-Use your $5 on day one to purchase a tin can for begging. This is known as begging and it frowned upon. Lots of people will buy a hat for begging, but buy a can of beans because in addition to using the can to ask for change, you can also eat the beans. Try to clean it out before you get money because otherwise it all has bean juice on it.
-Use a calling card to make calls. This saves money so that you can call home and leave harassment messages for your parents such as, “You cheap fucks, burn in hell. The cheap one, not the nice one.”
-Instead of keeping a journal about how much you’re learning and how your soul is wandering, write it all down on a bunch of napkins. They’re free and they are more likely to blow away and not bother anyone.
-Everyone wants to go see the Eiffel Tower and other big attractions, but you can save a lot of money by skipping big attractions and looking for some offbeat, lesser-known fare. What’s the Eiffel Tower when compared to the inside of a train station for three weeks?
-Souvenirs are always a money drain. Try getting something cheap, like postcards. Then return them to a shop where they are marked up. When your friends ask about their postcards, just say the whole stack fell in the sewer.
-Accommodations are expensive, but you can save a lot depending on where you go. Hostels are cheap, though not recommended. Because if you’re going to be knifed by a stranger, let it happen in an alley, like a man. No great man ever died in a bunk bed.
-A poncho is a good multi-use garment. It works in the rain, blocks the wind and sun, doubles as a blanket if you’re really cold, and allows authorities a handy way to wrap up your desiccated corpse when they remove it from the laundromat where you were just trying to stay warm next to the dryer.