Do you want to travel but feel like you don't have the money to do it???
My husband and I decided to save all of our change a couple years ago. We have an old pickle jar.
Think: Costco/Sams/BJs size.
We keep it by our hamper. Every evening when we dress down from work we empty our pockets of ALL change. We don't use a lot of cash either- we try to put everything on credit cards to earn points. We agreed that we cannot take coins from the jar until we take our Alaskan Vacation.
This morning I dragged the coin jar out of the house and hoisted it up in to my car. I kept it in the car all day wondering how much we would get out of this... At 3pm I headed over to the bank and barely made it in to the counter. It took the machine over 5 minutes to sort and count, the whole time I was wondering how much it could be.
And the grand total was $300!!! That was a great bit of satisfaction. We are finally going to Alaska in a few weeks and can use this to pay for an excursion that we're dreaming of.
A helicopter ride on to Mendenhall Glacier. :)
We also saved up three years worth of credit card points to pay for one flight segment. Unfortunately for us, our trip starts in one city and ends in another, which means expensive one way flights :(
Point is... You don't realize how much you can help yourself take a vacation by simple things like saving your change and credit card bonus points.
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