When do you start gathering things for WDW?

[Candikayne]

Just thought I'd resurect this thread.
I have six months before my next visit. This will be our third visit in three years and I still feel the need to start gathering stuff for our return in May.

I think it's a sickness .
I have just as much fun planning for the trip as I do actually going.

Who else agrees?

 

[ebonyeyes]

I am glad to know that there are others out there that are so into thier trip to see the mouse! It's our 1st trip & I am so afraid we are going to forget something that I have already started collecting things for the vacation box....and we don't go until August!

 

[Candikayne]

It's never too soon to start gathering stuff for the trip!! Have fun packing!

 

[tracirae1105]

I think I'm ALWAYS packing for Disney trip! I keep a bin just for Disney stuff (like mini fans, travel sized toiletries, etc.) and add stuff to it little by little with each trip to Walmart or the grocery store throughout the year. That way I have everything I need by the time each trip comes around, and I didn't have to spend a ton or money all at once or run around the week before trying not to forget anything!

 

[Gina]

I have just as much fun planning for the trip as I do actually going.

Who else agrees?

See my tag. Besides, if you never fully unpack in the first place, it makes WDW seem that much closer... like you could just pick up and go at any moment, right??

Okay, yeah, it's a sickness. But I'll pass on a cure, thanks.

 

[Candikayne]

See my tag. Besides, if you never fully unpack in the first place, it makes WDW seem that much closer... like you could just pick up and go at any moment, right??

Okay, yeah, it's a sickness. But I'll pass on a cure, thanks.

I'll pass on the cure too!!

 

[MO Nurse]

I started picking things up several months ago. My DH told me I was crazy. It seemed when we needed something we would use it out of the disney luggage rather than going to the store to purchase it. Now my supply has dwendled. I plan to start picking things up again next week.

 

[BarbieGal457]

I started picking up a few things here and there as soon as I booked it back in August! I keep a bookbag in my spare bedroom open, and as me or my parents pick things up, we throw them in. It keeps everything together and out of the way. Right now, I have some disposable hanging organizers, saline solution, extra contacts, etc in there just waiting to be packed (finally in a few days!). I find that if I put things in there as I think of them, I'm a lot less likely to forget them. I keep a list so I don't rebuy things when I go to the store for last minute items, though.

 

[autumnpalm]

Last minute packer, here! I have everything we need, I just haven't gotten out the suitcases, etc. The laundry loads have started though and we have 11 days to go!!

 

[Lyric]

I start looking for things to buy the moment our Disney trip plans begin to come together! That's part of the fun. It keeps me in the "Disney Zone" until the day we leave. Not that it takes all that much to do that but buying vacation stuff is still a nice, brief escape from reality!

 

[Anna77]

I can't remember exactly when it was but I've already started packing up my toiletries, makeup snacks, batteries stuff of that nature. I'm an big forgetter and I missplace things. Get this last year I had everything together and my Mom ran down a quick check list with me. t wasen't until I got in the car I realized I forgot my hat. Well thank goodness for a hat sale at the Poly.


Anna

 

[Misty89]

i started buying things way back in Summer / Fall.....shorts and tops at 80% off, i bought some extra toothbrushes & paste that i threw in the case. ( we will wear shorts in FL, coming from home, anything above 50 will feel very balmy)
after i washed my favorite shorts for the last time this year, i packed them too.
i tend to panic = freak out towards the end that i will forget something important and have to dip into my hard earned vacation savings to buy something "dumb" ( that i forgot to pack) it happens most of my vacations, So that is why i toss things in the case when i remember them.

 

[Hollywoodhaha]

we are having a last-minute trip so we aren't booking anything until January and the trip is in March. Woe is me ...



but I already am going to start a packing list. I have all my disney stuff all over my room. My hats are there decorating my room, my pin traiding landyeard is on my wall and .. yeah

 

[disneynuts777]

I am glad to know that there are others out there that are so into thier trip to see the mouse! It's our 1st trip & I am so afraid we are going to forget something that I have already started collecting things for the vacation box....and we don't go until August!

It's our 8th trip in 5 years and I started gathering as soon as I booked the next trip (which was while we were there in Aug.!!) So that means I will have been planning for this next trip for 367 days

 

[crzyeeyoreangel]

I would love to pack right now if I could. We are not leaving until the end of April. But I am list maker and I am so afraid that I might forgot something important.

 

[Candikayne]

I'm a list maker too!
I've already purchased new luggage....check!
It keeps me from going stir crazy since the May calendar is not out yet.
Must make ADRs.....Must make ADRs

 

[Kblue]

I am not leavig for our disneymoon til June 7th (174 days to go), but I have already made a packing list. When I am online and see stuff on sale my first thought is, "Will I need this for Disney World?" Lol. I already have a bag for the parks and clothes all ready to go. My DFi thinks that I am crazy, but I don't care. He will appreciate it when we are married.