We paid $195.90 for a $6,343.00 trip! My husband and I just booked a trip to Costa Rica for a week during spring break next year. For our resort, he paid $0. The same accommodations would cost us $1,603 out of pocket. How’d we accomplish such a feat? POINTS! He used some of the pointsContinue reading “We Travel Hacked our Way to a FREE Trip to Costa Rica (Flights + Luxury Resort)”
Category Archives: Lil’ Victories
Lil’ Victory: Turning a Liability into an Asset with Turo
Gathering Dust, Gathering Rust We are a two car household. Since the COVID shutdown in March of 2020, my husband has been working remotely from home. Each weekday morning, I leave for the day in one car while the other sits in our driveway. This has been the case for over a year. Meanwhile, we’veContinue reading “Lil’ Victory: Turning a Liability into an Asset with Turo”
I Made Money Upgrading My Car
“I’ve been gone for a minute now I’m back with the jumpoff” – Lil Kim We’ve have had so many little wins over the past few weeks, so before I get into the story of how I traded in my car for a better car and made a profit, here are some lil’ victories: IContinue reading “I Made Money Upgrading My Car”
Lil Victory: I Cut My Own Hair
I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve gotten my hair done professionally. First, my hair is pretty easy to manage, it’s long and thick with a looser curl pattern. Until the age of 14 I only wore my hair in ponytails. I got my first haircut, in the form of cuttingContinue reading “Lil Victory: I Cut My Own Hair”
Lil’ Victory: Insurance
I took advantage of the holiday yesterday and used it to lower my insurance rate. The biggest victory came from changing my home insurance. With Progressive, I was paying $1,206 a year for coverage. I went to Policygenius and sent them a copy of my policy. They found coverage with a Liberty Mutual company thatContinue reading “Lil’ Victory: Insurance”
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