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Saving on Vacation!!!

Vacations are always a blast!!! It's something your whole family looks forward to! Why is that? Well...everyone needs a break from reality once in a while. Most people are stressed from school or work and they just need to get away. But most of the time vacations put people farther in debt then they already are. I would personally love to go to Florida or Hawaii, but with six other people in my family it would cost a few thousand dollars just for a week. That doesn't even include plane tickets!!!

I am almost 16 years old and I have only been on a few vacations (only a few days long) because of how expensive they are.

My siblings and I finally came up with an idea so we could go on a new vacation every year.

Two years ago we started to put a certain amount of money in a jar each week. Maybe you are thinking "we don't have any extra money to set aside." Don't even worry about that. Most families go out to eat or go to fast food restaurants at least twice a week. Every time you think of grabbing a bite somewhere...DON'T. Make something at home and put the amount of money that you would have spent eating inside the jar instead. That's what we did. After awhile the money started to add up and within a few months we had enough to go to Wisconsin Dells!!! We are doing the same thing this year. We are putting enough money in a jar so we can all go visit some friends in Iowa for a whole week!!!
This system has worked very well so far, and if we keep it up we may be able to go to Florida by next year! :)

Another idea would be to look for vacation packages online. Websites like Hotwire.com and Bookit.com have lists of hotels and flight packages for a number of destinations.

My Life!!!

Since I`m writing this blog I thought it would be nice for me to tell you some things about me. :) Well, I have been homeschooling since I was in 2nd grade and I will probably continue to home school till I graduate.I would love to be a song writer when I get older! I have been writing songs in my room for about a year with my keyboard that I named Cassie. :) Since that may never happen to me I came up with a backup plan. 

I would like to attend a christian university and major in accounting and minor in music. Either before college or after, I would like to attend a hair styling school. :) But while I`m in high school I like do many different things. I have played volleyball for the past 3 years! I love the sport even though I`m not great at it! Recently I auditioned for the play "Flowers of Algernon." I got the part of Mrs. Nemur and I can`t wait to start practices!!! I have had a lot of pets over the years! I have four dogs, 10 rabbits, 2 guinea pigs, 4 hamsters, 2 rats, a lot of fish, and my sister recently bought a horse. We have had many more than that in the past four years, but all of us kids took care of them so there was no mess or smell or trouble with them. :) I guess you can say that my family and I are pretty much pet experts. :) Another thing I love to do is read!!! I love all those girly books. My favorite series right now is the Gallagher Girls books. The books are amazing and pretty much any teenage girl would love them. I have read four books in the series and I am anxiously waiting for the 5th book to come out!!! That's pretty much a summery of my life! I hope you don`t think I`m too boring. :) I`ll try to post more soon. :)

My First Blog Post Ever!!!!!

This is my first time writing a blog so I am pretty excited!!! I`m not sure about all that I`m going to post on here but I have a few ideas. I would like to post all the stories that I have written on her, but most them don`t have endings yet so be patient. :) I have about five songs that I have written in the past year and I think it would be cool to post them and see what everyone thinks. You know....get some input. That`s all I can think of for now. Hopefully I will think of more...