So what do you guys do with your rewards?

[alacazander]

Last year I paid for LaNouba :dance3: and it was fantastic just knowing it didn't cost us $250:thumbsup2 !

This year i'm saving the Disney Gifts cards for our trip in August! Fun money to spend while on vacation. It's not targeted at anything in particular yet!

I'd love to hear what you'all are doing with your rewards!popcorn::

[Wilsonfamily4]

I am cashing out through paypal to buy Christmas presents this year. I spent too much last year and have made a goal for myself that I will not buy more then I make through reward sites. The rewards I get off of netwinner though will go to decorating our bedroom. Then after Christmas all I get will go to the Disney trip planned for January 2009.

[Disney4Drew]

Paying for dining on our November Disney trip! :thumbsup2

[luvhockey]

Buying disney gc and dollars for souvenirs, pirate cruise and neverland club for our first family trip in Nov.

[DznyDreams]

Cashing out for Disney GCs and applying them to our MYW plus dining package for this coming November. :thumbsup2 Anything beyond this will probably be used to cover travel expenses (we drive from TX) and/or souvenirs. (I LOVE to shop!) ;)

[mydogisbo]

Last month we paid for all of our dining & souvenirs with SR & QR Disney Gift Card cashouts.

I also cashed out 2 other programs for hotel checks to stay on the way down & back.

Non-Disney related items include Target gift cards for Christmas presents, B&N gift cards for teacher gifts, and cash to redecorate a room in our house (pay for new furniture). I also cashed out MyPoints for Home Depot cards to paint & put up molding in that room.

Other gifts & misc.

My new goal is to save first for Disney 2008. I've got enough in gift cards all ready to pay for the 2 nights we'll stay on a Disney reservation. I need to cash out some to PayPal to pay for renting the DVC points (already had most of that saved up). Then I want to get our tickets, dining & souvenirs paid for again & hopefully a hotel check for the way back home. If I'm really lucky maybe enough to do a special tour.

I agree--it makes it a lot of fun to have "free money" for your trip! I'm SO glad I found these programs!!!

[DznyDreams]

Buying disney gc and dollars for souvenirs, pirate cruise and neverland club for our first family trip in Nov.

Luvhockey - What week in Nov? DH, DD(11) and I will be at the WL for 8 nights beginning Nov. 25. I cannot wait!:yay:

[luvhockey]

We'll be down 11/23-12/2 at POR. I know it's extra to get there the day after thanksgiving but I just couldn't give up the days! I'm hoping for a good code to make it worth splitting the reservation and getting the cheaper rate.
Plus, DH & I anniv is 11/20 DS #1 will be 9 11/24 DS #2 will be 6 on 11/30. It's going to be a grand celebration.
Angela

[DznyDreams]

Sounds like a grand celebration indeed! I hope you guys have a blast. I've stayed at POR before (it was Dixie Landings at the time), and we loved it. Enjoy! :)

[MrSanderz]

I have a lot of Disney gift cards to use towards our shipboard account. I'm also going to cash out about $200 for Old Navy and save it for August when I take my two DD's back-to-school shopping.
I've also cashed out for Target cards for my everyday shopping but when I do that I put the same amount of money into a savings account so I can actually see the earnings. It's so fun to "shop" for gift cards with rewards money.

[3dog2kidmom]

All Disney, all the time!!!

Last month I went with $500 in gift cards from Sunshine and MyPoints (when they still had webbies that I used to buy gift cards through SR!), a Rainforest gift card from MyPoints, $50 in Hyatt certificates to use for the day room after the cruise, and $547 in Disney Visa rewards. The Disney gift cards paid for all our meals and spending during the land portion of our vacation ($13 charged to my visa over the gift cards I had), and the Visa rewards covered all but $11 of our shipboard account.

Since then, I believe I've already saved enough rewards for spending $ on my June mother/daughter trip @ POR, so now I'm going to start saving for another cruise!!

[sammielynn]

I used a lot of my earnings for Christmas and am now saving for our May Disney trip. I hope to have enough to pay for our tickets. If that does not work out I may just cash them in on some gift card for some resturants. We stay off site so that would come in handy. I have $375 as of today, $150 in my SR account and $225 in Disney gift cards.

[MommyBoo!]

Disney gift cards for souvenirs, fuel cards for the drive down and back, hotel certificates for the drive down and back, Rainforest Cafe gift cards.

[sunshinegirl]

I love this thread!!! As I am sitting here making my way through trouble tickets and arguing with advertisers, I start to get down about SR. Then I see this and it totally motivates me to get out there and help everyone earn more!!

I sent my latest Disney Dollars to my nephew for his birthday. I'll send my next set to my sister for her birthday. Then next to my other nephew for his birthday. After that, I will start saving up Disney GC to pay for my parents, sister, and nephew to join us in WDW for Chef Mickey's and then MNSSHP. We'll use DVC points to get them a room. So it will be like taking them for free. And they will be so excited!

[lilangel]

With Sunshine I'm getting Amazon money to buy my dvd collection of old Tv shows...

Netwinner--I'm cashing out for Walmart Cards..My dd wants a laptop pc for her graduation gift..so I'm hoping to be able to save enough money to help pay for it..Ds doesn't know what he wants for graduation

Mypoints--Jcpenny cards for linens

Freeride-- V V Plan on saving up for a large screen tv...Don't know how close I will come to it but if I can save $500 that will help alot

Quick Rewards--Walmart Cards or Amazon

[murphnjamie]

Disney all the way for me, too!

I just started the whole reward thing but I am up to about $50 so far. I'll be cashing out in Disney dollars now and later gift cards (just in case Disney decides to have GC expire in the next couple of years). My next trip to WDW is in '09 and I plan on financing at least the dining and souvineers through rewards.

THANKS SR!

[Magical JenK]

Currently just saving for Disney gift cards/Disney Dollars towards our purchases while there in September!! But I think I'll also start cashing out for some Target GCs too as I could use them ALL the time! Plus, I work there so I get my employee discount & now the "rewards" part of me is thinking that any Tgt gift card is worth an additional 10% for me!! :0)

[Sunshineanddaisys]

Last year I saved enough to cover a massage on my cruise....this year, I've already saved enough for the massge, and now am working on saving more towards the cruise cost.

[jiminy14]

I give the Disney Dollars that I earn through SR to my DDs for spending money at WDW.
I use the money I earn from online surveys to pay for a special dinner at Disney that we normally could not afford. In the past, this money has paid for dinner at Jiko and the California Grill.

[LorieR]

We'll be down 11/23-12/2 at POR. I know it's extra to get there the day after thanksgiving but I just couldn't give up the days! I'm hoping for a good code to make it worth splitting the reservation and getting the cheaper rate.
Plus, DH & I anniv is 11/20 DS #1 will be 9 11/24 DS #2 will be 6 on 11/30. It's going to be a grand celebration.
Angela

DH and I will be at POR 11/13-11/20 (and I am hoping to add on a day or two)!! I envy the fact that this will be your first trip. DH and I took our first family trip in 1982 (:scared1: ) with DS, DD, and DMIL. That was obviously before the internet and we knew next to nothing about all there was to do there and missed so much. You will have a wonderful time!! :)

Last year, I applied my GCs from QR and SR along with our Disney Visa Rewards towards our room charges and meals. We used Disney Dollars from QR and SR for food carts (popcorn!!!) and miscellaneous purchases.

[azgal81]

My boyfriend and I are hoping to go to disneyworld in December. The disney gift cards, disney dollars, cash from surveys and disney reward visa dollars should cover the majority of our trip cost. So this should be a just about free trip for us! Free is always good!

[M4travels]

Saving up for our Dec '07 cruise (4-day) to pay for the stateroom charges! It's working!!!!

From there we'll move on to Jan '09's cruise. Saving is a GOOD thing!

Michael

[bbangel]

I used mine to pay for all my souvenirs from my Disney trip in December. Bonus was that a lot of them doubled as Christmas presents.
Saving up now for another trip. Hoping to use them to pay for a tour and some of my food expenses.

[LovesDoomBuggies]

To pay for some "extras", like MNSSHP tickets and the Keys to the Kingdom tour. I'd love to do an Illuminations Cruise, but doubt I make enough to cover all of it. It's on the backburner.

I'm going to DL next Saturday for the first time ever and I made enough, between SR and QR, to pay for all of my meals during the day and hopefully a good chunk of souvenirs!

[bartleby1]

I used mine to convince DH that we can afford to go back to disney this summer for vacation, lol! The final push was the 10% back for disney gift cards that SR and QR were offering this month. Since I had such a good start on saving for another trip, DH agreed that we should order a bunch of gift cards this month too. He couldn't pass up the 10% extra. :banana: :banana:

So, we are going back in August! :cool1: :cool1: Still hoping for free dining to be offered. :goodvibes

[Jusacuz]

I'll be using mine to help pay off my August cruise. Once that's out of the way, I'll start saving for a family trip to WDW next year. :goodvibes

[alacazander]

Oh how fun! Seems like majority of us save most of our rewards for vacations!

I just love knowing that what I make doing the reward sites is FUN money!

I think i'm going to use some money to do the HDDR! Those dinner shows are so expensive!

[dizneenut]

I'm saving my rewards to pay for dinner at Chef Mickey's. We are taking our nephew/godson in July! :)

[Soccer Princess]

I'm using my SR to pay for the DDP and 8 day PH tx for both of us. If I get enough for those (which I'm 99% sure I will :)) then I'm going to start working toward the first 2 nights of our trip at the Polynesian and maybe MVMCP tix.

My MIL has also just joined SR and is going to give us all of her Disney gift cards toward our trip!!! I'm thinking we will use hers for any alcohol and meals the first 2 days (not on the dining plan). Hopefully, we will will just have to pay for any souviners and airfare!!!! :)

I LOVE SR!!!

[alacazander]

I'm using my SR to pay for the DDP and 8 day PH tx for both of us. If I get enough for those (which I'm 99% sure I will :)) then I'm going to start working toward the first 2 nights of our trip at the Polynesian and maybe MVMCP tix.

My MIL has also just joined SR and is going to give us all of her Disney gift cards toward our trip!!! I'm thinking we will use hers for any alcohol and meals the first 2 days (not on the dining plan). Hopefully, we will will just have to pay for any souviners and airfare!!!! :)

I LOVE SR!!!

How kewl is that you got your mil doing the rewards for Disney stuff too! Neat!

I tried to talk my mom into it but it didn't work! :rolleyes1

[LuckyLabonte]

since I paid off our Dec 07 trip with the GCs I ordered during the 8% (then 1% from my cc) promo, plus another $500 in spending money... I will use my reward $$ from reward sites for gas $$. After I have that taken care of, I want to use some towards some home improvements. I have a long list of home improvements. lol Anymore disney rewards earned off my disney card will be used for more spending money, can't ever have too much! :cool1:

[mydogisbo]

I'm planning to pay for my 2 day room add-on at POR with Disney GC & possibly my tickets. Can I do this online, or do I need to call Disney to use a gift card for this?

Thanks!

[alacazander]

I'm planning to pay for my 2 day room add-on at POR with Disney GC & possibly my tickets. Can I do this online, or do I need to call Disney to use a gift card for this?

Thanks!

Good question. I don't know but I would try online through the site and see if it will take the gift cards. Seems like you should be able to do it online but I've never checked into it.