Wouldn’t it be great to travel all around the world and get free room, board, and a little bit of extra cash for your travels? You can do this by bouncing from youth hostel to youth hostel, agreeing to work for them in exchange for free room and board plus ‘a little bit extra.’
Here’s how it’s done:
Make contact with the youth hostels in the city you’re thinking about traveling to. Call and tell them you’re a newbie traveler (even if you aren’t… it’s all relative!) with little funding to pay to stay at their hostel, but that you’d be happy to work for free at their hostel 3-5 hours per day, 7 days per week, in exchange for a place to sleep.
Make sure you tell them,”At the end of a one week trial, if it doesn’t work out, you can feel free to say ‘no thanks,’ and I’ll be on my way.”
This is a great deal for the hostel, and with the number of hostels in fantastic cities around the world, I can tell you from personal experience that you’re going to find *someplace* that will put you up. Heck, you could even do work for someone you find off of Craigslist in exchange for a place to sleep. Good negotiating skills on your part may even get you free food!
So, how do you make cash while you’re in the hostel? Also very easy and simple. Most hostelers are going out to dinner, drinking, or both. So, at each hostel you’re staying at, go buy some cheap pasta, burgers, beers, or whatever, and sell a plate for 5 bucks a meal and call it ‘Pre-Party Dinner.’ Now you’re building ‘community’ for the hostel.
The hostel is happy because you’re building their reputation, the travelers are happy because they’ve saved money on a meal and met other travelers in a non-threatening environment, and you’re happy because you now have a bit of cash, a free place to stay, and free food for the day (and days to come!)
Another great way to make money is to organize a pub crawl for the hostel. Now, you typically wouldn’t make much cash just by getting everyone to go out with you. So you have to get creative about it.
Visit the local bars in town that have cover charges. Tell the bar owners, “Listen, I’ll bring you a minimum of X travelers per week. You get to keep all the profits from their alcohol purchases, of course. All I ask is that you give me half of the cover charges in exchange for bringing them to you.”
So, assuming a 10-dollar cover charge, if you bring in 10 people, you’ve now made 50 bucks for the night. If you sold them dinner as well, you’re up even more money, you’ve got a free place to stay, and you’ve got a bunch of new friends!
If you REALLY want to knock it out of the park and make a killing, organize an ‘inter-hostel pub crawl.’ Same exact deal you’ve made with the bar, but this time, you do a little bit more legwork and you get every hostel in town meet up at that bar. If you can get two or three bars to strike a deal with you, you can make 150+ dollars per night stopping at every bar along the way.
For even MORE money, try and get a 100% cut of the cover charges then tell the hostelers you’ve arranged a half-off cover price. Now you’ll get more people to come out and you get more cash. Or, just arrange for the bar to give you free drinks!
By utilizing a few savvy techniques while traveling, you can make a decent amount of money without ever holding a job! Granted, there are many more lucrative ways to get paid while traveling, but this is a great way to get started, and is a nice ‘trick’ to have in your back pocket in case you suddenly can’t afford a bus ride to your next destination!
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Any parent having a kid allergic to peanuts would know how difficult their lives could get along with their children’s’. Shopping food items could take hours as every label on the food packet needs to be checked before the purchase is made so that it is ensured that there is no trace of peanuts. Peanut free food needs to be arranged with such children’s school in later course of time and also in case of the child’s birthday party. Such things could at times become more than just a night mare. Peanut allergies are quite common and sometimes prove as fatal allergies for the child. Few kids are very sensitive to peanuts and can get the same just by coming into contact with some other’s skin that has the allergy. Peanut allergies could lead to things like anaphylactic shock which could be a severe allergic reaction proving fatal.
Until the child reaches around the age of two or sometimes three, peanut allergies are not diagnosed. Parents having history of peanut allergies in their family are advised to wait for at least until the time when the child reaches the age of three, before peanuts and items containing peanuts, can be given to them. Pregnant mothers are often advice about not eating peanuts, especially in their third trimester despite the fact of hereditary allergy of peanuts existing or not.
The main reason for any allergy relating to peanuts to develop is by getting into contact with small traces of peanuts. This makes the child to later have severe allergic reactions when peanuts are consumed. Initial sensitizations could occur right from the time of pregnancy. It has been seen that very little amount of peanut protein could cross the placenta. Recent studies have revealed that in case of consuming peanuts or items consuming peanuts during pregnancy could develop the allergy in the child in the later years. This was compared to women who consumed peanuts and those who did not.
It doesn’t mean that you need to totally ignore peanuts at all costs, especially when there are no instances of nut allergies in your family. Factually, peanuts and items with peanut factor are quite beneficial to yourself and your baby. Peanuts are sources of proteins and folic acid, which is significant to a growing baby. Peanut butter or standalone peanuts are said to help in getting rid of morning sickness during the first trimester of pregnancy tenure. Every woman should know that, many women who had no instances of peanut related allergies in their families and hence consumed excessive amounts of peanuts and related food stuff, later delivered babies who were prone to peanut allergies.
Before saying a stern no to jelly sandwiches and peanut butter, ensure that you have a word with your doctor. Your doctor would be helpful in creating a well balanced and healthy eating plan for you for your entire tenure. You would have to mention about your family history of peanuts allergies and matters concerning the same. If any woman is uncomfortable eating peanuts, she need not change her mind about the same as event woman for that matter has the rights to make decisions about her child and her body.