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Old Nov 6, 2005 | 3:37 pm
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Originally Posted by IceTrojan
Agreed. While budget travel is great, I fail to understand people who go for the absolute cheapest route in anything regardless of the consequences (exception for those who are absolutely destitute).

Let's just assume the trait takes 2 hours. So $15 saved / 4 hours wasted = $3.75/hr. If you just a minimum wage job, you can easily make that up in ~2 hours of extra work, so net time wasted is ~2 hours (and this is minimum wage... I imagine a lot of people can make that up in under an hour).

And while traveling, I can think of a lot I could do with those 2 hours.
That's what my thought is.

If you have to pinch your budget that much, you may want to spend the next 3 or 4 weeks at home saving some more cash.
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