People travel for different reasons ranging from business trips, studying abroad, skill acquisition, holiday vacations, excursion, sports, events, honeymoon etc. While the elites in the society sees traveling as fun, the average person sees it as a herculean task because of the money involved in securing Visa, Flight tickets, accommodation and other miscellaneous expenses attached to traveling (especially abroad).
In other words, whether you are rich, average or poor, you can still travel to your favorite country if you follow the tips on how to save money for travel on this article.
HOW TO SAVE MONEY FOR TRAVEL
I have listed some common strategies to help you save money for your next of first trip below.
1. Start a Side Job
A side job could be an online business which you can be doing simultaneously with your normal daily offline jobs. For instance, a classroom teacher can go into freelancing job which he or she can always do after school hours without interfering with the school activities.
If the teacher is not an online savvy person, he can always start conducting extra moral lessons after normal school hours and make some more money for the trip.
Now let me tell you, a teacher can actually make more than the required money to travel to Europe or any other flight routes under one week through freelancing.
Yes it's true but requires extra work and dedication to achieve that because hardwork + smart work results to more money and success in todays world.
2. Open a New Savings Bank Account
Yes you may need to open a new savings bank account solely for your business trips. This will be the account you save all the money you make from your side jobs.
You will be surprised how much you have saved in 6 months if you are consistent and serious about it.
3. Minimize Your Spending Habits
If you are the type that likes buying any new gadget in town, I'm sorry, you need to cut in on that and watch your spendings if you are actually concerned on saving money for a trip.
Mr. A could be spending lavishly on flashy stuffs and still have enough money for his travels but for Mr. B, he has to understand that all fingers are not equal so to save for your trip, you need to minimize your spending habit.
4. Party Less
Partying or clubbing is fun and a good way to end the week but when you have travel budgets in your mind, you may need to party less or at least spend less while partying.
5. Use Your Car to Make Money
If you have a car, it could surprisingly be an additional source of income to you when you storm the roads to engage in commercial transporting business.
I have a friend that always goes to the roads by 5pm after daily activities to carry passengers and he makes a decent amount of money from that. You too can consider that and save the money made from it for your trip.
6. Cut On Housing Budget
To save the money for your trip, you may need to manage living in a cheap and less affordable house for the mean time. It's hard to take but when there is need for such, a man can always do that to save some bucks.
7. Sell Your Stuffs
Depending on your status and the purpose of traveling, you may sell off some of your properties to fund for your trip.
Assuming you are a single guy trying to travel abroad to work but needs money. Don't you think it's wise to sell that your second hand car to raise money? Who knows, you will replace that money within few weeks or months working abroad.
While selling your property is not the ultimate first step to save money, it can come in handy when other options has proved abortive.
8. Book Cheap Flights
Don't get it twisted, some cheap flights are very conformable and convenient so don't allow the word "cheap" scare you away.
According to your budget, you can book cheap flights from Travelstart Nigeria to save costs for your trip to your desired destination in the world.
CONCLUSION
I love traveling and I'm sure many people also do. The aim of this post is to show everyone that there are creative ways to save money for your trip without borrowing or getting the money from dubious ways.
www.travelstart.com.ng/ happens to be one of the best flight booking website in Nigeria right now. A good option for everyone no matter your gender and level.
