[LuxLiving]

I'm with threebeansalad.

I can't remember all the little frugal things I did to spend two weeks in Vail/Beaver Creek in 2005, but I did enjoy the trip. Or the week we spent in Mississippi in '06. Did we eat out every meal? No. Did we eat out? Yes. 9 or ten times. Did we have wine w/meals? Yes, some. Did we suffer as we sat in the hot tub? Nope. Did I bemoan that the girl was out of my favorite coconut oil when she gave me my massage? Not too much.

I get to do the travel that I do on very little income because we sacrifice some small comforts. I only have on two pair of socks today and it's icy outside. Yeah, I could turn the heat up a notch, but I won't. Sorry, no sweater on here.

I'm planning on taking Hubster somewhere fantastic for our 25th anniversary if I can. I make my plays on small economies at times and others are on a bigger scale.

Just because I want a candy bar doesn't mean I need one right now and I'm not into always indulging my smaller wants, but that's because I do have some larger ones and choose a little more carefully in order to actually achieve them. For us, me staying home to educate the last two was most important at the time. I'm about ready to pop back off to the working world and no, I haven't been totally mindlessly idle in the intervening years.

You'll find most here are not rinsing out their baggies or separating their two-ply, but are about finding small ways to spend smarter in order to be debt free and invest in wise ways that will make the very most of the dollars they do come across.