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Budget Stretchers

Your travel budget goes further with smart choices - staying longer in cheaper countries, slow travel, cooking, transportation timing, and work exchanges. Small daily habits multiply into weeks of extra travel.

Base Your Purchase on Use, Not Value

Bulk Buying

Buy Jugs of Water

Ask for Going Rates

Send Home by Sea

Car Rental Coverage on Credit Cards

Renting Mopeds and Motorbikes

Don't be Embarrassed by Your Budget

Pay With Cash When Booking Trips

Get Cards That Give Back

Low Interest Rate Credit Cards

Consider the Country You'll Call the Most

Stretch Your Moolah

Churched Out?

Yeah for VAT

Shipping by Boat

Overnight Trains

Eurail Passes on RTW

How Much to Budget?

RTW Ticket Deals

When Not to Fly

Where to Get Fake Student Cards

Watch Spending When Traveling With Others

Set Aside a Slush Fund

Keep Your Budget In Line

Get Currency Before You Go

Inquire About Credit Card Conversion Fees

Store Conversion Rates

Automatic, Paperless Statements

Enroll in Automatic Bill Pay

Warn Your Credit Card Company Before Traveling Overseas

Know Your Bank Exchange Rate

Debit vs. ATM vs. Credit Cards

Subpar Exchange Rates for Traveller's Checks

Know Your ATM Fees

Credit Card Usage Overseas

Never Exchange Money at an Airport or Hotel

ATMs for Exchanging Cash

Skip the Travellers Checks

Credit Card Exchange Rates

Call Your Credit Card Companies

Skip the Checks

Budgeting for Extras

Set Aside Some of Your Paycheck

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