"We quit our jobs and booked $70k world cruise around for our entire family"

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A couple "sick of asking permission to go on holiday" quit their corporate jobs and spent $70k on a five-month cruise around the world for their entire family.  Tiffany Baker, 38, and her husband, Mark, 40, packed in their roles in finance in April 2019 and decided to 'live life their way'.   They decided to pull their daughters - Giuletta, nine, Penelope, seven and Delia, six - out of school and embark on the adventure of a lifetime.  The epic cruise calling at 50 ports in 21 countries - including Australia, Africa, Spain and Singapore.  The pair will homeschool their children while they are working remotely.  In December, the family will fly from their home in Terre Haute, Indiana, US, to Prague, Czech Republic, to visit the Christmas markets and then Marseilles, France, where the cruise will set sale.  Tiffany and Mark have splashed out $70k for two bedrooms on the cruise - and say the cost includes activities on board, food and drink - and have also given themselves a $10k spending allowance.

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00:00 I just spent $70,000 for my family of five to take a cruise next year.

00:06 And before you go freaking out on me, let's run some numbers and let's talk some details.

00:12 I booked two rooms at $35,000 a piece on the cruise ship.

00:16 And then I'm going to budget around $10,000 to fly to the starting point for the cruise.

00:27 And then let's throw in another $10,000 just for some random shenanigans, right?

00:33 So we're at $90,000 all in for this trip for my family of five.

00:39 Our daughters are six, seven and nine years old.

00:42 $90,000 divided by the 116 nights that our family's going to be on that cruise ship comes

00:48 to around $775.

00:51 Let's divide that by five.

00:53 When you divide that number by five, it comes to $155 per person per day to take the trip.

01:00 Now let's think of the things I won't be spending money on because I'll be on a cruise ship

01:05 in 2025 for at least four months.

01:09 I won't be getting one Amazon package or six per day.

01:15 I'm also canceling our subscriptions.

01:17 So no more Disney plus no more Netflix.

01:21 We're going to save a lot of money on this trip.

01:25 No more random shopping at Target or Walmart or Barnes and Noble where I spent $150 yesterday.

01:33 I will no longer be paying for someone to clean my house.

01:38 I won't be getting a rental deposit on the first of the month and then looking up flights

01:42 on where we could go on vacation like I do every other month because we will be on vacation.

01:49 I won't be spending money on clothes, on books, on toys, on life in general.

01:56 We're each in our family of five taking one backpack for the four month trip and full

02:03 disclosure we plan on it being much longer than that.

02:07 Our flights are going to be one way flights and then we're just going to see where life

02:10 takes us from there because I can't imagine what life looks like on the other side of

02:15 this.

02:16 We will of course experience homeschooling our daughters which has always been a goal

02:20 for us.

02:21 So this is forcing us into it.

02:23 We are homeschooling from a cruise ship all over the world.

02:28 Oh I'm also going to add the cruise ship does have kids club included in the price.

02:34 So we made sure that was a part of this puzzle as well.

02:40 Taking a world cruise has been on my husband and I's bucket list for a long time.

02:45 We always thought that we would take a cruise like this around the entire world whenever

02:51 our girls graduated high school.

02:53 And we just had this epiphany this year like why the heck are we waiting?

02:58 Just not.

02:59 I'm not a waiter.

03:00 If I have a goal I make it happen.

03:04 And so we are making it happen.

03:07 It's going to be awesome.

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