21/03/2018
🛑TIPS to SAVE for your DREAM HOLIDAY
👨👩👦👦Majority of us put off holiday travel due to the cost.
So, feeling the struggle ourselves, we’ve racked our brains for things to do (or not to do) to save the cash for your next holiday.
So here are our tips to help you go on holiday in 12 months.
1) Boil your drinking water at home and take it with you instead of buying bottled water.
2) Take a packed lunch to work instead of buying snacks and food at the office or going out to restaurants for lunch
3) Enjoy a romantic meal and go for a picnic instead of to a restaurant on date night with the girls/boys or other half
4) Save up the shrapnel – all that loose change at the end of every day, adds up. Keep putting it in a piggy bank.
5) Force yourself to budget. Set up an automatic transfer into a savings account when you get paid so you can’t spend the money. Just 50k – 100k a month racks up fast, and you’ll save a lot over the year – Ugx 50,000 x 12 = save 600k or 1.2m.
6) If you live close to work or can skip out one of the stops on your way home, why not walk instead of getting on a taxi to work and exercise while at it?
7) Take advantage of loyalty cards from some supermarkets like Capital Shoppers. If you do your shopping there every week and are accumulating credit point, every once a month, use your credit points and put the shopping budget onto your holiday savings
8) OK, so it’s not really saving but why not dig into your store or garage and sell off your old mobile phones, CDs, DVDs, clothes, shoes and all house items you haven’t used in the past 6 months – these days you can sell anything on Facebook groups – choose the ones that you’re already spending hours on with large numbers – add the sales cash to your holiday stash.
9) Bulk buy food. Lots of shops offer great deals on multi purchases
10) Kill two birds with one stone. Give your liver a rest and save on a night out every other weekend –how much do you spend on a Friday night out or Saturday outing? How much could you save if you cut that to once a month?
11) Make the most of the deals and get half price cinema tickets on Mondays instead of going at the weekend
12) Check those bills. Watch your water usage – when brushing turn off the water, get a bowl in the sink when washing dishes, collect bath water for flushing the toilet… Watch your electricity usage, turn off lights in empty rooms, kitchen and outside, switch off sockets when going to bed…
13) Instead of buying brand new items, look out for sales – there’s some good steals at Flea markets and those are mushrooming up everywhere in Kampala.
With this list of 13 tips and tricks for saving for a holiday, you could save over Ugx 5 million in just one year!
✔Let's help you plan your next holiday.
