It's no secret that my boys and I are all Disney fanatics! Seth has been saving any change he finds along with birthday and Christmas money for the last 4 years already! The other boys have added here and there as well but not quite as diligently. Well we have finally set a general time frame (not exact dates but the month and year that we want to go) so I have started adding money to the fund as I can as well!
I am a HUGE planner type person! So once we set the general time frame I sat down and made this binder. There's all kinds of information in here. There are packing lists, and financial papers to keep track of our saving progress and menus to a couple of the restaurants that we hope to eat at while there.
Every two weeks I count up how much we are adding to the fund and record it on a sheet in the Disney planning binder. May 7th we were able to add $153.17 into our fund! That puts us $870.09 cents ahead of schedule!!! (Hopefully we can keep up this momentum and wont have any pay periods where we have to not add anything or not add what I planned to add) If we keep it up we might get to go earlier than I had originally planned!
WE ARE OVER 1/4 OF THE WAY THERE!!!
We have a goal of $10,000.00 and while that seems like a lot, it covers 2 adults and 4 children. I also don't feel like I have to spend that much as well. I am a bargain hunter and deal shopper, however, I would rather budget too much and have some leftover to go to the next vacation than get there and not have enough to do something that we want to do. Right now we are at $2,883.44!
As an update for the boy's jars:
Isaac- $2.01
Seth- $2.08
Ethan- $2.26
They started adding the change they find in there as well. LOL!
Under Disney Progress Tuesdays I wont always be posting about money deposits but I also have plans to make some items to take on our trip and I will be purchasing a few items as well so I will post about them as I am able.
I'm also so OCD in my planning that I will plan out the outfits we will wear and what day we will wear them so I will photograph and post those as well.
-erin-
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