Change Jar!!!

[DisneyAndRedSox]

plus every week i take 50 dollars and put it on a disney giftcard its another great lil saving plan for disney because you can only spend it in a few locations (disney store, disney online, or disney parks!) you can even use it to pay for you vacation package

We stay at a Marriott timeshare so we eat off property a lot. Most grocery stores sell restaurant gift cards at the resigter and my Mom will add a $25 card when she is checking out. She tends to stick with cards that are good at multiple chains (Olive Garden/Red Lobster/Longhorn, Chilis/Macaroni Grill, etc). We just discovered CVS sells cards that are good at T-Rex/Rainforest/Yak and Yeti (Landrys?), so last 2 CVS trips she added one of those in. My parents don't eat out a lot and they both still work, so an extra $25 every week or so on the grocery bill doesn't make too much of a difference for them. Now that most restaurants got rid of dormancy fees, if we don't use a gift card it goes away for the next Disney trip.

In the mid 90's I worked in a mall right near Disney store, I would take my cash and occasionally exchange it for disney dollars!

 

[Nicholfamily5]

Thought I'd share the change jar we made last week with the kids.
It's an empty jar that once housed the animal crackers from BJ's. I spray painted the outside, and the kids had fun decorating it with HDMHs and glitter paint. I added my own touch on the lid!

We also glued the lid down to discourage any "coffee run" thieving...

 

[Nicholfamily5]

eh man...threadkiller

 

[mareeld86]

I love the chage jar idea its great you find it adds up so much when you just put all your change in there plus some notes!!

 

[Terk-1]

I have a small jar that I've been throwing change in for the last few months. We have a few change machines at work with one giving you the $1 coins and the other quarters. If I make change for the vending machine, all the coins that are left go straight in the jar. Yesterday, I purposely changed 4 $1 bills to change, so that I would have to put them in the jar. I've got about $40 now, but am hoping to get it to $60 by my upcoming trip. This will help pay for tips for both mousekeeping & dining. My bank has a new change machine that is like Coinstar, but because I am a member, there is no charge/fees taken out.

After my vacation, will start the jar again to help save for next year's trip!!

 

[CowboyCO]

We cashed ours about 3 weeks ago and got $417!

Then a few days ago, one of my DSes came running up to me with a bag of dimes that we missed getting out of the trunk at the bank. There must be another $60-70 there too!

 

[JCTigger]

we are gearing up for our fall yard sale (second weekend in september) so yesterday I was going through old winter jackets that we plan to sell and my step father always had a bad habit of never taking money out of his jackets (i once found 2 one hundred dollar bills in a pair of his jeans set to go in the wash) so i of course went through pockets to make sure nothing was in them.. I must have found at least 5 dollars in change in just a few jackets and I'm not done yet we still have more to go through... and all of it get to go towards my disney trip!