Okay how are you saving for your trip!

[Savin4Disney]

Well now that I booked. I have to come up with the rest. I do have a tiny plan in motion but wondering how you are saving for your trip!


1. Saving coins in jar
2. Saving dimes in wine bottle
3. Have 1,000 in flex will use that once I have the medical bills
4. taking lunch to work, DS lunch to school
5. Coupons when shopping
6. Having a rummage in Summer

Now what are you doing!

 

[Traveliz]

Pick up DIsney dollars here and there.
We drive so plan our stops where I can use Marriott points to pay.
Buy gift certicates I can use there...just got $50.00 in RFC that came with a free volcano.

Liz

 

[bigbabyblues]

Since I'm trying to move our trip up to November, I'm still:

saving change (jar is almost full!)
going to have a yard sale in the spring
working extra hours when DH is off and save the extra

Steph

 

[Savin4Disney]

going to the mall today for a skirt for tonight. Going to pick up some more Disney dollars. Using those for spending and food that not covered in dining plan.

 

[Mady/Sophiemom]

I just picked up about 60 hours of overtime, at work. That will cover about 2/3 of our trip. UGGG!!! Its going to be a very long 6 weeks. But definately worth it.

I worked 18 hours on New Years Day, (all double time) as well as 13 more on the 2nd. My co-worker asked " So when are you going to Florida?" I about fell off my chair. Apparently, everyone at work knows, when Kim picks up OT, she must need a disney fix. I was the topic of discussion at lunch.

Now hopefully, nothing in our house, or driveway, will break down.

 

[aka-mad4themouse]

Aside from the coin jar:

• Using a rewards credit card for just about anything that I can. Even at only 1% back, it can add up quickly over a year's time.
• Doing rewards programs like Creations Rewards, Click to the Magic and MyPoints for Webcertificates and Disney Dollars. I also do surveys for a number of online groups and participate in a local survey group that holds focus groups on a regular basis. I once got paid $65 to eat ice cream and talk about it for an hour.
• eBaying off and on. I find that taking the pictures and writing descriptions are the hardest part of being an eBayer.
• Putting all my savings into my ING Savings Account. The interest rate is the best around and the Bonus referral is a nice little incentive as well.
• Cut the heat back. Just 1º lower helps to cut heating costs. Even though the savings don't go directly into my "Disney Fund", it does help me to put an extra $10/month into my ING account without feeling the pinch.
• Cut back on errands and consolidate trips. This has two purposes: it saves on gas plus with fewer trips out, I make fewer impulse buys. This is especially true for the grocery store. I used to run to the store just about every other day for milk and cereal. Of course, I was also picking up other things as well. It's so much easier to buy those chicken breasts out of the butcher case than it is to defrost the ones in my freezer. Now, I shop only once per week. If I need milk during the week, I just stop at a convenience store during one of my scheduled trips. My monthly food bill have gone down considerably since doing this.

There are probably a lot of other things I'm doing because WDW is an obsession for me. But these are probably the ways that are getting most of my Disney money into the bank.

 

[golfgal]

We will take what we need out of our savings account, but we have a jar that we are collecting change that we will use for extras--probably give the money to the kids for souviners, etc.

 

[amyup]

I'm like everyone else:

Coin Jar
Save a few dollars here and there and put in the coin jar
Any extra days I substitute teach goes into Disny account
Ing account that I deposit $$ into every month

 

[estherhead]

I'm baking wedding cakes. I just started a small wedding cake business and hope it will pay for our trip. It ends up being about 50% profit and I already have 3 spring weddings at an average of $250.00 each. Plus I'm teaching Weight Watchers classes and cake decorating classes in the evenings sporadically. Those checks go right into savings. Plus my tax return. Hopefully, that ought to pay for it all! (we just turned in our coin jar $96!)

Esther

 

[Savin4Disney]

We all have some great ideas. I did have to buy clothes for a party tonight. I made sure I bought something that I could wear to work afterwards. Got it all on sale.

gonna think of more ways to raise the money. All my tiny child support checks and survery money goes to Disney.

I am also doing creation rewards.

 

[Tabetha]

I have a certain amount automatically deducted from my midmonth pay that goes into a cashable GIC (CD to Americans).
I put $50 per paycheque into a U$ savings account.
Bring my lunch to work.

 

[Julia M]

My Disney rewards card is at $530...I hope it will be over $700 when we go in December.

I plan to charge part of my room (one night worth every month) onto my charge, and try to have it become part of the "household charges). I keep track of how much I spend, and am hoping this will make me cut down in general spending.

I am also buying $50 worth of Disney dollars each month.

Because our trip is at Xmas this year, I will also be dealing with the Xmas gifts for families and friends. So, I've made a list of who I might give gift cards to, and how much, and where, and I'm going to try and buy one a month. (We live in CA, so the cards have no expiration)

To cut down my spending money, I am bringing a little fridge we own to work, to keep drinks in. Dh bought me one of those 1 cup coffeemakers, so I'll use that, and keep flavored creamers in the fridge. I waste SO much money on diet cokes and coffee!!

I'm staying out of Target on my days off!!

Julia

 

[chasbos]

I do things a little different! Our trips are just part of our annual household budget. I take $500/month and it gets put into an account that I never use, that way when the year is up the trip is paid for and it is only the costs of meals, snacks and other things to pay for. We leave in 2 weeks for our cruise that I have had paid for since September!

 

[chrismiss56]

I use a coin jar and never spend dollar bills. When I get either back as change I will automatically put them in a coin jar and envelope. When the envelope has 50 singles I exchange them for a $50 bill. Also used to have Starbucks everyday. Now anyday (which is most) I don't go to Starbucks I put $5 in a different envelope.

Also when grocery shopping at the bottom of the receipt they print how much you saved using coupons or the store's discount card. I take that money out of my wallet and put in an envelope.

Now that I have an ING account all this money will be going in that account!!

Still looking for more suggestions??

Have a Magical Disney Day!!

 

[Julia M]

I do things a little different! Our trips are just part of our annual household budget. I take $500/month and it gets put into an account that I never use, that way when the year is up the trip is paid for and it is only the costs of meals, snacks and other things to pay for. We leave in 2 weeks for our cruise that I have had paid for since September!

That's a good plan.

I do that also, but we have a week in San Diego planned, a competition trip with dd and I for baton to the midswest, taking dd to Baton Worlds in Minnesota, and an 80th birthday trip for my aunt to Las Vegas, and "the boys' (my husband and ds's) are going to Houston and San Antonio........those trips used my vacation budget.

I have to pay for my Disney trip in a different way!

Julia

 

[zachsmomie]

Of course the trusty change jar (that always seems to get raided!!)

We decided that all our Christmas purchase rebates would go directly to Disney Dollars so we can't spend them (That totaled $185.00) Then we bought my son a new computer at Office Depot this week and it had $450 in rebates and we just got back from Best Buy where we got a monitor(reg $99) with $30 mail-in rebate and $30 Best Buy Gift Card rebate. So we will have over $600 from rebates. And a new computer with a new monitor for a total of $160.00 not too bad!

 

[Aspen]

[*]Putting all my savings into my ING Savings Account. The interest rate is the best around and the Bonus referral is a nice little incentive as well.

Could you please tell me what a ING Savings Account is? Thanks!

 

[MeredithJ]

Aspen--ING is an online bank where you can open a savings account. If you get a referral from an existing ING member, you can get a $25 bonus just for opening the account. That's how I got started with mine. They are currently paying 2.35% interest, so it's a good way to save money. There is an ING FAQ thread at the top of the board that will probably give you any other information you need.

Meredith

 

[remyandhollandsmommy]

Change Jar
EBay (made a few $$$ so far)
I also put aside some $ from each paycheck (I treat our trip as a bill LOL)

All of that goes into our savings acct to collect interest.

 

[missmulan]

i do

1. coin jar - get about $40-50 every 2 months, not much
2. put at least $300 into ING Direct, this works well
3. sell on ebay here & there, i make pretty good money here too

that's about it...i wish i can do more. i tried yard sales but people who come to those are usually the type that want something for nothing.