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[quote=Anonymous]Travelling nanny again-  I should also mention that I grew up in Canada, so fortunately I was able to pay off my student loans in a couple years.  I went to a top university but in Canada the government subsidizes education.  However some of my tips would still work for families, since you have more expenses than I do, you can earn more airmiles if ou get the credit cards/debit cards.  It might take a couple years, but you could accumulate enough points to not have to pay the airfare, and just have to pay accomodation.  For example, I had to buy a gift on Nordstrom.com for a wedding registry.  The gift was $200 (a lot in my budget but anyways!!) with that I earned 5miles per dollar spent just for using the American Airlines eshopping mall, then I earned an additional 2miles per dollar spent because I paid with my AA mastercard.  So for buying that wedding gift I earned 1400 miles.  If you can play the game well, you can earn miles quickly.  An award flight to europe is 35,000 miles so in a couple of years a family really could afford to take a trip together.  You can even use airmiles to pay for your entire vacation.

Anyways sorry to keep posting, I just want everyone to be able to see the world, and want to pass along the information.  I've been to over 50 countries (not bragging, I stayed in a youth hostel in most of them!!) and I could never afford to do that on just my salary alone.  Airmiles has really improved my quality of life.  I dreamed for years to travel to Egypt, Russia, Iceland, etc, and I made it happen.   My salary is not very high, but if you look for them there are lots of ways to travel (even as a family) on a budget.  [/quote]

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