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Housesitting, Pet-Sitting and Work Exchange Programs Help People Travel on a Budget

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It’s no surprise that the cost of travel is rising. A report from travel insurance provider Squaremouth found that travelers planned to spend nearly $10,000 on average for their 2024 summer travels. A love of travel motivated HomeExchange super-users Jean and Michael to join the program. “We

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5 Smart Money Hacks to Help You Budget for the Holidays

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How can anyone on a budget relax about money during the holidays? Here are a few hacks I’ve used over the years to help me both budget and enjoy the holidays. Consider it my gift to you, my fellow budgeters. Still, having a fixed sum in my head that won’t put me over budget leaves me freer to enjoy what shopping I can do.

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The Budget Roller Coaster

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All these factors can make budgeting challenging because freelancers sometimes don’t know how much they’ll earn in a certain time frame. Understand Your Freelance Budget Getting a full picture of a freelancer’s budget also requires understanding expenses. Budgets should also be dynamic, Dettloff says.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With books, blogs and YouTube (or as Akpan calls it, “YouTube University”), she began educating herself on financial literacy and how to budget. This is when Akpan landed a gig from her blog.

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How to Incorporate Slow Travel Into Your Vacations

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The desire to travel is a very real thing that we can see all around us—from our close friends’ Instagram stories to content creators’ travel vlogs that highlight every step of the traveling process, including packing, hopping on the plane and taking in the sights. What is slow travel? Stay longer in a location.

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Empower’s Budget App Will Teach You All About Smart Money Management

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The Empower budget app offers many features, including the ability to track your cash flow, see your net worth at a glance and more. These tools help you stick to your budget, manage investments and achieve your financial goals. What Are The Key Features Of Empower’s Budget App? The app takes a broader approach.

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Business Travel Is Back: How to Maximize Your Miles

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In a typical year, Jared Neff, owner of Neff Yacht Sales in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, travels for work a few times a month. Last year, COVID-related international travel bans kept Neff mostly grounded. He took three round-trip domestic flights the entire year and didn’t travel internationally at all. 1 Business or personal?

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