Have you seen this little piggy? Just a little bit ago we opened our email and found in it another announcement of the upcoming 2012 Family Economics conference in Chicago just a couple of short months away! If you remember from when we first announced this conference, we shared that it was at the first annual Family Economics conference that we really solidified our vision for my leaving the corporate world and coming home to work with my family in many of our business ventures. We would have never dreamed that just two short years later we would have been asked to come to the conference to share practical ways and tips to help families save money and stretch their budgets in every area of life!
So let us help you by piggy-backing off the great tips that Generations with Vision already shared by sharing them with you and adding a couple of our own!
#1. Start following our site and learning all the great tips and money-saving advice now (before the conference)!
So first, if you are new to our site we want to wish you a warm welcome! But we don’t want you to just wait for the conference to get some great tips and advice. We want you to start saving now to help get you to the conference for less! We wouldn’t be The Thrifty Couple if we didn’t share with you tips now on how to do it for less and start saving money now.
We invite you to join our fun community on Facebook where you get links to the latest on our site – but even more so, you can join in on the discussions! We love our community and LOVE the comments! Plus we post exclusive deals, coupons and samples on Facebook so make sure to like us to get it all!
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#2. Make sure to register and use promotion code ThriftyCouple to save you $20 off your registration!
We love saving money here and wouldn’t be consistent unless we shared with you how to save on your registration for the conference! As we mention above, simply click here to go to the conference site, and when you sign up use code ThriftyCouple to sign up!
#3. Write about it on your own blog and get a discount!
Do you have your own family blog? Generations with Vision is offering you $25 off your family registration or $5 off your personal registration just for sharing on your blog (let us know if you do so we can get you in contact with the right person to get your discount)! Of course, we would love it if you mentioned that you can’t wait to meet us, but with the awesome lineup of speakers we understand if you don’t. 🙂
#4. Check out many of our tips on how to save on your road trip to Chicago including the drive, accommodations and food!
Two years ago we shared a number of articles on how to save on your many stages of a road trip:
- Make sure to prepare your vehicle for the trip. Its not much fun to be stuck on the side of the road (not to mention not thrifty with cost of tow truck and small town mechanic). Besides, you don’t want to miss the first day of the conference!
- We share some great tips on the actual drive itself! From setting a budget to the food on the trip you will want to read this. We even have a small section to prevent everyone in the car from going crazy with some ideas for in-car activities too! And yes, the little picture of our daughter eating her french fry was on our way to the Family Economics conference back in 2010!
- Even though we all know the price of gas is astronomical, if you have a family (and a large one at that) you know the cost of lodging can be through the roof! Make sure to check out our list of tips and tricks to help reduce the cost of motel or hotel as well!
- Before you read this next part and just close the browser claiming we don’t know what we’re talk about we ask you to read it in full – stay at a timeshare or condo! We share tips (not on buying a timeshare) but how to get those empty and overflow condos for much less!
So although you could hitchhike (you can see that tip in the original email), we really encourage you to check out these tips first! 🙂
We invite you to come, gain a vision for your own family and meet with a large number of families doing the same!
Don’t forget to see our original post announcing the 2012 Family Economics conference for more details about the conference!
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