It's official! I'm addicted!

[MinnieM3]

Hi my name is Beth and I'm a Disney addict! I have to be planning a trip in some stage to be happy. I volunteer to plan trips for anyone Iknow who may be going within this century! I name drop about meeting the characters

 

[Crazy Kanga]

I too can't live without a trip in the works. Within days of returning from our October trip, we were planning our summer trip with our friends who are new Disneyholic converts. After the holidays, I always get the mid winter blahs, so we are going to have a Disney trip planning party next week and play Disney Scene It, watch trip planning videos and home movies from past trips. See you are not alone. All of us here at the Dis are right there with you. This IS your support group, but there is no talk of recovery here... only feeding the beast!

 

[SnowWhite1985]

I, too, am an extreme addict. My mother always plans our vacations, but she always makes me a copy of the schedule months in advance, and i will keep it with me, and look at it. It sounds really pathetic, but I get so excited. My boyfriend teases me because going to Disney is like the only thing that I really talk about. I am an absolute fanatic and everytime I hear a new tip or secret about it, I add it to my list. I print everything out and read it to people. Before the DIS, I never realized how many others there were besides me I agree that us Disney Fanatics are the happiest people on Earth!

 

[dreams4disney]

Hi! I am Bobbie and I too am a disney addicted. I am now planning my thrid and fourth trip to the world since July 04. I Love the planning just as much as the trip. I am glad to hear I am not alone!

 

[nativetxn]

Hi, my name is Katholyn and I'm a Disney addict

I only had two trips this year (October and December) and that was very hard on me. I had 4 trips last year and 5 the year before.

I use the DIS to help me through the months when I'm not in Orlando. Now, I'm addicted to the DIS, too

Katholyn

 

[Hockeychic]

Me too, me too.

I am officially addicted. Have been since the first visit. I just convinced hubby to go back and see Disney at Christmas....can't wait

 

[cgbsilver@hotmail.co]

OK............I am Christian and I am a Disney Addict.
I though I was alone. I use to go to Disney with my parents when I was a kid, I use to like it a lot, but now I am hooked. I have been going every year since 1999, my wife likes it a lot too and my two girls ( 6 and 2) cant wait for the next trip. Just came back from a November visit (Boardwalk and Pop Century). I am planning a September trip for 2005 and I am sure that I will be back in 2006 (Expedition Everest). I find myself planning trips for other people, is this normal or do I need help????????

Have a magical day all.

 

[lynda_oz]

Hi my name is Lynda and I am a Disney addict too. I went two times with my parents in the 70's and not again until my honeymoon in 1993. But since then I went in 1997 and was chomping at the bit to go back but could not convert my DH until........ fast forward to 1999 and our DS was born. My mom and I figured out (while I was still pregnant), when would be the best time to bring my DS to Disney for the first time. We decided that Oct 2003 would be ideal (my mom came with too, she is also an addict-it does run in families). Since this trip we have been back two more times and have two more trips scheduled between now and August 2005. I have even convinced my inlaws to join in my addiction in August. I visit these boards because it is nice to know I am not really nuts (according to all my friends and coworkers). Plus I have learned great money saving tips to hopefully allow more trips in the future. Of course, I have told my DH that as soon as our AP's expire in August I plan on visiting other places (okay you can all stop laughing right now!). I have gotten a huge kick out of reading all the posts on this thread. I am not alone!!

 

[aesalsa]

My name is Erika, and I am a Disney-holic. I am a self-proclaimed Disney-freak, AND DARN PROUD OF IT!! My co-workers at school call me the "living, breathing commercial for Disney".

The first time I went I was 7 years old, and I was hooked. I didn't have a chance to visit WDW again until I was 17. In those in-between years, I would literally tear up and cry a little every time a saw a WDW commercial or saw a Disney video (you know, you hear that little bit of the instrumental "When You Wish Upon a Star" and see the castle right before the movie begins--MAN, that stll gets me every time) or watched Wonderful World of Disney movies on ABC. I wanted to go back soooo bad.

I get depressed after a WDW vacation. I am always looking at WDW official site, DIS, and looking for codes and pricing trips--all when I'm not even in the planning stages of a trip or will be going on a trip!! One of those time was fruitful because I convinced DH while I was at work that we could go to WL/WDW for 4 nights/5 days, air-fare, luxury car service, and tickets for around $1200, tax included. My DH said "That sound's great. Go ahead and book everything." My jaw dropped when I heard those words.

So you are in good company. After all, aren't there worse things to be addicted to ?

 

[luvtoall]

I have almost as much fun planning as I do the trip, well planning last a lot longer at least.

 

[Luigi's Girl]

I too am addicted to WDW and to the disboards as well! I try to get my fix on the boards in the morning when no one else is around and at night when they're all going to sleep.
My fix when I'm not at the world is to buy Birnbaum's guide to WDW usually every January and read it cover to cover veeerrrrrry slowly, highlighter in hand to make sure I don't miss a thing for our next trip. Since I found the disboards, I keep a notebook next to the computer to jot down interesting tips so I don't forget them as I plan future trips.
Our biggest fix was to join DVC.

 

[jenjersnap]

I never in a 1000 years thought I would turn into a Disney addict yet here I am. It started as a lark, our first family trip with our two small boys after a rough patch. We came and - sorta - conquered in 12/04. Pure magic, all 4 of us got the bug hard! We came home and I kept reading the DIS board, totally jealous of all those planning a trip and lurching into a post-Disney depression. Next thing you know I've plunked two sizable deposits on DCL cruises. Then, I suggested to my DH a trip just for older DS and I to bond. "Where do you want to go, son?" "Can we go back to Disney World?" (Yeah, I was doing an internal victory dance since I was sending ESP signals! LOL). So here we - just DS and myself - are going again in early February, less than two months after our "once in a lifetime trip". Now DH is jealous of our trip (He couldn't work out the job situation to go) and suggested MNSSHP as the antidote to his depression and we're still going in December ... oh my, it's a madness I don't want to stop, at least as long as we can pay for it!

 

[wasabi girl]

You guys make me feel so much better! If you've gotta be addicted to something...then this is pretty good!

Or are we all rationalizing?

 

[Pig Pen]

I am a Disney addict too. My DH goes along with me, but the rest of my family thinks I am weird.

I will probably only get 2 trips to Disney this year as I have to go to Seattle to visit my sister in August. I want to do a WDW Christmas in 2006 though! I own DVC, but I am borrowed to the max. By December 06 I should have some points saved. If I don't have a trip in the planning stages, I will fall into a deep depression. Maybe I should try to squeeze something in before that....

 

[mbcary]

Hi, I'm Melissa and I am a Disney addict. It has sort of developed over the past couple of years. I could talk about it for hours on end and am constantly offer information to others whether they want it or not. Glad to know I'm not alone.

 

[jensenba]

Hi, My name is Allison and I'm a Disney addict. And it has gotten worse since I discovered these boards. All my life I have been teased because I like Disney so much. Currently I'm planning a Disneyland trip for the 50th in November (and taking two friend who have never been there while dragging DH kicking and screaming along) and planning our first WDW trip for my whole family in 2008. Yes, I am being teased about planning so far in advance. But I know it will be worth it. And it is nice to know that I'm not alone.

 

[scoutsmom99]

Hello Everyone I'm Lisa and I'm a Disney Addict! It started when I was a little girl...Family trips to WDW, seeing Disney classics, watching the Wonderful World of Disney with my sister on Sunday Nights, Vault Disney on the Disney Channel (Why don't they bring that back?)...oh the list goes on. I'm happy I have found a place where there are a lot of addicts like myself

 

[krystyana]

Hi everyone! I'm Chrissi and I'm a total addict too. My husband insists that i should sell for disney i'm that obsessed (he loves it too, he's just in denial!) I generally am planning the next trip before even completing the current. How could you not love this place? How could it not make you happy? I'm obsessing again right....my hubby has a serious case of the crankys and even he's like a little kid there!

 

[scrump]

Hi, also a Disney addict here. This thread is hilarious. I go with a girlfriend every couple of years or so, but would love to get my husband to go as well one day. When my girlfriend and I go, we are on ! Can't wait to go again for our 2005 Christmas trip!

 

[twinscandc]

Welcome to the Disney Addicts group, wasabi girl!

p.s. When you cry as you enter the gate of magic kingdom and your children look at you like you're crazy, you've passed your initiation into the group!

Yes, welcome to the Disboards!!

My name is Becki and I'm a Disney Addict (and also obsessed!)!!

I also believe that you truely become a member of this group when you cry entering the Magic Kingdom.....

The first time I took my DD's (age 5 at the time) along with DH and my Dear Mother, we were walking up to the castle for our PS for the Princess breakfast and Mickey and Minnie were in the castle walkway all by themselves!!! It was like they were there JUST FOR ME!! I was balling my eyes out (in fact I have tears in my eyes now just thinking about it!) My whole family was just looking at me like I had lost my mind!!! It is probably one of the best memories of my whole entire life....My girls still say "Mom, you're not going to cry again are you?" I even cry when when I see a WDW commercial and when I hear When you wish upon a star!!

Anyway....totally addicted here.....what is it with this stuff????? Are they brain washing us or what????

So...lots of love around the disboards for those of us with this disease!!

WELCOME!!