We opened our Disney box today!!!

[mom2mykids]

That sounds so neat! A couple years worth of change is REALLY going to add up! Is there something particular you are going to buy with the money? Or is it just spending money at Disney?
We originally planned on buying all Christmas stuff with the money in our box, but we decided to split it up and just use it for extra spending money.

We are driving down to Disney so I was thinking we would use for the room on the way down and back.

 

[bnf2]

How funny I found this thread... the kids and I literally just sorted and counted the change in DH's change jar!!! It's only been 2-3 months since we last counted so we only had $42, but we still have 6 months before we go!

We have ours in a large, red, plastic Folgers (I think) coffee container. It was already red with a black lid so we just added a nice picture of the castle on the front. You'd never know it was a coffe can!

 

[Dis-Wiz]

Since we don't use the pennies we find for our Disney box, we just save the real shiny ones for making pressed pennies.

We haven't gone to the bank yet; the rolled up money in still sitting here, LOL. So we decided to continue to save our change until we go to the bank. I think we already saved up a good $10 in the passed couple of weeks. Not an awful lot, but to think there's about 35-40 quaters and several dimes saved up in just a couple of weeks, that's pretty good.

I'm thinking that next year, we are going to save up the change in one of our popcorn buckets we got at Disney. We have about four of them in the back of our cupboard. We wanted to save them, but we aren't getting any use out of them.

 

[mom2mykids]

We have lots of peenies in our "rocket" I think I will take out a bunch of shiny ones for the pressed pennies. Does anyone know where I can find a list of all the pressed penny locations? Disney use to sell books to put your pressed pennies in, do they still? I'm so excited, we don't go until Sept!

 

[milleali]

We save EVERYTHING from the brown money to the green money. We have a tall Pepsi bottle bank that we save everything in. In 2005 we saved like $600. I am hoping that we will have about the same for this December. My little on knows that whatever he finds laying around the house to put in the disney fund bank. So we have to be careful where we lay our money around or he will pick it up and put it in the bank. And there goes my lunch money for the week.

 

[PigletGurl]

I saved $290.00! For myself! My sister saved alot too! She saved like $350.00!!! So that's a total of $640!!! We leave in 1 day so I'm ready to go with my money.

 

[ThunderMTexpert]

we've got piggy banks out the wazuu saved up for DISNEY WORLD!! we average about 150-200 per pig, and since we've gotten engaged (april 2006) we've saved up over 5 piggy banks in loose change and extra bills!! WOO HOOO!! we're waiting on this next one, and we should have it JUUUUST about full!! DFiance LOVES to count it out, even though the bank'll do it for ya'!! see ya'll in 96 days at POP century!!

 

[Dis-Wiz]

We have lots of peenies in our "rocket" I think I will take out a bunch of shiny ones for the pressed pennies. Does anyone know where I can find a list of all the pressed penny locations? Disney use to sell books to put your pressed pennies in, do they still? I'm so excited, we don't go until Sept!

Go to this link, it states where all the pressed penny machines are and includes
pictures! It also says that the books for the pressed pennies are $7.00. I am not sure how old this site is, but I would imagine that they keep it updated, since it is an "unofficial guide."

http://www.wdisneyw.co.uk/pressed.html

 

[mom2mykids]

Thanks Dis-Wiz. I did a search and found this one too:
http://home.earthlink.net/~presscoins/Listings/WDWChecklist.pdf
on the home page it says it was updated in January or Feb. Its a nice list you can print out and take with you.

 

[Dis-Wiz]

Thanks Dis-Wiz. I did a search and found this one too:
http://home.earthlink.net/~presscoins/Listings/WDWChecklist.pdf
on the home page it says it was updated in January or Feb. Its a nice list you can print out and take with you.

Now that's neat!

I have gotten several pressed pennies during our trips to WDW, but I have never tried to get them all. That seems like a fun quest!