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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