Walk out your front door and it’s easy to start spending money like it’s confetti. I’ve developed a passion that inadvertently is a very cheap way to spend a day. Tramping.

A couple of years back I joined the North Shore Tramping Club in order to get out walking more often. The club has its own bus and joining a day tramp is as simple as turning up at 9am with your gear and jumping on board.

Today we did a five hour hike from the Dome Valley, North of Auckland towards Matakana. Here’s where the money saving happens:  It costs just $15 to go on this trip. That’s less than I’d spend on petrol driving my car to the Dome Valley. What a cheap day out.

Even better, because I’m out in the bush, it’s downright impossible to pop to the cafe for a coffee or other money frittering activity.  I’ve figured out I sometimes save money on a Sunday when I go tramping.

Oh. And. The tramping’s fun too.