Comments on: Ways to save up for your dream holiday

By: How to Save Money for Your Trips and Extreme Saving Tips | soloflightEd

How to Save Money for Your Trips and Extreme Saving Tips | soloflightEd — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:25:32 +0000

[...] Flip of FlipNomad.com – Smart Planning for Long Term Travelling: Saving Money Chichi of WeAreSoleSisters.com – Sole Sister’s Guide to Saving Up for Your Escape Fund Lois of WeAreSoleSisters.com – Sole Sister’s Guide to Saving Up for Your Escape Fund (Part2) Nina of JustWandering.org – Earning Money For Travel [...]

By: nina

nina — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:15:00 +0000

Exag ang pagtitipid na ginagawa mo Ed! Bilib ako sa discipline mo!

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:18:09 +0000

hi Nina, had to link this up in my blog post. I agree that money doesn’t come easy when we simply start our own blogs. it takes a lot of work too, and oh, online self-promotion. hehe

By: Procne

Procne — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:20:01 +0000

Wow thank you!

By: Confessions of a solo female traveler | justwandering.org

Confessions of a solo female traveler | justwandering.org — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:22:48 +0000

[...] am not rich. I get a lot of questions about what I do for a living to be traveling so much. I actually do have a regular job. I work nights, that’s why I’m able to travel during the weekends. I am lucky to have a [...]

By: dahon

dahon — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:15:58 +0000

Agree on the above tips nina! To add, while planning to save up, it’s good also plan also for a really cheap travel — fun things happen if you’re splurging more on activities more than hotels/lodging .

By: cayce

cayce — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:09:35 +0000

hiya! sometimes i forget to read replies to my comments.. you’re going to peninsular malaysia in june! how cool! and DARNNN… if i was still living in Bangsar, KL, you know that you could always sleep on my couch. Currently based in Central Kalimantan for orangutan work, and you’re always welcome to my house!

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 05 May 2009 04:31:35 +0000

Just found your blog and I’m enjoying the read. It’s going to take me a while to get through three years of travels. I’m usually more of a browser than a commenter, but this post got me dreaming again about ’round the world travel.

It was actually Dave’s blog from gobackpacking.com that put the bug in my ear a year ago. Due to the housing market I’m stuck…but at least I can keep dreaming, and saving :-)

Keep up the good work.

By: dyanie

dyanie — Sat, 02 May 2009 04:32:28 +0000

i try to book early for my plane tickets and hotel stay. The longer the date, the cheaper right?

like u, i pay the bills first then whatever the extra goes to travel. but sometimes when i get my pay, i try to deduct the “this is for my travel fund” and then i set my mind that the remaining is the only salary i got haha

i also try to dine in restos every other week nalang. magastos pag every week hayayay. :P

By: nina

nina — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:13:34 +0000

Magnetic_rose: It’s because you have awesum skillz! And a hamster.

Cayce: Whoa, that’s a huge amount! And here we are complaining about the Php 1,620 travel tax we pay. Re: Asian perspective — I get what you mean. I like the wealth of advice I can get from the BnA forums, but I also like getting advises from other Filipinos, because for me, they just seem more to my expectations. Whereabouts in the world are you at right now? I’m headed for Peninsular Malaysia this June

Entrepgirl: Ehehe, I’ve been really swamped with work, haven’t had the chance to work on articles for kainpinoy.com ; Enjoy your time with your kid muna, there are still plenty of opportunities for you to travel together in the future

By: entrepgirl

entrepgirl — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:30:41 +0000

hey nina! just visiting! missing your food posts in kainpinoy already. boy, how i wish i could travel as much too. well, having no fixed schedule for work and having a kid makes it not easy to just go and travel whenever i feel like it. plus the budget thing is kind of an obstacle as well. but i’m still wishing, hehehe!

By: cayce

cayce — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:01:49 +0000

One of the reasons why I enjoy this website is that it provides a perspective from an Asian backpacker. I was in Beijing years ago, with an American traveller friend. We had a little debate on a small souvenier to which the seller said, “cheap! Only USD5!” She turned to me, and said, “what is USD5? Nothing! Go for it!” I had to tell her that with USD5, I could get a very decent meal back home!

Can be quite frustrating travelling in other southeast asian countries where locals only want to deal with USD from travellers. We lose so much from the exchange.

As well, for Indonesians, it’s harder for them to travel out of the country, unless they have a registered tax no. because otherwise, everytime they have to step out of the country, they have to pay a departure tax of Rp1,000,000 (about 4,476 pesos)!

By: magnetic_rose

magnetic_rose — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:24:12 +0000

ditto on the doll acquisition add to that the sins of manga and vidoe games — it’s a wonder i even get to travel at all T^T

By: nina

nina — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:46:36 +0000

Anna, you geek! I used to do that, list all my expenses down. But I got lazy, so now I just do that when I travel. This grand plan of yours sound interesting…

By: Anna D.

Anna D. — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:37:43 +0000

I keep track of my daily expenses through this app I d/led for the iPod. Whenever I spend, I update. I set a ceiling budget, with the option of being as detailed as possible – all cash outflows, no matter how big or petty they are, and the bar turns red when I’m near my limit. My monthly budget is less than half (45%) of what I earn, net (holy (*&@$*(@^# hell torture). I eat out for lunch once a week. I hitch a ride to work at least once a week, too. On a yearly approach, I’ve created a pro forma personal income statement, and I have to, have to, have to make my target for the end of the year. I’ve got grand, but shaky plans. Discipline, discipline, discipline.

As for finding other means of income – make money out of your hobbies (not to the point that it becomes obligatory, yuck). And if you’ve got overtime pay, try and attempt to be more “productive.” hehehe

I work to live, yo!!!!!