The Budget Breakdown continues

The first thing on today's budget update is Laundry. No big budget buster here, but it does need to be addressed. Some RV'ers won't travel without a washer and dryer in their rig. All of the new RV's we have looked at have W/D hook ups in them. Or is that space better suited for storage? Only you can answer that question.

Myself, I want the storage space. But that's just me. Not right or wrong, just what I want. According to the BOSS, she thinks she can do our laundry for $30.00 per month There's only 2 of us and I'm no laundry expert ( I'm not even allowed in the laundry room here at home) but I think $30.00 a month is a little low. We'll just wait til we get on the road and find out and adjust the budget if needed.

Another easy budget item is postage. If doing your banking on line you don't have any checks to mail, Posting pictures on line lets the family know where you are and where you've been. So why is postage even on the budget? Well, grand kids like to get birthday cards. Even adult kids like to get birthday cards in the mail and they all need stamps. Its even fun to send out a post card once in a while. Maybe you won't spend $5.00 a month on postage, but hey maybe you could send me a card.

OK here it comes.

The no one answer will be correct EVER. Phone and Internet.

We've looked at all kinds of phones and all kinds of calling plans. You can get the latest and greatest phone on the market and pay out the Wazoo for it and it will probably work as your internet hot spot also.

Barb and I both have dumb phones, We wouldn’t know what to do with a smart phone. We went to Best Buy and talked to a salesperson and she told us we could keep our dumb phones and buy a Mifi hotspot and have internet wherever we were going. I guess only time will tell. You can go with a Straight Talk phone or one of the others like it and really put the squeeze on your phone budget. You can also use the campgrounds Wifi if they have it. Most of them do have it and its free.

You could search out the nearest McDonald's or Starbucks and use the free Wifi there if you don't use the internet that much. So for us we will use the dumb phones and a Verzion Mifi Hotspot for about $150.00 a month. Of course rates are changing all the time, they probably changed when I sat down to start typing this. Lets only hope the prices came down and not up