My DW and I planned a special 25th anniversary trip to WDW without the kids. We had gone with kids years before, and this time realized how much fun adults can have. That and paying off the mortgage just made it the right time for us.
I think we are a rarity having no mortgage...such a great feeling isn't it? Makes owning DVC that much more fun.
We are in a little bit different scenerio than a lot of DVC members here. I am in the process of starting my family. My DF and I will be married at Disney in December. Luckily, I found someone who is perhaps an even bigger Disney nut than I am. When I was a kid, my family visited Disney several times a year, with one trip being for 10 days, so I grew up on Disney. We decided about a year ago that DVC made sense for us, because we visited about once a month, and usually stayed at the BW or BC. We also knew that we wanted to have children, and with two Disney nuts like us for parents, we knew we would be spending a lot of our vacations there. So we decided to buy DVC now, so that when kids did come into the picture, we would have that paid for except dues, which would take a lot of pressure off of us. My logic was if we had DVC, we would never have to decide between new school clothes, or taking an overnight trip to Mickey at the end of summer. My hope is that having DVC will help allow me to provide my children with the same fond memories I have from childhood.....
14 nights at All Star Sports with a 7 and 8 year old.
We had gone to WDW in '98 for 2 weeks and didn't know a thing about DVC. It was a great trip but on the last day I felt as though coming back to WDW was not in our future for a long time. spending 14 nights in a hotel room with no place to relax after a long day in the park was not my idea of a relaxing vacation.
On the last day of the trip we were wasting time before our flight at BWV and decided to take a tour of the DVC model there. I told my wife that if she were to ever want to come back this was how we were going to do it.
We met with our guide and took the paperwork home with us. At the time I was leaving my job at IBM and even though I was young at the time (30 years old) I qualified for their retirement plan. I could wait until I was 62 to collect a check or start taking a check right away - albeit a miniscule one. I still hadn't decided what to do before we left for WDW so I put the paperwork on my desk and forgot about it.
When we came home with the DVC paperwork I put it on my desk as another thing to make a decision on. It was a couple weeks before my brain put the two together. We could buy into DVC and use my retirement check to pay off the initial cost and future maintenance cost. Done deal!
We've taken 5 trips to WDW since then and each time we do I remember the time spent IBM with fond memories
