We opened our Disney box today!!!

[Dis-Wiz]

We have been saving our extra change since Christmas, for extra spending money in Disney, and putting it into a shoe box (covered in Disney decor of course ).

We opened the box this afternoon, with only a month left until our trip. The final sum was.......

$383

It really does pay off to save your change! Imagine what could be saved in a whole year!?!

Anybody else save their change for Disney trips?

 

[Mrs Grumpy]

I do!! But I think your idea is great. I can see my change in the jar I have but now I think I might try and come up with something that hides it from me and not take it in to be counted until right before our trip (a long ways off - 1196 days to be exact).

 

[libinatorsmom]

We do it... we have a big piggy bank that we are not opening until our trip... we counted it once a while back and had over 100 in it.. and we arent going for another 11 mos.... we could have quite a bit in thee... woo hoo i cant wait...

 

[wdwthreethiels]

We have been saving our extra change since Christmas, for extra spending money in Disney, and putting it into a shoe box (covered in Disney decor of course ).

We opened the box this afternoon, with only a month left until our trip. The final sum was.......

$383

It really does pay off to save your change! Imagine what could be saved in a whole year!?!

Anybody else save their change for Disney trips?

Yup, as a matter of fact DH-49 just asked for the new POTC bank, and I bought it under one condition....no coins allowed, only bills, and preferably bills larger than $1.

 

[Dis-Wiz]

Yup, as a matter of fact DH-49 just asked for the new POTC bank, and I bought it under one condition....no coins allowed, only bills, and preferably bills larger than $1.

We made a rule with our box too: No pennies allowed! I think we had 2 $20's 3 $5's and over 100 $1's. So, we had lots of change (to add up to 383). For next year's trip (hopefully there will be a trip next year), we are going to start saving right away!

 

[Schucraig]

We save change, it adds up quick! A nice bonus!

 

[kidtink]

When we were is Disney in 04 I carried around a backpack. Anytime I spent money I threw the change into the small pocket of the bakpack. When we got home from that vacation I emptied the change into our new Disney fund and started with over $9. We are going again in September.

Nothing like starting for the next trip when you are still on one...makes the magic keep happening.

 

[jennyf2]

I have a HUGE dog biscut plastic container that we use. We go on 1 big vacation once a year, so we save for almost a year. If I'm at store & my total is 2.10, I will give them 3.00 just to get the change back.

It adds up FAST

 

[Dis-Wiz]

We just rolled all the money that was in the box, plus more change that we scraped up from around the house, and we have a new total!

$426

While some money is going to christmas decorations, we have agreed that my sister and I are going to split it for extra spending money .



Only 26 more days...

 

[ericamcl]

I just took a 5 gallon water bottle (the kind that go on top of the dispenser) and made a big colorful "sign" that says "Disney Fund" and taped it to the bottle...there is also a note on there for DH to "keep out until Jan 2008"

 

[Jaelynnandmom]

We save change to It's a great way for us to buy those cute souvenirs that we really want but don't really need.

 

[freepixie]

We save our loose change too!! And I thought we were the only ones who did that!!

We save in an old shoebox, and that change turns into our money for meals (we never do the dining plan), and it always adds up quick. We usually never spend it all and bring some cash home to start saving for the next Disney trip!!

 

[Mrs Grumpy]

OK, I fixed my huge jar up so now I can't see in it. I told DH that I didn't want to dump it all out until September 1, 2010. We counted it though before we closed it up and since January I have put around $60.00 in there I should have a nice amount by the time the trip finally gets here. I noticed that DH threw a $5.00 bill in there yesterday.

 

[Handbag Lady]

We also save change. We take it to coinstar, does everyone have those? I noticed I have less change now that we have to save quarters for the laundry machine at our complex! Boo!

I can't roll them as my bank gives me stress for turning in rolled coins.

What do you do with yours to get the real cash?

 

[ashbee]

We have a glass water jug and we put change in and also a box for dollar bills. I just got done rolling our change and it was $2253. And that was with out the dollars and it was just a little over a year it took to save that and I was able to pay our whole vacation with it.

 

[Mrs Grumpy]

We have a glass water jug and we put change in and also a box for dollar bills. I just got done rolling our change and it was $2253. And that was with out the dollars and it was just a little over a year it took to save that and I was able to pay our whole vacation with it.

Wow! That is great!

Our bank has a self service coin counter. You do it all yourself and then it prints off a ticket that shows how much you have and you take it to the teller to get cash or deposit it. Works great. No more rolling coins for me.

 

[Handbag Lady]

And they don't take a small percentage out! How lucky! And convenient for you!

 

[Mrs Grumpy]

And they don't take a small percentage out! How lucky! And convenient for you!

They only take a percentage out if you don't have a account there but since we do they don't.

 

[Dis-Wiz]

We just roll our change and then bring it into the bank. If they give us a hard time, so what. There is no rule that says we can't bring in $200 worth of coins!

Until our trip comes (only 24 more days!), we are going to continue to save our 'last-minute' change. We just wanted to get most of the coins rolled so we didn't have to worry about it when the trip got really close!

I have to say, I am not surprised that so many people on the DIS save their change for trips. We DISers are so smart.

Ashbee- All I can say is, WOW! That is a lot of change!! And so many people keep saying that a Disney trip is too expensive! All you have to do is save your change for a little bit and before you know it, there is enough to pay for a whole trip!!! Ashbee, you give hope to a lot of people.

 

[ashbee]

Dis-Wiz thank you. THe only reason we are able to save so much is my husband god bless him hardly ever spends dollar bills and never uses his change so we just stick the money in the appropiate containers and when no more dollars fit in the box I count them and put them in rubber band and I roll the change when I can hardly lift the water jug. It works well for us and Disney World is always a good way to spend the extra cash.