Coli Breh and his PAWG Live Permanently on Cruise Ships For a Little Over $10K a Year

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Giving it all up and retiring to live on a cruise ship at 32 seems like a lifestyle choice only available to the ultra-wealthy. However, two financially savvy retired school teachers from Tennessee have managed to do just that, spending under $10,000 for the first eight months at sea.

Monica Brzoska, 32, and Jorrell Conley, 36, met in 2015 while teaching in Memphis, Tennessee. The following year, they booked a week-long cruise to Mexico, Belize, and Grand Cayman. After that, they were hooked on cruising together.

Eight years later, in March 2023, they booked a week-long Caribbean cruise. When it was over, instead of returning home to Memphis, they had a wild idea: Why not continue to book consecutive cruises? So, they did just that.

Monica was inspired to start living the life she always wanted after her father fell ill and her mother told her: "Don't wait for retirement. Follow your dreams."



The couple crunched the numbers and found that if they chose the cheapest cabins and used the deals they’ve received from Carnival Cruises, they could book the first 8 months for just under $10,000. “It sounds mad, but the numbers made sense. Accommodation, food and entertainment would be included – we’d only need spending money,” Brzoska told The Sun. “And because we’d been on so many Carnival cruises, we’d earned access to some amazing offers.”

Hopping from ship to ship isn’t difficult for the couple because many disembark from the same ports. But they sometimes have to fly when they can’t walk to the next ocean liner.

The couple then quit their jobs, sold their possessions, and started a new life on the high seas. They rent out their 3-bedroom home in Memphis to maintain steady cash flow. The average 3-bedroom home in the area rents somewhere between $1200 to $1900 a month.




Over the first year of their new life, the couple completed 36 consecutive cruises. They have already visited countless destinations across the globe, but they can’t choose a favorite. "For a cultural experience, we loved Japan," Brzoska told a Carnival Cruise director on Instagram. The couple also loved Greece for its “history” and Iceland because it was the "closest to being on Mars."

One of the most incredible benefits of loving on a cruise ship is that so many things are taken care of for you. The couple never has to cook any meals, do any laundry or drive. Every night, there is something to do, whether it’s checking out a comedy show or enjoying drinks and dancing in the nightclub.



Plus, on cruises, just about all the costs are covered, so you rarely have to open your wallet. It’s a stress-free, all-inclusive lifestyle. Brzoska says that when you remove the everyday stresses from life, it’s great for your marriage. “Without the daily stresses of life, we rarely argued, but always told each other if we needed space or more time together,” she said.

The couple also makes sure to have one date night a week, during which they dress up and have a nice meal together.

Most people may be unable to give it all up and live their lives hopping from ocean liner to ocean liner. But there’s a great lesson in the story of Brzoska and Conley: You never know how much time you have left, so don’t wait for retirement to live the life of your dreams.

Upworthy has reached out to Brzoska for comment and is still awaiting a response.



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Beautiful! Love seeing black couples living life and on their own terms :banderas:
 
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Here’s the thing…I get it, but I don’t get dragging ppl with rental properties. The ppl/corporations that own apartment buildings, lease communities filled with townhomes, etc literally do the same thing.


As long as you aren’t price gouging, it is what it is.
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You're responding to a guy that's gone into hiding after being exposed :mjlol:
 
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THE MATH ISN'T ADDING UP FOR ME. A 1 WEEK CRUISE IS LIKE 1K FOR 2 PEOPLE ON CARNIVAL. HOW ARE THEY PULLING OFF 10K FOR THE YEAR?
 
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Good for them! I've got too much thalassophobia and megalophobia to even attempt something like this though :whoa:


Main normal life problem downside I can think of is being sick or injured.

Can't imagine recovery or even treatment/care being all that great while mid cruise.
 
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I’ve been on a couple cruises, the longest of which was seven days. It was great but by the 5th day it feels like you’ve been in Vegas too long. You know how if you stay in Vegas for more than 3 days you lose track of time and just feel wired? I was walking around on the cruise at 2AM getting ice cream cones, man. 3AM I’m in the mini theater with a few people watching Jurassic Park on a big screen. These are not normal things lol. It adds up and by the end you feel crazy, all while eating like shyt.
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I had fun though. Me and my brother kept running into a breh who worked for the cruise line, and he would always tell us entertaining but wild stories. And he’d give us a heads up on things that were about to happen. One night the cruise kinda just stopped in a random spot for awhile and it freaked everyone out, but earlier that day he had told us “they gonna stop the boat around midnight to restart a system, it’ll be all good though.” When it happened me and my brother were like

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