# Saving up for a holiday 🌏✈️
**URL:** https://community.emma-app.com/t/saving-up-for-a-holiday/4177
**Category:** Money & Budgeting
**Created:** [May 24, 2021, 10:59am UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/saving-up-for-a-holiday/4177 "2021-05-24T10:59:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@rebekah](https://community.emma-app.com/u/rebekah)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2021, 10:59am UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/saving-up-for-a-holiday/4177/1 "2021-05-24T10:59:13Z")
A couple of weeks ago we put out a call for your best saver stories.
Last week we heard from [Fraser, who had been using Emma to save up for a house deposit](https://community.emma-app.com/t/paul-chuckle-congratulates-emma-user/4150) and this week we hear from Dora.
She got in touch to tell us how she used to spend all her money on unnecessary items like shoes and clothes, before Emma helped her realise that saving up to travel is what brought her the most joy 🌏 🛫
She’s since taken her first solo trip and is now saving up to travel around Asia next year!
Have you taken a solo trip before? Where did you go?
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### Author:  [@rebekah](https://community.emma-app.com/u/rebekah)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2021, 11:24am UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/saving-up-for-a-holiday/4177/3 "2021-05-24T11:24:11Z")
> [@jase](#):
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> Before I got a ring on my finger, I would travel solo a lot
It’s something I’ve never done, but feel like I should do at some point just to see what it’s like
I like a holiday with a mixture of relaxation and adventure. Are the holidays you’ve booked already abroad?
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### Author:  [@Joel](https://community.emma-app.com/u/Joel)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/saving-up-for-a-holiday/4177/5 "2021-05-25T17:39:02Z")
Did Switzerland & France for my 21st birthday by myself. Hiked (very foolishly looking back) up one of the French Alps in short and running shoes with a bottle of water and a jar of peanut butter - I reached snow though!
Edit: Picture is Lake Lugano, Switzerland
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### Author:  [@rebekah](https://community.emma-app.com/u/rebekah)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2021, 9:38am UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/saving-up-for-a-holiday/4177/7 "2021-05-26T09:38:16Z")
Peaceful is exactly the word I’d use to describe this too - looks amazing!
Also… a jar of peanut butter? Is that a normal snack for you @joel? 😂
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### Author:  [@Joel](https://community.emma-app.com/u/Joel)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/saving-up-for-a-holiday/4177/8 "2021-05-27T15:43:07Z")
> [@rebekah](#):
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> Also… a jar of peanut butter? Is that a normal snack for you @joel? 😂
Nope but I was 21 and poor in Switzerland - not the best combination. I did also have crackers if that makes it any better
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### Author:  [@rebekah](https://community.emma-app.com/u/rebekah)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2021, 12:56pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/saving-up-for-a-holiday/4177/9 "2021-05-28T12:56:54Z")
Yeah, way better!
(side note: don’t search for peanut butter gifs - v disturbing haha)