My personal goal “leave the country at least once/year”…preferably going to a place you’ve never been before. By the time you retire, you will have seen a great many places.

In your 20′s if you can get a job that requires international travel, that’s the ultimate frugal way to see places and meet people. Granted, most of these positions are high stress and allow little time for sightseeing, but they have helped me eliminate places I visited that I would not want to go back to. For example, I toured the Pacific for one job..now CHINA is on the list, but don’t need to go back to Korea, Singapore or Taiwan. After years of doing it, you can get burnt out. No one likes spending their weekends (free time) in airports, but it’s great to do for a few years when you’re single.

Last tip if you’re still kid free is to prioritize the exotic/far away vacations first. We did very little domestic travel before kids. We knew that someday, we wouldn’t want to be giving our kid’s malaria pills and travel for 26 hours straight.

At the moment, the most I get for a holiday is a trip out to my parents house in the country, but instead of moaning, I’ve started to relish it. It’s quiet, I get waited on by my lovely Mummy and I can go for long country walks or quad bike rides – for free!!

Your blog is fantastic (I found you through Single Broke Female) and I’m going to add it to my Blogs I Read if you don’t mind?

I have a spreadsheet where I’ve split my savings into different categories including ‘holiday’. Every time there’s a spare tenner going, I transfer it over to one of the ‘accounts’ and leave it there. As far as I’m concerned, money that’s earmarked no longer exists so can’t be spent.