic and have been going throughy expenses to see wwhat I can cut and minamilize everything I do have debt in relation to my car im planning to sell my large car and buy a cheap run around therefore squaring my debt and allowing me to save for my trip!! Woohoo!
Next thing I do have a credit card should I hold onto it and use it for overseas or pay it down and get rid of it???

Im so excited I have never left Australia and will be turning 21 in a few weeks planni Nguyen to be able to go beginning of 2015 🙂

]]> By: Joe Q https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/cut-your-expenses/#comment-351303 Wed, 18 Sep 2013 09:28:05 +0000 https://www.nomadicmatt.com/?p=14018#comment-351303 Also drinking a lot of water, knowing how to select the food you eat and cook it will save you a lot of money and keep your Health.

]]> By: Yves https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/cut-your-expenses/#comment-350050 Sat, 31 Aug 2013 13:56:57 +0000 https://www.nomadicmatt.com/?p=14018#comment-350050 Matt has great tips on saving money. I have been without a car for almost a year and I do not miss it at all even though I live in a suburb where bus service is not great on weekends. I just jump on my bike or walk to the grocery store or whatever. Every time I say to myself I just saved $6 in bus fare and I am contributing to a good lifestyle of exercise. I should note that I am 60 and retired with no dependents so it makes things easy. I also gave up cable two years ago. I also have no subscription to a cell phone and instead of Starbucks I splurge with a senior’s coffee at McDonalds. I have always been somewhat frugal but now I actually enjoy it as a challenge that allows me funds to travel several times a year.

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