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\n- 2a+2c approx. $1200<\/b> a week.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Save up, then travel in small stints.<\/b> You don’t have to eat a cow all
\nat once, neither do you need to travel all of Australia in one go!<\/span><\/li>\n- Sometimes Caravan Park’s will trade accommodation<\/b> for
\ndoing odd jobs around the park. Often they only need help in peak seasons so it can be a win – win.<\/span><\/li>\n- You
\ncan register with Workaround Australia<\/b>, and there’s a book that helps
\nyou with where work is, what state has what and help on getting work.\u00a0 We’ve had some success with it.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.travellingaustraliawithkids.com\/images\/xuluru-kids-on-way.jpg.pagespeed.ic.Z1SYkdrgor.jpg\")
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\n- $1500<\/b> – 2 adults, 2 teens,\u00a01 toddler, 2 dogs –\u00a08mths<\/span><\/li>\n
- For food, fuel and accommodation costs. Phone, internet, insurances ect will really vary depending set ups. But food, fuel and accommodation should be easier to compare. With a note of free \/ low cost \/ caravan accomodation %.<\/span><\/li>\n
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\ncan do it on any budget.<\/b> It just depends on what you want to see and do.
\nBuy a tent, some simple camping gear and go for small trips. The overall
\nexperience is still the same whether you have a luxurious expensive van or a tent.\u00a0 The point is you just have to do it otherwise there will always be a reason not to.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n- It
\nall depends on what setup you want to travel in<\/b> as how much money you
\nneed upfront. Travelling wise living expenses are a lot cheaper than in a
\ntraditional house but it’s a good idea to have a decent stash you can
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\n- 2 adults, 2 teens $2500<\/b> per week, caravan parks, 7+ tanks of fuel a week, food, activities, moving fast lap in 5 months. (Not including a new turbo after breakdown and extra costs with that)<\/span><\/li>\n
- We just free camp 99% of the time<\/b> and when things are tough and money tight, we don’t move until money has replenished a little. You can use the <\/span>TAWK Spreadsheet <\/span><\/a>to keep a track of things.<\/span><\/li>\n
- We spent the money upfront to be self sufficient<\/b>. This means we can free camp most of the time, we prob spend $300 a week at the most on accommodation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n- Look for station work<\/b> as usually accommodation, food, power and water are
\nincluded as well as a wage. It’s been the best way for us to save as there’s nothing
\nto spend money on when you are there. Also there is the Seasonal work (up north anyway), so we travel when the dork dries up.<\/span><\/li>\n- 2 Adults, 3 Children 10, 9, 5 – approx $1500<\/b>. This is for food generally for a week,a tank of fuel and possibly an activity or dinner out.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Restructure
\nyour mortgage to be a line of credit<\/b> and therefore you use the equity in
\nyour house to draw on when you need it while travelling. Then just
\nmanage the costs of doing things, don’t treat it like a short term
\nholiday but a lifestyle that, like being at home, needs to be planned.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.travellingaustraliawithkids.com\/images\/xkalbarri-wave-fam.jpg.pagespeed.ic.vNeljjKf1e.jpg\")
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\n- Approx $1300 a week. 7 of us. (2 adults 5 kids). That includes fuel for car and bus, site costs (no Caravan Parks unless needed in specific towns), food, subscriptions, storage, phone, Starlink etc.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Costs
\nare pretty easy to predict<\/b>. Once you’re set up, there’s fuel
\n(calculated on consumption rate and distance), accommodation rates (if
\nany) and your groceries etc tend to be on par with normal life. We tend
\nto set up some work at a suitable location,
\nthen travel towards it. We’re in a camper trailer but having been out
\nin it for a year or more would dearly like to move up to a bus. Will
\ntake a caravan if funding is restricted. No matter what rig you choose,
\nyou’re sacrificing flexibility in another area.<\/span><\/li>\n- We do a lot of free camping<\/b> heaps cheaper on the budget. Showgrounds are great to usually really well priced too!<\/span><\/li>\n
- Budgets
\nvary from one person to the next<\/b> but I
\nhave allowed around $1000 a week. Free camp as much as
\npossible.Get Wiki Camps app. Our children are 3 and 6.<\/span><\/li>\n- Free activities for the kids,<\/b> then once a month we do paid amusements. Food
\nis the same as it was at home. Fuel is your biggest expense as every
\none says do shorter trips with van than go site seeing whilst free
\ncamping. If staying at Caravan Park it will cost heaps more. We don’t go without, we are just smarter what we spend money on.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.travellingaustraliawithkids.com\/images\/xwangi.jpg.pagespeed.ic.GdggKJ5WO2.jpg\")
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\n- We
\nhave found that about $1400 a week is a good estimate<\/b>. This is with a
\nmix of free and site stays, also doing a bit of the tourist stuff. We
\nhave been on the road 9 months and upgraded from a Expanda to a full van
\nand have never looked back, virtually
\nno set up. We work and stay in nice places for a few months. We found
\nthat there are so any different set ups and everyone is having a great
\ntime regardless.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n- 2 adults, 1 child (4yo) and a dog $1300<\/b> approx, this includes EVERYTHING from bills, food, fuel, accommodation, activities, alcohol, shopping, repairs, every single cent<\/span><\/li>\n
- When
\nI am travelling I look for “value”<\/b>. If you pick
\nyour entertainment and caravan parks carefully, you won’t need to pay
\nfor the kids – sometimes you can negotiate with the smaller parks. We stopped
\nfor work in a rural area and they let
\nus park the van on site and that way the kids can be entertained by
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\n- Get Wiki Camps app to start with.\u00a0<\/b>You can pretty much budget your
\naccommodation trip using this app. Ideas about spending money per week is
\nnear impossible because everyone has a different lifestyle and interests.<\/span><\/li>\n- $1500 for us to. 2 Adults and 2 Children.<\/span><\/li>\n
- We took
\npaid long service leave<\/b> and saved up annual leave so still got
\nfortnightly payments the whole trip. We didn’t want to need to work on
\nour trip.<\/span><\/li>\n- A
\nfew dollars in the bank and the ability to work to keep the dream going<\/b>
\n– bye bye to our jobs and now we’re getting used to life on the road.
\nMost people have the money to do it if they really want\/need to do this –
\nmost people take a big hit money wise but if that was the only thing in
\nlife what an awful world we’d live in.<\/span> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.travellingaustraliawithkids.com\/images\/xtwin-falls.jpg.pagespeed.ic.nyCl-NKcrJ.jpg\")
Twin Falls – photo Tourism Australia<\/span><\/div>\n\n- We rented out our house. The rent covered the mortgage etc<\/b>. Car and van were
\npaid off. Living on the road is cheaper than in a
\nhouse. We worked every now and again on our trip, earnt just enough for a few more months before needing to stop again. We had some savings to start off and if it reached a certain level we would stop
\nand work to top it up. We also
\nbudgeted for emergencies. Work out what big things you might like to do, ie flight over Kakadu, and save for them separately.<\/span><\/li>\n- I’m a single parent, I live solely on Centrelink benefits<\/b> and have
\nsome savings, I free camp as much as I can. We eat cheaply, don’t do the major
\ntourist attractions.\u00a0 We travel to next destination when finances allow as fuel takes up a lot of your money, so stay places a bit longer. It is much cheaper than living in a house!<\/span><\/li>\n- 2 Adults, 2 Children, roughly $1500<\/b> per week<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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