I was talking to a ventriloquist friend a couple of days ago and the topic came up of Vent Haven 2017. This person did just like I have heard several other people do. He moaned and groaned about the expense of the ConVENTion.<\/p>\n
So I decided to add up the expenses of the trip. The cost of getting into the ConVENTion is about $125.00 for the first person in a group or family. If you arrived at the Marriot on Wednesday about noon, you would only need to be there for 4 nights if you did not depart until Sunday morning. <\/p>\n
Cost of Hotel, $480.00. So far that is $605.00. You don’t need to eat at the expensive Hotel restaurant if you don’t have the money. Drive about a mile from the hotel and there are several inexpensive restaurants like McDonalds.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Even better, you are right next to the biggest Kroger on the planet. Buy a styrofoam cooler for about 8 bucks. Then buy your groceries for each day making sure to get food that is ready to eat. <\/p>\n
We can tell you for a fact that 2 people can eat for the entire time on about $100.00. Go back to your room with your styrofoam cooler and go get ice from the Hotel ice machine. (Free)<\/p>\n
Now you are at $705.00 dollars. If you spend $300.00 on transportation that puts you at $1,000.00 for the entire ConVENTion.<\/p>\n
There are now 41 weeks before next years ConVENTion. $1,000.00 divided by 41 is $24.39 per week. Most of us waste that much every week. Stop wasting and put it in a jar.. . . . .<\/p>\n
There goes your excuse. We will see you at ConVENTion next year.<\/p>\n
We will talk again next week.<\/p>\n
Steve and JET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was talking to a ventriloquist friend a couple of days ago and the topic came up of Vent Haven…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,59,60,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hints-and-tips","category-personal","category-puppets","category-ventriloquism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}