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well hello guys I hope you are having a
fantastic day today we are doing a video
that quite a few of you actually
requested ever since I got back from my
trip so I thought that since we're all
in quarantine and it is still freakin
freezing here in Calgary there is still
snow on the ground and it's still minus
five we are in the middle of April what
is going on um but basically I wanted to
do the video of explaining to you guys
how I travel for my long trip for six
months total so to give you guys a very
brief sort of rundown of what my channel
was like and what kind of income it was
bringing in before I left on my trip I
had approximately 17,000 subscribers
before I left on my trip last year
around end of July time and I think from
Adsense I was only making gosh I don't
even know probably like 100 150 dollars
a month like really not a lot obviously
and I think I was maybe making an extra
fifty to a hundred from affiliate links
and then I had started my patreon in
March time but I think my average for
around that time was also around a
hundred dollars a month so really not a
lot of money probably about like four or
five hundred dollars a month and that
was like a good month so obviously when
I was still
Toronto I had a part-time job where I
was a server and that was my main source
of income so in this video I wanted to
share with you guys my top eight sort of
bullet points of how I was able to
afford this trip and hopefully they will
be helpful to anyone else who is
thinking of doing a long term sort of
trip or travel in general so the number
one way that I was able to afford this
trip and is probably quite obvious but
I'm just gonna stated is that the
currency was obviously in my favor so
whenever anybody asks me how I'm able to
afford this sort of trip the very first
and main point that I will tell them is
the fact that in Toronto it costs me
basically a bare minimum of two thousand
dollars to pay my rent and afford
everything else I need whereas if I'm
travelling Eastern Europe especially if
my plane ticket is kind of divided
amongst three to six months of travel
and you're still able to stay on a
budget when you're in those countries
like you know staying in hostels are
staying at more budget Airbnb is not
spending too much money on transit or
food any of those types of things I
would say that I was traveling very
comfortably for basically $1,200 a month
if you are able to follow a budget in
both places
you're still basically spending half in
Eastern Europe or at least I was I can't
speak for other people but I found that
my budget was half of what I would
usually spend in Toronto now my second
point of how I was able to afford this
trip was that I did save money so I
think I bought my round-trip plane
ticket about three months before I was
actually leaving and obviously I was
thinking about doing this trip maybe a
month before I actually bought the
ticket so kind of in that duration of
four months or so I increase the amount
of shifts that I was doing at my serving
job I real
wanted to give myself that headstart and
have some money saved up so it'd be a
little bit less stressful now my third
point makes an absolutely huge
difference my trip would have basically
almost costs double if this wouldn't
have worked out which is I had a sublet
so for those of you who don't know what
a sublet is it's basically somebody
coming to live in your apartment and pay
the rent while you are away and then you
get your apartment back when you come
back obviously you leave all the
furniture and any of that kind of stuff
there though I always of course take my
valuables and leave that with a friend
and thankfully I've had the most
wonderful experiences of subletting my
place I always get really fantastic
respectful people being able to sublet
my apartment has made a huge difference
now the fourth way I was able to afford
my trip was thankfully hallelujah my
channel did grow and I made so much more
money just from my channel so as I said
when I first started traveling I think
my channel was only bringing in like
five or six hundred dollars from the
channel and affiliates alone thankfully
angel in disguise Alex from reporter
five who I had been working with in this
past year offered me an opportunity to
kind of do some freelance work for his
channel so I was able to make some
income from that as well so that was
incredibly appreciated and lots of fun
will probably actually be doing quite a
few more collaborations in the future
so with his help and with my channel
getting more views getting more
affiliate links and the absolutely
incredible people that I have supporting
me on patreon
I truly am just so touched every single
month when I have so many of you
supporting my work it just means so much
to me and was such a big help on this
trip so I think it was probably in
December that I had my biggest Adsense
sort of check in the history of my
channel I think I had like five or six
hundred thousand views in that month and
I think I had almost $1,100 of for just
the Adsense so thankfully towards the
end of my trip I wasn't so worried about
budgeting every single dollar I knew
that I was going to be coming home with
even more money in the bank and being
able to continue this job once I'm back
in Canada so that was a huge huge relief
now the fifth way that I was able to
afford my trip was that I still did keep
it as budget-friendly as possible yes of
course I did splurge on some things like
I spent basically a hundred dollars to
go see the Mariinsky ballet in st.
Petersburg and that's a hundred percent
worth it I went to some nicer
restaurants once in a while and
sometimes I upgraded you know my train
tickets instead of going third-class or
always being in the top bunk I treated
myself to that but overall I would say
that I tried to keep my daily budget to
approximately thirty dollars a day and
traveling in Russia I mean that's a
pretty good budget if you're able to
stay in hostels or in my very privileged
case as you guys know I have an Airbnb
affiliate sort of code so because you
guys used the credit that I offered you
that I will also put in the description
I get $25 as credit every single time
you travel so on this trip I think I had
approximately 800 dollars of Airbnb
credit so $800 worth of accommodation
that I didn't have to pay for thanks to
you guys so I truly appreciate that and
as I've mentioned in other videos if you
guys don't have a code or have never
used Airbnb before I do have a link in
my description that gets you forty five
dollars off your first day seventeen
dollars off an experience I believe so
it's a big win for you it's a big
for me and that was another way that I
was able to save a lot of money now the
sixth way that I was able to afford this
trip and it kind of plays into the last
point but it's also kind of its own
thing which is I cut out anything that
wasn't necessary so this point actually
started when I was still back in Toronto
and planning for this trip where I had
quite a few different memberships going
on like I had a gym membership I had my
phone plan I had I had basically like
certain kinds of memberships of things
that I did while I was in Toronto so
when I knew that I was going on this
trip I made sure that I remembered to
give notice to all of those you know
different things that I no longer needed
their service so I wouldn't be paying
for it while I was on my trip it was
actually my phone bill that cost a lot
of money here in Canada we pay
absolutely insane rates and it doesn't
matter who you go to you're still paying
like 50 $60 a month for the very basic
of the basic plans one that I wouldn't
even really be able to use because it
doesn't have enough data so for a plan
here in Canada that has enough data
you're basically paying eighty or ninety
dollars a month
basically that point alone saves me like
four fifty five hundred dollars
something like that like six months of
cell phone service that I wouldn't be
using anyway so if you are thinking of
doing a very long sort of trip make sure
you look at all the things that are
automatically being deducted off your
credit card and make sure that you get
rid of things that you're not actually
going to use you can always sign up
later now the last point to conclude
this list and for me personally was
obviously the most important point which
is that I believed in myself so none of
this trip would have ever been possible
if from the time I got this idea that I
automatically said no like this isn't
going to work
I don't have the money I don't know how
I'm gonna do it in such a big risk just
going into the
worst-case scenarios and staying there
so you know that was actually my initial
reaction when it first came to me and I
think it took maybe one or two weeks for
me to kind of sit with the idea really
ponder it think about my options and
then all of a sudden it was like the
best idea that I ever had and so even
though I wasn't sure how I was going to
make it happen and a few months out I
really didn't know how it was gonna pay
for it and just a whole bunch of other
factors but I did trust that if I felt
so strongly about it and as you guys
know I'm a kind of spiritual sort of
person and if I feel like the universe
is guiding me down a certain kind of
path and I have a really good feeling I
know that it's going to work out or at
the very least I'm gonna learn something
important out of it so I'm able to trust
more and more to take these kinds of
risks if I feel that it's the right
decision for me but of course I do
things on the practical level as well
like saving up money you know keeping
the budget as low as possible so I'm not
stressed out about money and basically
also trusting in the kindness of
strangers because that was a huge reason
of why I was able to make this trip
possible it was because you guys have
watched my videos the incredible people
that I have on patreon who support me
and for anybody who just offered a
helping hand it was just you know the
reason that my trip went as well as it
did and that I came home basically a
transformed version of myself so that is
it I hope you guys enjoyed this video
and found it helpful
let me know in the comments down below
if you guys have actually ever went on
long term sort of trips and the kind of
tips that you found helpful because I am
once again gonna be traveling and I'm
always looking for you know new ways of
doing things so leave that in the
comments down below I do have that
affiliate link for Airbnb in my
description if you guys don't already
have a code and what else I am going to
sketch
next week things here in Canada have
gotten better kind of sort of they
basically just made domestic flying a
lot safer than it was before where
they're not letting people on who have
any kind of symptoms so my dad feels
better about me coming down there to
visit him so I'm gonna pop down there
for about a week and a half before then
going back to Toronto so I am gonna try
and film a little bit in Saskatchewan so
without any further ado thank you for
staying here thank you for supporting my
channel guys it truly means the world I
hope you are having a spectacular day
keep being your own kind of beautiful
and I will see you soon bye guys
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