A Honeymoon on The Silver Change or Free Vacations For Life
Doesn’t “Free Vacation For Life” sound pretty good? OK, so maybe not free vacation to an all inclusive resort, but a week long trip to a nice beach with all food, beverages, and gas paid for is freakin’ awesome. How do we do it, you ask?
How It Started
Well it started when we were about 16 and 17 (my wife and I, that is). We knew that we were going to get married, and we knew we were going to be young when we did it, but we wanted to take an awesome Honeymoon. So we started saving change. I saved the silver change in one 5 gallon water jug and she saved the pennies in another.
Also, I began to ask for $1 in quarters with every purchase I made (where did you think Wachovia got the idea)? Over the next 3 years until our wedding, we saved almost $4000 in silver change alone and had one hell of a week at an all inclusive resort in Mexico. I don’t know how much there was in pennies because I hate them.
Free Vacation for Life
So, save your change and add one dollar with every purchase, and you’ll have close to $1200 per year. That’s plenty for a nice vacation. I guess the word “free” is not quite true, but at least it feels free because it’s not coming out of your bank accounts.
Although, if you put the money into a High-Yield Savings Account, you could make $42 a year at HSBC’s current rate of 3.5%.