Looking for affordable souveniers

momofdisneynut

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Please help! This will be our first trip to WDW, in fact our first family vacation ever! My teenage daughter is a real Disney nut, so I know she'll want souveniers, but we aren't going to have a huge amount of spending cash. Where can you find affordable souveniers? Are there any? Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks to all!
 
Can you buy some before you leave?? I bought some cute Mickey playing cards at the dollar store for my ds the other week. Saving them in our souvie box for our trip in December.
 
I have seen that they have really cute Mickey bracelets that look like the yellow "Livestrong" bracelets that so many people are wearing now. They come in 4 or 5 different colors, and only cost around $2.00 each. They have Mickey heads all the way around them. That is what I will be looking for when I am there next week :Pinkbounc .
 
My fav souvenirs and some are cheaper than others is Christmas ornaments. I love ornaments and have to have several everytime I go down there but I'm also very sentimental and I look at them and remember exactly when I bought them. I would reccommend buying in DTD at the outlets they have there. It's a very large store and have all kinds of things to chose from.

Another good souvie is a picture fram with her fav charcter or the year that ya'll go. I also just thought of the chocolates that come in the canisters. I buy them as presents but I have one from my very first trip in college and use it as a change jar. Have a great trip.
 

My advice, since your daughter is a teen is that you tell her, "I have X dollars that you can spend on souvenirs. You can spend this money however you want, but when it's gone, it's gone." She gets the benefit of deciding what she wants on her own and she learns a valuable lesson in budgeting.

So, I say let your daughter pick out her own souvenirs. You could offer to make some copies of your photos to give to her friends, so she doesn't feel she has to buy anything for others.

Even with as little as $20 or $25, your daughter could get one or two things that she likes -- manybe a charm bracelet and a few charms of her favorite characters. Or a stuffed character doll. Or a t-shirt.

On our recent vacation, my three year-old son saw a Buzz Lightyear spaceship he wanted on day 1 of our vacation. I had intended to buy him one t-shirt and let him pick out one reasonably priced toy. DH and I looked at the spaceship -- it was $30 and shot little projectiles, so we told DS that we would think about it and look around and maybe he could get it later in the week. About midweek, I took DS to the World of Disney store to see if they had the spaceship there. Instead of the original $30 Buzz spaceship, the WOD had a different one that was $24 and came with little figurines, but still shot a projectile. I was happier with the $24 spaceship, but knew I would have to take the darn projectiles away, so I told DS that we would keep looking and if we didn't find something else he liked better, I would buy him that spaceship in a couple days. Sure enough, the next day, DH and DS went through the Star Tours gift shop as they got off the ride and DS found a Fisher Price Ty Fighter -- it made sounds, did not shoot projectiles, and only cost $18.

Was it easy listening to my three year-old tell me over and over that he "really wanted that spaceship now"? No. But he loves that darn spaceship toy -- plays with it constantly. And he learned a valuable lesson about comparison shopping.
 
I have been purchasing items from disneydeals.com before my trip. I usually bring my co-workers back some gifts so I decided to be really thrifty and buy items such as frames and magnets from disneydeals! It will not only save me money but also alot of time looking for stuff to purchase! I have also purchased a few tee shirts and sweatshirts for me and DH...so we will avoid the temptation of buying anything at the parks. :goodvibes
 
We buy charms for DDs' charm bracelets.
 
Anyone know how much a pin trading lanyard runs at the parks? Or, where can I get them ahead of time? thanks :goodvibes
 
Hi Tinkerbelle, you can get them ahead of time at thelaughingplace.com they retail about $9 don't know what price they are in the parks tho
 
Tinkerbelle32 said:
Anyone know how much a pin trading lanyard runs at the parks? Or, where can I get them ahead of time? thanks :goodvibes

You can get non-Disney ones at the Dollar Store or Wal-Mart
 
My teenager likes to collect postcards. They are cheap. They don't take much room in the suitcase. They show a picture of where she went. And she writes on the back the date and a note about the vacation. They are the best souveniers! :cheer2: She then keeps them all in a photo box (a shoe box will do too) and from time to time we look through them and she can even bring them to show her friends unlike if it was a big bulky thing. Others have suggested things to get off disney property which we also do but she will still want something she can say truely came from WDW property. ::MinnieMo ::MickeyMo
 
My favorite souvenier is a writing pen. You can find them at any park or resort with different logos. It is something I use and they are a great reminder of our trips. I've gotten my DS14 into this too. He's a writing pen(as well as trading pin) nut. :earboy2:
 
Pressed pennies ($0.51)
Autographs of characters
Take lots of your own photos.
If you can hit the Character outlets you can really stretch your dollars there.
 
If you have access to a car, go to walmart on 192. They have a section of disney related items. we were able to get keychains cheap.
 
Since I am a Disney freak as well my husband and I have worked out a system to keep souvenir spendin on track.

During the time that I am there I will keep note of all the things that I would like to purchase. Back at the room I will write them all down along with their prices and on the second to last night add up the total. I will then figure out what I REALLY feel that I need.

We then do all our shopping on our last day in DTD.

There are always a couple of exceptions that you see in the park that are park specific but not usually things that are that expensive.

I recommended this to a co-worker and his teenage kids and apparently it worked becasue it made the child think about what it was they really wanted rather than just buying everything they saw.
 


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