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[Belle Ella]

I just got a dreaded text from Nameless. She's nixed herself for not only DL in July, but DL completely in 2010.

Now, where do I go from here?

 

[kaoden39]

Oh geez, if we had room we would bring you with us. I love a couple of those pins. And your treasure hunt loot is cute. It sounds like you guys have a real good manager at work. And it sounds like they care about morale in your store and that is good.

 

[DisneyStitch626]

Sorry to hear she can't go. I hope you find another way.

I like a couple of those pins as well. I haven't started collecting those yet, but I was thinking about starting before we go. They used to sell them in the Disney Store closest to me, but I haven't seen them in a long time. My only option is ordering off the internet it seems.

 

[Belle Ella]

Oh geez, if we had room we would bring you with us. I love a couple of those pins. And your treasure hunt loot is cute. It sounds like you guys have a real good manager at work. And it sounds like they care about morale in your store and that is good.

I may end up keeping a couple that I like if I can't find anything else to trade them for, but in all likelihood the plan is to trade them all away (unless someone is absolutely dying to have one of them - I may be talked into parting ways with it). It all depends. First thing I have to do is actually make it to DLR!

We really do. It started when we got a new store manager and HR at the beginning of last year. They made a huge difference with things at our store. And we've been lucky enough since then to have replacements come in that see the fun we have and encourage it to continue since we've now lost both that manager and HR to another location. It's a big part of why I've stuck it out the past year or so.

Sorry to hear she can't go. I hope you find another way.

I like a couple of those pins as well. I haven't started collecting those yet, but I was thinking about starting before we go. They used to sell them in the Disney Store closest to me, but I haven't seen them in a long time. My only option is ordering off the internet it seems.

I'm hoping I can too. Unfortunately she's really the only person I know who would possibly entertain the idea of going at all. There is one other person but - the newest member of my team at work who is a huge Disney fan like me, it was crazy when we started talking the first day I was training her because we're almost the same person - but seeing as she'd be needed to cover for me while I'm gone and she's going to Vegas for her birthday on the 4th it just wouldn't happen in a million years.

I would absolutely love to go by myself again, but don't think I could swing it financially. Sure, now that my car is paid off that $213 a month extra for me but I've still got my huge tax payment to make, add in the costs of the trip itself, plus new tires for my car ... I don't think I could do it. I'll do my best though. I'll probably start begging for birthday money 2 months early.

I would just scrap the summer idea altogether and focus on October but I just requested that weekend off last week! And this way I wouldn't possibly miss any school.

Decisions, decisions.

Worse comes to worse, I guess, I just buck up and dip into my savings which I really, really shouldn't do. I'll get so much crap from my parents. But I'd make up the money faster now that I'm not paying off my car ...

Wow. I'll do anything to talk myself into this being possible.

 

[Belle Ella]

I like a couple of those pins as well. I haven't started collecting those yet, but I was thinking about starting before we go. They used to sell them in the Disney Store closest to me, but I haven't seen them in a long time. My only option is ordering off the internet it seems.

OK, so I forgot to add this part!

Ordering them online isn't a bad idea, especially when you'll be going to the parks at some point because of trading! You can get them in batches off eBay for cheap (like $1/pin + shipping) and then take them with you to the park to trade with CM's who you see with a pin that you want. It's great instead of spending $5-12 on a pin. I honestly have yet to find a pin that I was contemplating buying that I didn't find a CM with by the end of my stay. And of course sometimes they have one I never would have seen and had to have.

 

[kaoden39]

I have never gotten into pin trading. My kids have done it but I just haven't.

 

[Belle Ella]

I don't know if I classify myself as a pin trader, unless I'm going by the most basic definition. Whenever I think of pin traders I think of someone who takes it a little more seriously than I do. I collect whatever I can with Snow White on it, and this just happens to be the cheaper alternative for getting my paws on S.W. pins.

Although the cheapest alternative would be not buying any of it in the first place.

 

[kaoden39]

I don't know if I classify myself as a pin trader, unless I'm going by the most basic definition. Whenever I think of pin traders I think of someone who takes it a little more seriously than I do. I collect whatever I can with Snow White on it, and this just happens to be the cheaper alternative for getting my paws on S.W. pins.

Although the cheapest alternative would be not buying any of it in the first place.

Indeed, my mom loves, loves, loves pins. She will easily spend $100 on pins this trip.

 

[Belle Ella]

Indeed, my mom loves, loves, loves pins. She will easily spend $100 on pins this trip.

And see, that would get you around 10 pins if you get them at the park. My way, I got my 10 for a little over $10 once shipping was factored in and I have my 10 pins ready to trade for better ones (meaning ones that I want).

 

[kaoden39]

And see, that would get you around 10 pins if you get them at the park. My way, I got my 10 for a little over $10 once shipping was factored in and I have my 10 pins ready to trade for better ones (meaning ones that I want).

Well, when you put it that way she spends more money than that, she fills an entire lanyard with pins.

 

[Belle Ella]

Well, when you put it that way she spends more money than that, she fills an entire lanyard with pins.

I've been there though. This is the first time I've gotten a batch off eBay to trade for ones I want. But I never put them on a lanyard until I get home where they are hanging from something in my room until I can find a better place to put them. I hate wearing things around my neck so I have little use for that part. I'm still training myself to wear a necklace!

But anything that will possibly save me money. Hmm. My sister said she'd buy my DS off me - literally the most impulsive buy I have made in my life and I regret it every second. I would like that $125 back more than I can tell you. I'm gonna take my recycling in next week to see how much I can get from that. I need to really work on my savings for this trip if it's actually going to happen.

I need help!

 

[kaoden39]

Maybe this will help. It certainly can't hurt.

I love my DS, it has been great fun for me. I spend many hours playing it.

I hope it all works out.

 

[Belle Ella]

Maybe this will help. It certainly can't hurt.

I love my DS, it has been great fun for me. I spend many hours playing it.

I hope it all works out.

I think it just might!

See, I bought the DS just hours before my flight home from Texas last summer after watching my little sister play hers. I just wanted something to keep my mind off the flight since I am a very, very, very nervous flier (and when I say that it's an understatement). It did the job on the flight, but I haven't touched it since.

I think the big kicker when I bought it was the fact that my laptop HD had crashed that same week so I didn't have my laptop to occupy me ...

2 hour countdown to work. 6 hour countdown to the time change. Stupid DST.

 

[kaoden39]

I think it just might!

See, I bought the DS just hours before my flight home from Texas last summer after watching my little sister play hers. I just wanted something to keep my mind off the flight since I am a very, very, very nervous flier (and when I say that it's an understatement). It did the job on the flight, but I haven't touched it since.

I think the big kicker when I bought it was the fact that my laptop HD had crashed that same week so I didn't have my laptop to occupy me ...

2 hour countdown to work. 6 hour countdown to the time change. Stupid DST.

I like DST I just don't like the time change.

 

[Belle Ella]

I like DST I just don't like the time change.

I hate it period. It makes no sense to me anymore. And it doesn't help that it's always a Saturday night. That one night a week I have been working the graveyard shift for the past 3+ years.

 

[kaoden39]

I hate it period. It makes no sense to me anymore. And it doesn't help that it's always a Saturday night. That one night a week I have been working the graveyard shift for the past 3+ years.

No I know.

 

[Belle Ella]

I have to get my frustration out sometimes.

AAAHHH!!

Today has been an insane day, and I didn't even do anything. I hate days like this. But oh well.

 

[Belle Ella]

I am signing my own death warrant, ladies.

Here I am, with the future of my Disneyland summer in jeopardy and I already have multiple possible dates for a trip in early 2011. Why, oh why, do I do this to myself?

So said co-worker who could be my Disney-loving twin, let's call her Belle (because that's not confusing with my screen name or anything but she's a huge Beauty & the Beast frinatic), and I were talking about all the DLR-drama I'm going through right now and it came up how awesome it would be for the both of us to go together. With our work schedules these days we could totally pull a weekday trip. But of course, shes planning her birthday/4th of July celebration in Vegas right now. And then she got all excited because she would love to go to Disneyland on Valentine's Day - just because.

So here I am, crossing everything I can that the DIS Diva meet or the F&W meet can fall during my Spring break so I can go. Otherwise I think the priority may be with going with Belle in February 2010. Of course if we don't actually make plans for that then the Divas take over!

Like I said, I'll be dead as a doornail by midnight at the rate I'm speeding towards that brick wall!

 

[DisneyStitch626]

Well it sounds like that girl at work would be someone really fun to go with, so hopefully you can maybe work something out with her! Hopefully you can find a way to go sooner than next February. That just seems like a long time!

One question about pin trading. Can you trade any pin for any pin? I've seen pins on the site that sell for $10 and some that sell for $20. Does it matter how much the pin might be worth when you're trading it?

 

[kaoden39]

We went to the zoo today. I was using as kind of a primer to get my Mom ready to walk. We didn't get halfway through before she found a bench to sit on. And we had to come back and get her. I don't know how se is gonna handle Disneyland. It is so frustrating.