How we can afford to travel so much! ✈️
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- We just got back from ANOTHER trip! So before we left last week, I cleared the air and answered all your questions regarding how we can afford to travel so much this year. I also share what our vacations are, how much we paid for them, and why we are going on them!
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I think it’s really amazing that around March I started learning about LDS and I found this channel by chance and I’m really loving their teachings. I notice that a lot of the things going on in my life I can see the way things line up. Like I meet someone, that I originally was not going to meet and it turned out to completely turn my life around, and I can just see how the randomness is lining up.
Hahahaha you left newlyweds with five kids hahahaha you are a inspiration
Loved this. We had some intense financial goals (paying off our house in 5 years while my husband is in grad school). However, my husband, who is a chaplain candidate, was speaking with a chaplain about our goals and he told us something really interesting that changed our view. He said that family vacations were the number one predictor (if I remember correctly) of how close families will be long term. It really made us think about the importance of prioritizing fun vacations for our family, rather than just prioritizing finances only. Obviously doing what you can afford and fun can be cheap, but vacations are important and good to make a priority. I'm excited to look into some of the tips and would love more.
Memories matter! That's for sure!
Lisa Woodward I totally agree with this! My amazing mother took us on a lot of trips, and they are my best childhood memories! And my family is still very close!
I love that y’all get to travel. No explanation needed here.
Italy is my dream trip. I admire you for saving and being frugal to get the things you want to do. I enjoy your videos very much!
Late to your video and I want to say thanks for your perspective on fear. My husband and I build and fly airplanes and after two kids I now feel frozen at times by fear to do things. I needed to hear this to move forward. As you said "faith in God, not in the world". I will take my fears to God and embrace life and the opportunity to have adventure. Thanks so much!!!
Please do a video on how you prepare (your spreadsheets/lists/other stuff) for when leaving your kids in the care of others! Would love to see this!! ☺👍🏼
Noted, thank you!
I just love you! We also like to plan our year in advance, helps us budget and plan travel. Taking our kids on first plane travel beginning of next year- love watching your videos!
How can they afford to go on vacation ECT...?? Creative financing, hard work. Just in 2020 purchased their dream cabin in Huntsville Utah for a cheap $1,700,000.00. Selling their Draper home on market for nearly the exact amount cabin cost. Purchase new Draper home that is the mystery fixer upper. Do not know how much they paid for this new house yet. So what??? People these two work their bottoms off! They really know and have learned how to work the system! You can not take it with you, so IMO, I applaud their creative financing!
“Heaven knows I’ll blog about it” you are golden 😂
I am Puetorrican and I Looove my beatiful Island. I'm so glad (and proud) you liked your trip here.
The serenity prayer is God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Hope this helps :)
Looks like Bubbas massage will lead to baby #6! 😂
Hahahaha
L E it does!!! And then 7 &8!!
how do you budget spending for trips if you have never been on this type of trip before? Whether it's a new type like a cruise, or a new place like Italy where you don't know the cost of things. I am always unsure what to budget for spending while I am on the trip (food, cabs, etc)
If it's a cruise, we always add $1000 on top of the cruise and flight price. Otherwise just ask around to get a feel for what others have spent!
Laura Wallace I'm not very good at living frugally (maybe that's why I'm here! :) But I love to travel. I'm sure there are many travel sites that give this kind of info, but I've found TripAdvisor very helpful- not just for budgeting, but to find the best stuff to do! I've never booked thru them, but I choose hotels based on reviews & have always been happy. There are reviews for restaurants & activities/excursions. You can gauge how much to budget- price points are usually listed.
I make a little "restaurant guide" full of options so we can choose what sounds good each day & are never hunting for a restaurant. I make notes on each one, including prices, some menu choices (especially items that several people recommend,) if dress code is required, days/times of operation, address & phone # (helpful for taxi drivers,) etc. We've found great places to eat that we otherwise would never have discovered! (We also ask locals for recommendations- we ate at the BEST Cajun place in the Virgin Islands due to a tip from a local!)
Don't forget to plan for tips! Some all-inclusive resorts will state that tips are included. I'm not sure- we've only done this twice (in Mexico) but it seemed the waiters may not be getting the tips? We tipped waiters & housekeeping in cash, and seemed to get better service than those with A-I wristbands who trusted the hotel to disperse the "included" tips. Maybe something to research if you're doing this? (We decided not to do A-I again, bc we prefer to try local restaurants & experience the culture.) In countries where English is not the primary language, we usually ask the hotel concierge to make dinner reservations at the place we choose, and tip them well at the end of our stay.
I've found useful info on Tripadvisor that makes our trips so much better! Things like a suggestion to request a table near the edge of a balcony & the time to arrive to experience an amazing sunset! I've learned when an excursion that sounded fun is actually a big rip-off. It takes some time to research, but it's worth it! Then your trip is stress free, you don't show up to find something closed, & I've found reviews to be pretty spot-on. I HAVE noticed that ideas of what is "expensive" are a bit relative. When we did all-inclusive, we chose this option bc several reviewers commented that drinks & food were crazy expensive when ordering ala carte. We were surprised to find that we didn't think so. Yes, you do pay a bit more for a diet Coke, but you're paying for convenience. At least at this resort, the food wasn't that pricy in our opinion! So take reviews w/a grain of salt, I guess. But it gives you an idea of what to plan for.
If travelling internationally, I'll also do research on the country I'm visiting. I've found that proper etiquette and tipping expectations (who/how much to tip) vary. We travel to Mexico a lot, and I didn't know until researching that grocery clerks accept tips, but taxi drivers are usually not tipped by locals (we still tip them- again, I'm not good at being frugal, I err on the side of tipping too much!) Many foreigners don't know that Mexican waiters often won't bring your check until you request it- they consider it rude, like they're asking you to leave (I've read a lot of complaints from people who didn't know this!) Knowing these little things about the culture/expectations, makes for a much better trip. Happy travels!
Jordan Page FunCheapOrFree I came across your videos a few days ago and I am hooked! You are such a inspiration. I've been watching tons of your videos.
silvrgurrl * This is, by far, the best travel advice I've ever come across- what great ideas!! Keeping a list of restaurant options?? Writing down all the numbers and addresses?? Genius!! Thank you so much for taking the time to share your tips and tricks with the rest of us!!! Happy travels :)
I love stories like this. Hard work pays off! We followed the Dave Ramsey program and pd off 30k in debt and cashed flowed our ten yr anniversary to Maui. Never would have thought we could do it. Now saving for our dream home! I love how you say it's the small purchases that hold us back! So true.
Watching this again now is so surreal
Where in Puerto Rico did you go? You should link all of the travel trips/packages you’ve taken and loved!!
YOU are beautiful and a really great mom and wife! You're also a complete Ninja with finances. Keep up the good work and God bless you and your family!
watched this one year later- thank you for inspiring me to be less afraid!
OMG JORDAN!! I just found you yesterday and got addicted to your videos! But ..surprise surprise ...I AM a Gate1 guide!! I am so happy to hear you came with us to Italy!! Who was your Tour Manager?
Who was your Tour Manager in Italy? Francesco or Alessandro?
Great video! Thank you for talking through all the way and THEN answering questions. I really appreciate that!
Thanks Laura!
I'm new to you. I LOVE YOU, you are the cutest. I love your videos so much, and I love your outlook (and I agree, and do the same). I'm an international disaster response nurse and travel all over the world to sketchy places (just went to Mosul, Iraq 2 times) and I trust God and know HE knows the plan for my life. I enjoy life, and go with the flow.
Love this video and what you said about traveling and praying to God. By the way, I love Cafe Rio! I had them for the first time when we visited Salt Lake this past summer and they have the best horchata!
Love your philosophy on living life in faith over fear. To me there is no other way to live. Of course I believe we should practice wisdom but living in fear isn’t really living life at all.
January in Utah is the best though you are right when you say traveling has a tendency of being cheaper that month. Great financial tips though. Also a family travel blogger so really appreciated learning from you. Also a fellow Utahan originally though now we live in Tennessee for greater access to the East coast to travel.
Also we love cruises for budgeting, it is easy to predict how much one will spend for the whole trip well in advance.
Great video.
Gotta budget your eye back up.
Also you don't need to get a spray tan if you're going on a cruise you can always get the tan from sun because it's free
Love your open personality!!!! So don't apologize for it!
jordan you are such an inspiration. you work really hard you have 8 kids run a few businesses and have so much on..basically you can afford to go on vacaton and you should NOT have to justify whether you can or cant go on holiday.it is no one elses business where and what you do with your llife..dont feel like you have to justify it sweet..you are amazng and soooo deserve a break.xx
Love all the great advice! Travel is my favorite way to spend $. I’d rather save up and spend $ traveling than spend it on nick nacks or stuff. Of course I got out of debt 1st!
We travel cheap too and day trips too I use coupons and find free fun things to do too... I love to travel
I really enjoy watching your channel....I've learn so much...thanks for doing this for people like me to do better ...
Our last vacation we took kids to free campground in northern Virginia area no showers just outhouse but for week and us and nature it was awesome experience. Saw wildlife did hiking fishing in creeks berry picking too...
It cost my family of six $300 to camp in wild for week. Neighbor guy gave my kid big tent for mowing the lawn .. so it was easy vacation and fun
My fiance and I are getting married November 2018. I'm 19 and he's 20 we both still live at home and just started saving up for deposits, honeymoon, wedding expenses (my parents are actually overall paying for the wedding, bless them.) Etc. Do you have any tips for us on saving for deposits and such on an apartment or any advice on how to plan a honeymoon on a budget?
I love to travel! Travel deals are my favorite! Thanks for the info!
'And heaven knows I'll blog about it' you're hilarious 😂
Haha thanks Leah!
Hi Jordan. I love your videos! I'm single and my kids are grown now but your advice is
still useful. I also love that we have similar values for raising children 😃❤️
I'm so glad I watched this; ever since I became a mom i have so many fears but i like your perspective on not having fears and just having faith in God, thanks so much for sharing. P.S. how much sleep do you get on average? My 3 month old still wakes up at night and it's rough sometimes :P
Ahh! I’m on the Oregon coast & when you said she was little & easy to “pack around” I went “yep! She’s from Oregon!! Lol 😊
I aspire to be like you .
Love you and your beautiful family.
One day, hubby and I will travel the world!!!! 🙌🏽🤷🏽♀️ thanks for all the tips
Love this video!!! I live in Florida and Zika had a spreading zone here in South Florida. Anyway, last year my family of 4 were able to take 2 vacations. That was a big deal for us and it took a lot of planning. Thanks for your videos!!!
You favor Melissa Gorga so much in this video!
Love everything you just said. I am and my family are believers. And also about anything can happen anywhere.
So I just signed up on gate1!.
Question. So when you tell your kids "if you will be good, and listen to your guardian and behave, I will do such and such for you", what happens if they dont behave, slip-up do something bad? Do you tell them they ruined the chance for themselves or you give them an opportunity to rehabilitate? :)
I am going to cry because you were the break I needed in my life
Our hotel the Caribbean Hilton in Puerto Rico was beautiful! It had a private beach. The side of the resort actually had a graffiti wall but it added to the beauty
Just found you again. I remember seeing you ages ago looking for budgeting tips. We have six kids (older 2 have left home) and we are finally in a place we can go on a family cruise too for my 40th. I'm super looking forward to it too, cheapest way to travel!! Wish i had credit card airpoints though. Hope you in enjoy your trip and i look forward to watching some of your videos.
Happy early birthday!! So exciting!
You r so right about God & having faith. I just found u today. I wish I had yr attitude & know how. Happy anniversary, have a ball on vacation !
So glad you found me! Welcome to the Freeb family!
It sounds like there two kinds of moms the kind that isn't anxious to leave their kids on their own with babysitters and the one that is. Well there is a different kind, I am a mom that is not anxious I know my kids will be well taken care of, but I believe that children need their parents in their first yrs. And should the separating process on their own. And not be pushed to do so. I believe that for their emotional and mental development it is crucial to be available to them through their first years of life. Since they are programmed to be close to their parents for their security and well being. the human baby is born 18 months prematurely and only at around the age of five cognitive processes start to develop so the child can understand the absence of a parent. I personally believe that even than a child needs to be in a position to say if he wants or not to stay alone with someone else. That child didn't ask to be born we asked for that. So although my children see my parents every day and are close to them my first born alone chooses to spend the night with them. The small one does not. I believe that pushing the child prematurely may cause not just a strain on the child but also on the relationship we have with him.
bat-sheva gilin Oh for heavens sake. You are ridiculous!
Love this video! Because you talk about praying and having faith. You're totally right! We can't control anything!! We can only trust God and have faith..
I agree about not being scared as well. I am totally checking out gate 1
i wish i could find someone to come to my house an watch all my 4 kids for a week.
video suggestion: managing money while having little kids.
lori craven watch her spending freeze video we have 3 kids and started it when she first posted it and are still doing the spending freeze, the first week was a bit hard since we didn't plan we just started our spending freeze once we got done watching the video lol we noticed that we saved over $400 in one month.
Wow that's amazing! And thanks for sharing!
It works and we don't feel deprived because on the Sundays and Mondays we will eat out for dinner and shop for groceries...and we even noticed our grocery bill went from about $150 a week plus $100 eating out to $100 every 2 weeks on groceries because im planning our meals in advance and using what we have instead of going to the store everyday. Thanks so much for that video it was awesome and a good challenge for us. My husband and I watched ur video and we're like let's do it and cheering eachother on when we wanted to give up lol
which credit card gives the most points that you can use for anything?
Elly is my name
I am 68, never been out of the USA. Too scared, & my son is in Japan. I’m just an old lady now, lol, but I’m just a chicken, but I enjoy life anyway
I'm so glad you enjoy life! That's so important!
Kind of amazed at how afraid to travel Americans are.... This isn't the first time I've heard this kind of fear expressed and it's very confusing to me as a non American.
Cruises are just known for being high traffic areas for human sex trafficking and then when you add in the element of not knowing as much about a foreign place you just become more at risk I think. Idk I have anxiety so these thing affect me more than the average person.
God Bless your sharing so much!
I'm so happy for you!
you are amazing ! i love your attuitude to life ! thank you for showing us and sharing and teaching us to be wise stewards !
I appreciate that so much, thank you!
Omg my kids watch your friends channel like crazzzy!!!!
When you say “be afraid of the flu” and now we are afraid of the flu 😷 🤧🙈
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
hope you guys enjoy your trip have fun xx
Thanks Elizabeth!
try trafalgar omg it is so good. 15 days in Germany for 2 for $6000
When there's a will, there's a way ;)
Love April and Davey! Just watched the girls trip vlog to Hawaii!
They are the best!
How did u pick yr kid’s names ? They r different but cute.
In January I booked a round trip flight to Rome from Illinois for less than $400 😱 I will be heartbroken if it’s cancelled due to COVID.
If you need tips on Italy, let me know! My hubby and I travel there every year as he's from Tuscany. I've learn some helpful things over our many trips.
Jennifer Sabatini please share!
Cheyenne Homesley there are numerous depending on where you are going but always bring tissues everywhere you go. The bathrooms are hit and miss and almost never have toilet paper when you are in the small towns. Take a crossbody bag that's light and only bring essentials. I used to pack a ton more than I needed with "just in case" items. Florence is my favorite city in the world and the Uffizzi museum is amazing. They have good pizza in Florence but the best is in the south. It's better to answer specific questions since there is so much.
Jennifer Sabatini I'm going to Sorrento in Oct this year and will be there for 2 weeks. Other than the Amalfi Coast, what other areas should I visit while there? i went on a cruise last year and was in Sorrento for only a few hours (7 hours), so I didn't get to see much as I didn't go on any excursions. next year i want to visit the Abruzzo region and Switzerland.
Farmer Ted love Sorrento!! Pompeii is awesome, as is Rome. I haven't been to Naples, but it can be a little dangerous there. Are you going all over or are you limited to that area? Cinque Terra is awesome, I recommend taking the boat to travel between the lands there. There is also the Blue Grotto.
Yay thank you!!
Love Gate 1 Travel!
Is there a link to the company you used to book your vacation?
What credit card do you recommend in order to get miles and pay for plane tickets?
i'm just wondering about the kids being in AZ wen u went on 1 of yor trips? U said they had fun w/the cousins & moved around from relative to relative. But how did this wrk b/c in one of yor vlogs u mentioned yor family dosn't hav sleepovrs even w/ family?
I like that ,prayer!
I remembered I left my little girl with my Gradma for me and my husband to go yo Mexico just the two of us and our both sides of the family were making us feel like bad parents lol I actually love to travel the 3 of us
if you go to San Juan only they obviously price everything for tourists
Yes! Pay off pressing debt first!
Wow!!! You are my inspiration to save now!!! Thanks
Aw thanks Myka!
amazing, l love it
I am having baby number 2 soon and very nervous because I won't get any help from families. Can you make a video on what to expect to have another child? And tips and tricks?
Oh boy yes I'll add it to my list!
Jordan, would you mind sharing who your travel agent is?
Ture ! There is thing we can't control
I love hearing about how you can afford to travel so much! I really want to travel all over the place in the future. It seems like there's such a negative connotation to traveling a lot -- but if you can afford it, why not live your life more fully, right??
Go to bali indonesia for next next trip, youre gonna loveeeeee it
Your hat is so cute!
Are you saving for retirement at all?
We are!
I would leave my kids (5 1/2 kids) in a heartbeat but my hubby struggles. I'm working on him so we can go to Europe alone.
It's so hard! It really is! Just take it small at first, baby steps - weekend trips, then work up to the big ones!
What about flying? youre not worried on long flights at all?
I'm really not! Flying is safer than driving, after all ;P
Cool. I want to plan a trip to Italy soon:) Its nice you are at a point where you can do more now. Have a great trip! By the way, how did you go about finding your house?
What credit card do you use for earning airline miles? I've been looking and looking for the best one.
How do you like the scoot case? I'm in the UK and they don't have the greatest reviews. How have they held up for you?
We loved them at first, but they really haven't held up.
So if you want to take a trip or own vehicles, just screw the system and call it a business expense? These "businesses" are going to have a rude awakening now that those tax laws have changed.
damn right girl enjoy you earned it
love u Jordan!! :-)
Thanks so much!
Ha ha ha oh man I love you you are so my kind of person you make me laugh:)
Aw thanks Caitlin!
I'M SO SAD YOU'RE NOT COMING TO SPAIN 😢😢😢
where in Spain were you planing to come (I live in Madrid) and btw there is not such a terrorist alert, nobody is really expecting terrorist attacks
Yeah it turned out to be nothing, but honestly, one of the couples we were going with got really nervous about it which is why we changed. Just didn't want to throw them under the bus. I definitely want to go there someday!
I Agree!!! I do not fear man...or this world...I trust God ♡
I love your carpet.
♡ God grant me the Serenity to Accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change tbe things I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference ♡
We also use this and the 3rd Step prayer in N.A.
It's a very special and important one 💜
13 YearZ and counting 🙏
Live life to the fullest ✨️
Faith over fear! Enjoy the world 🌎
this is my life!
hope.