Thank goodness I can confess to the DIS!

[off to neverland]

Thank goodness I can come and confess my secrets to my fellow DVC addicts! My husband and I have not told a soul, but....

One month after buying 150 points at SSR and becomming members, I got a really, really bad case of add-on-itis. The annual passes made me drool and gave me worry-that-we'll-miss-out-on-them headaches, and I kept mentioning it to my husband.

He thought I was crazy at first, and then got more tolerant of the idea. Then we had a really busy week, and I actually sort of forgot about my bad case of add-on-itis.

Well, I take that back. I didn't forget it. I just got distracted from it.

So one day, out of the blue, husband calls and says, "honey, I've been thinking about your itchy add-on-itis and I think we should treat it now, before it festers..........."

Well, I take that back. He didn't really say it like THAT. But my version is more entertaining than his, "hey, let's buy s'more points."

So, on my way to the airport to pick up my visiting family, I called Bernard at DVC (I have him on speed dial on my cell phone AND my home phone, just in case..... is that sick, or what?) and whispered my credit card number to him so he could put down my $500 toward 130 more points.

And I've been add-on-itis free ever since! It feels great. The only problem is, except for all 70,000 of you, I don't dare tell a soul........

Shhhhhhhh..................

 

[Wish I lived in Fl]

I'm so jealous. MY DH doesn't want to prepay anything. Not even buying Christmas presents before Dec. 20th.

 

[crazywig]

congratulations!

i've been trying to figure out a way to buy more points ever since we bought in last year! add-on-itis is hard to shake!

 

[WithDisneySpirit]

I sure can relate. As soon as we passed ROFR last April, the add-on bug was biting me

DH kept saying "We have to wait at least until we make our first trip and check it out!!!" So, we went in mid Oct and had an incredible trip The bug continued to bite me until DH finally relented and said we could buy another resale. Now the problem is, do I really want different UY

Oh well, what a problem to have

Thanks for confessing to us fellow Dis DVC'ers

Lisa

 

[bobbiwoz]

Congratulations!

Bobbi

 

[Happy Birthday Cat]

As a family who has added on 6 times, welcome to our world!

HBC

 

[WDWJWEB1]

Congratulations Rae on your add on,

2 or 3 more add ons and you might stop the itch(ha ha)

p.s: You should give your hubby an extra big "hug" for this one!

 

[Laurabearz]

280 points is a great number to work with! Congrts!

 

[spiceycat]

now you can stay in 1-bedroom instead of the studio....

this is not addicition - it is just good planning....
yea right...

Congratulations and Welcome Home Again!!!

 

[CRSNDSNY]

Congratulations raewhid! That's great!

 

[beequeen]

Congratulations on your add-on. I've had it too and add-on-itis is a terrible condition with only one cure!

 

[Credit Man]

Congratulations on your add-on!

 

[dis-happy]

Your secret is safe with us!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

 

[slk537]

I hear you and I agree!

We bought 160 points on our last trip to WDW...within a week of getting home we had our contract redone to add 50 points so we'd have 210. Well...when the AP deal came out my husband pondered and one day called me at work and proposed another 140. It was crazy - insane - you name it, but I agreed and we are now the proud owners of 350 points. I hope we stop here for a while, but he dreams of 500...yikes!!!

 

[off to neverland]

Thank you all for all the nice words....

Wdwjweb1, don't worry, hubby will be well rewarded (wink, wink)!

Happy Birthday Cat, in what kind of time frame were your 6 add ons?

Lisa, I bet buying resale add ons is even more fun than going through Disney.... the browsing, the shopping, the watching of the websites for a good deal with the right use year.... What fun, what fun!!!!! (And since this is thread is about confession, I'll come clean: I HAVE been stalking the resale sites even though I've known we would buy through disney for the annual passes!! I think it's just another symptom of the add-on-itis bug.)

 

[Disney1fan2002]

I hear ya! When we bought, our tour took 3 hours, because of how long it took us to crunch numbers to figure out what we would "need" We came up with 170 points. 6 months later, and not even taking our 1st trip home yet, we knew 170 would not be enough. We bought a 300 point resale, and have not had the urge to add on since.

OK< briefly, the free AP's for adding on at SSR was tempting, but we bought some great add-onitis itch cream, and haven't had a problem!

 

[LeftCoaster]

Your secret is safe with us! I did the 130 point add on at SSR. Well, I needed a new AP anyways! So, my friends and co-workers no about the add on but, I kept it from my family. Most of them thought I was crazy for buying in the first place.
I will be taking my sister and her family next October and maybe after that trip I can say something.

 

[goofy4dvc]

One thing about add-on-itis. There is no cure!! It comes back with no warning and demands further treatment.

 

[WithDisneySpirit]

It is fun, although sometimes I am impatient (must be that bug, pushing me along ) I told myself yesterday, no need to hurry...

Have great fun with those AP's

Lisa

 

[ClarabelleCow]

Well I totally forgot to tell DH that I did it!!! I was waitlisted for more points through DVC, then we couldn't do it, then waitlisted again, they came through, it was a small amount, so they went straight to the credit card, (Disney of course), then we got busy with work, kids schedules, etc, and I never mentioned a word, then DH went on his ramblings how we are not saving money (daughters horse spends it all!!!), then the Fedex package came, I thought I was going to die!!! for 3 days I didn't mention it to him, then I caught him cold in the office one day, and said, here sign these, (I had seriously thought about signing myself, but I knew it would come back to get me), told him we discussed this ages ago, agreed on it, and it finally came through! He said, okay, signed and left!!! It has not been mentioned since! Though I still want to jump around in excitment, I'm just laying low! at least until our next trip in February!