Resolutions_ and how far I am sticking to it

Yeah, I made a resolution. Save for a rainy day (read as TRAVEL).

And as mentioned earlier, this begin with evey dirham or dollar. I now have a box labelled TRAVEL and dirhams converted to dollars go into this. The resaon for converting into dollar is to ensure that I dont spend it. Heck, there is something comforting is seeing the dollars pile up but the sight of the Dirham sittng by itself makes me want to go shopping!

This year's travel budget is pegged at about 10,000 USD (It's the upper limit of course and I like the upper limit because it pushes me to save more) and if I didnt use all of it, then I have enough for the next year! This upper limit includes all airfare, visas, stay, spending money on each of the trip I would be on this year. Clearly not all of it is going on one trip!!!!!!

Happy saving and Happy traveling.

PS. On a happy note, I save USD 2.5 today. Here is how. I walk into MacDonalds for my favourite coffee and hash browns (which costs AED 9) and remembered in time that I had some copons left over from last year. I remember seeing that the date of expiry on the tickets was Dec 2010, however upon enquiring with the cashier, she seemed okay to let me use it!

Call it luck. So I got my coffee, hashbrowns and a sausage burger and a free Coffee Mug to boot. AED 9 (about 2.5 USD) goes into the kitty!