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Save For Your Amazing Summer With Help From Walmart Family Mobile
Summer is officially HERE in Florida. The kids have been out of school for 2 days now – so it’s time to let the FUN begin! We have Summer Camps scheduled, a fabulous family trip to Michigan on the horizon, and of course unlimited play dates with our friends.
That also means that us parents have to do some extra saving. The kids LOVE Summer Camps, my son’s favorite is Horse Camp and I am also trying to plan a week at Busch Gardens. Doesn’t that sound expensive? I mean…FUN. Well, it sounds expensive and fun…While I really want the kids to experience these camps this summer, camps are much more expensive than school. Especially since school is free 😉 So that means I have to find some ways to cut back in other areas.
Our Summer trip to Michigan is one of my favorite trips EVER. I am been vacationing in Lake Leelanau for over 30 years now, and me moving to Florida wasn’t going to stop that tradition. My ENTIRE family goes – aunts, uncles and all! We spend two weeks biking, boating, eating, enjoying the camp fire. Did I mention I drive up? It takes us 30 HOURS to get there, but it’s worth every minute 🙂 While it’s a trip that we all love, it is also one that costs money. We have to plan for gas (there and back is over 2500 miles!), the campground, the food, and all the little odds and ends that pop up along the way.
When I was at Walmart this week doing some grocery shopping, I walked past the Electronics section on my way to the outdoor area (need to get some supplies for the RV for our Michigan trip!) and I noticed the Walmart Family Mobile Plan.
The Walmart Family Mobile Plan is $29.88/month (for the first line) Unlimited Talk, Text & Data service plan which includes up to 1G of 4G LTE data. That is a LOT less than my other plan. I checked out the phones and fell in love with the ZTE ZMAX.
And guess what? I figured out a way to help my family Save For Summer and all the fun we have planned! The Walmart Family Mobile’s 4G LTE service will give me the coverage I need at a fraction of the cost. Now that I am saving on my cell bill, I can save for those Summer Camps and our family trip to Michigan!
Plus, I love the phone – it’s big, has a ton of features, and takes outstanding pictures! Which is perfect for all those memories we will be making this summer 🙂
What are you saving for this summer? Are you traveling? What summer camps are your kids favorites?
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We live in Florida so we don’t travel to far in the summer.
We live in Florida too 🙂
My brother likes them and he ‘s friends.
This summer we are spending every afternoon we can at the pool, and heading to the beach in a few weeks. We don’t do tons of camps, we try to stick to maybe maybe 1 or 2, usually something like gymnastics or tennis camp
That looks like so much fun!
I need to check this out. I am disabled and being on Social Security it is getting harder and harder to pay the bills…they go up but the Social Security doesn’t. My phone bull, er I mean bill has gotten crazy high. I wish there was more than one cable company…they have also gotten way too high…in fact they are higher than all my other bills other than my rent. Thanks…I’ll check them out next time I go to Wally World.
Horse camp does sound so fun! You’re so right, camps and classes during the summer are crazy expensive. I want my kids to have these experiences, too, but we have to pick and choose which ones because we just can’t do them all. Not just because of cost, but I try to keep the pace relaxed during the Summer.
Okay, wait… I pay twice that for my phone service. It is not Walmart but Straight Talk. I am going to go check this out!
This is what my son needs! Thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome!
looks like you had fun
My sister told me all about this. It sounds cool.
This sounds like a great phone plan for $29.88 a month, I currently pay $40 a month with just talk and text. I will have to look into this.
I used to enjoy camping. I’m getting a bit to old to tent camp. Cabin camping is okay.
Horseback riding is fun. I imagine the camp is expensive. But hey. if you can swing it, go for it!
Thanks so much for the Fantastic Review on Save For Your Amazing Summer With Help From Walmart Family Mobile! Since both my husband and I are disabled, we get a free cell phone with so many free minutes a month. We basically use this for when we are away from home. We had not taken a vacation in like 10 years when we took the RV on our first vacation last year! We had a blast! We stayed with a campsite which is everywhere. We ended up in Virginia and there was so many things for the kids to do right on camp! It was quiet and beautiful and we had a wonderful time! However, we had some major things go on right after we got home from our vacation and now we cannot afford to go again this year! Thanks so much for sharing your summer plans, your fantastic review, the pictures, and your personal and professional opinions on Save For Your Amazing Summer With Help From Walmart Family Mobile with all of us!!! I truly do appreciate it!! Thanks again, Michele 🙂
You’re welcome – and thank YOU for your comment! I hope you get a chance to use your RV again soon. Take care 🙂
I would love to give this a try,,interesting
I don’t think I could stand a thirty hour car trip. I get too nervous sitting in a car for more than twenty minutes.
This summer were cleaning up the outside. Taking out shrubs that are as large as trees, stuff like that. Not fun, but long over due.
this looks like something we would really enjoy
I’m not into all of the technical stuff. The last camera I had was one of those old instants.
That takes an amazing photo. It seems like wal-mart stores are all over the place. Gotta love the people of wal-mart!
I have shopped at Wal-Mart a couple of times. They have good prices on some items but, at least at our location,items often ring up incorrectly. You just have to watch.
A vacation would be nice. We haven’t taken a real one in years.
The arrows always make me laugh.It reminds me of the mall signs that say you are here.
Good to know! Thank you for the information!
I don’t use a phone that requires an app, so I save money right there. I’m way behind when it comes to that stuff.
I would like to go to Hawaii. That would be my ideal vacation.
Thanks for sharing. Camp sounds like lots of fun for kids.
You’ve got a large family. I can see how a vacation could get quite expensive.
We have an old oak tree that is less than two feet away fro the house. It’s over 200 years old and has to be taken out. That’s very expensive.
My best vacation is going camping and crabbing. I love to cook up fresh crab meat.
I would like to go on a vacation.Not in the summer but in the spring or fall when the weather is nicer.
I’m just curious what this runs. I only have a land line.
Summer camp sounds like fun. For both the child and the parent.
I loved reading what you wrote about save-for-your-amazing-summer-with-help-from-walmart-family-mobilI had to run in there while in Kauai for a camera while we were there great price too.
i love when my grandchildren come to visit in the summer. It is too hard for me to travel since my accident.
This camp sounds like a great idea. Also the cellular plan sounds worth checking into.