A Luxury Life On A Low Income

When I initially started working, I thought there was no way I’d lead any type of luxurious lifestyle for years. Maybe even decades! I assumed I couldn’t afford gym memberships, that I’d need to stay in cheap motels, that airplane flights would need to be a rare and infrequent present to myself or from someone else.

Luckily, my dad taught me some tricks when he found out I was doing yoga exercises off a $5 DVD from CVS, residing in fleebag motels and shelling out too much on airfare.

Credit Cards

Get one. And seriously, don’t mess around with making payments on time. Simply buy the things you would have got anyways with cash, but make sure to definitely put that stuff on your card! Credit cards can come with wonderful benefits such as building up miles with certain airlines, and also vacation points with some chain resorts like Marriotts and Embassy Suites.

My dad brought us on a ski getaway to Lake Tahoe where we stayed at a resort that typically ran at $1,000 per night! He got it for $400 per night due to his points on his credit card.

Free Gym Trials

Think those up to date machines are only for the wealthy? Think again. When I was just starting out as an unestablished voice teacher in a new town and had no money flowing in, my good friend informed me that she had been going to gyms for three months, and hadn’t paid a penny! What the deal is is that, many gyms offer two and even 3 week free trials. My pal had just been hopping around. Since most of my job requires being on my butt all day teaching students how to sing better, I seriously needed good workouts when I could get them in between singing lessons. So I took my friend’s advice and quickly found myself in 4 star spas in great fitness centers, even working with professional trainers, for no money at all.

Blog about what you love

I have a pal who teaches high school kids biology by day, and writes for an eco conscious cosmetics company by night. Why? Because she needs some way to fund her makeup addiction. She wrote into one of her favorite cosmetics sites, offering to blog for them at no cost. She spends maybe an hour a week creating a couple of posts for them, and in the meantime she reaches out to beauty manufacturers she loves, asking for free products and promising to write about them in return. It is possible to do this for just about any industry! Restaurants, hotels, apparell, pet toys, you name it!