Because of that promo, I began an annual trip to DLR on my birthday
. Sadly, I was not able to make it this year since I had plans to go to Dapper Day, which I also missed!
Anyway, I loved that! I got the gift card, which was awesome! The next year, I think, they did the "Give a Day, Get a Day" promo, where you could sign up to do some volunteer work with an organization that partnered with Disney for it. I waited a bit long to enroll and all that was left was making cat beds for an animal shelter. I thought that was a great thing to do, but what a lot of work and probably $50 out of pocket cost! I signed up every family member (6 of us) and when they sent me the info, I found out they required 20 cat beds per person and they had to be quilted with fleece on one side, cotton on the other, quilted and with batting in between. You had to supply the materials yourself. I was going to bow out but they told me I could cut it back to 10 per person. Since my kids were too little to help much and my dh doesn't know a thing about sewing, I got to make all 60 kitty beds by myself. Luckily, I got most of the material donated (friends gave me their leftover fleece) or purchased it at thrift stores (blankets). Took some time, but I did feel really good about it and it got the whole family a free day at DL, which was worth it! It did sort of bug me, though, to read about people who only had to sweep walkways for an hour or volunteer to pick up trash at a school, but that was my fault for waiting too long to sign up. I think the promo started in Jan. and by Feb. everything in my area was gone.
