rewrite this title How to Make Money While Traveling (expert advice)

[00:02:14] Ramit: Nice. Okay. So you both went to Paris and Lisbon. How long was the trip in order for this budget to be 2,000 bucks?

[00:02:26] Annie: It was 10 days, 11 days.

[00:02:29] Ramit: Okay. Is this a common recurrence, like you pick a number and then you end up spending more than you had planned?

[00:02:35] Annie: We actually generally don’t even pick a number. We don’t really save for our vacation. That’s part of the problem. We usually spend as we go. We’re pretty frugal. I usually book hotels last minute, so it’s way discounted, and we take trains. We don’t really spend a lot of money in hotels.

[00:03:04] Emery: I thought that it was a reasonable budget, but it would probably be hard to stay within those confines. But I figured let’s give it a shot. If nothing else, it was a challenge, and let’s see if we can do it once we get there. Our commitment to the challenge tended to fade at times on both ends. We were there for a Taylor Swift concert.

[00:03:24] That’s the reason why we went to Lisbon to begin with, and so the trip wasn’t really in the budget anyway, but we had Taylor Swift tickets, so we’re like, well, I guess we’re going to Europe. But I think she brought it the point of the beer. So we’d order a meal, which you get a table full of fresh seafood for $60 in Lisbon. It’s amazing. And then I’d order a 5-dollar beer, and the 5-dollar beer was the thing that would later be mentioned.

[00:03:53] For me, that’s one of the themes of why we reached out to you on the show from my end, was there’s an inconsistency in terms of when we choose to feel tension and express tension to each other. And sometimes I just don’t know when it’s going to happen, and it comes out of nowhere, and it’s like, okay, I didn’t know that that beer or was that bottle of tequila we’re buying for this party going to be a problem? Sometimes I don’t know.

[00:04:18] Ramit: All right. What’s the problem?

[00:04:22] Annie: Well, now we’re over budget.