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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're flying to another state, then renting a car for a road trip.

I'm looking for some tips to save money. For instance, I heard that you can bring a packet of oatmeal on a flight and ask for hot water and a coffee cup to make it. You can go to grocery stores and make sandwiches for lunch instead of eating out.

So stuff like that - super cheap - anything to do with flights, being on the road, staying in cheap places, etc.  We're already way over budget just on the flights :([/quote]

If you are going to eat out, eat out at lunch as lunch prices are usually cheaper than dinner prices.  Eat breakfast in the motel room and make sandwiches for dinner.  If you are really strapped, sleep in the car one or two nights.  Stay in hostels (although if you are a family- a cheap motel will be cheaper).  Motel 6, Super 8 - hotels like that.  Super 8 has breakfast- make up a few few peanut butter sandwiches for snacks at the same time.  Look for fund things to do that are free/inexpensive.  Hiking, go to the public library to find out what is happening, church dinners and fish fry..........

Find friends who live where you are going and see if you can stay with them.  We frequently host people from all over, so we have places we can stay all over too.

State in one place and find an apartment on Home Away.  That is what we did in London and Paris and a week cost what two nights in a medium/cheap hotel would have cost.   If you are going to a large city,investigate a week pass on their public transit- that can save you money- no rental car too.

Planning things out helps save money than trying to do it on the fly.  [/quote]

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