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**cinderbella** · 02-14-2005

The first time DBF and I went to WDW together we were both in college and neither of us had "real" jobs......or any job really.....but we wanted to go to WDW--so we came up with the "WDW Action Plan".......we wanted to go in January, so the AUg. beforehand we were both waiters and we started putting all our change from waiting tables in an old Apple Juice Bottle....when school started in Aug and we both quit waiting tables we hide the apple juice bottle in the cloest so we wouldnt touch it...and from then on we started putting 5 dollars a week each in a lockbox...in Novemeber I made the room reservations...3 nights at ASMo...we got a discount so it turned out to be about 150 total...the tickets were about 175 total..........and then we budgeted 100 for food each...
the total was about 500.........knowing this we counted our money in the lockbox..350...we rolled our change...and we mean all of it...it turned out to be 200...we were so excitied...but still no money for souvieners...so when we were there we took LOTS of pictures.....and zoomed out of every gift shop after a ride..and we'd never even heard of these fancy resturants other than counter service (it was burgers the whole week)...and honestly it was the best trip we've ever had...of course mostly bc it was DBF first time back to Disney since he was 6..but..a lot of it had to do with the fact that we really worked for it...now that i work and DBF is still in college but works 2 part time jobs,it makes a trips a little bit easier, because we have actual money...but sometimes..being cheap isnt so bad.........
but i much prefer the trips that i am about to take.......

02-14-2005	#31 (permalink)
cinderbella Crackhead Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: south carolina Posts: 7,226	Re: Really Cheapskate Tip The first time DBF and I went to WDW together we were both in college and neither of us had "real" jobs......or any job really.....but we wanted to go to WDW--so we came up with the "WDW Action Plan".......we wanted to go in January, so the AUg. beforehand we were both waiters and we started putting all our change from waiting tables in an old Apple Juice Bottle....when school started in Aug and we both quit waiting tables we hide the apple juice bottle in the cloest so we wouldnt touch it...and from then on we started putting 5 dollars a week each in a lockbox...in Novemeber I made the room reservations...3 nights at ASMo...we got a discount so it turned out to be about 150 total...the tickets were about 175 total..........and then we budgeted 100 for food each... the total was about 500.........knowing this we counted our money in the lockbox..350...we rolled our change...and we mean all of it...it turned out to be 200...we were so excitied...but still no money for souvieners...so when we were there we took LOTS of pictures.....and zoomed out of every gift shop after a ride..and we'd never even heard of these fancy resturants other than counter service (it was burgers the whole week)...and honestly it was the best trip we've ever had...of course mostly bc it was DBF first time back to Disney since he was 6..but..a lot of it had to do with the fact that we really worked for it...now that i work and DBF is still in college but works 2 part time jobs,it makes a trips a little bit easier, because we have actual money...but sometimes..being cheap isnt so bad......... but i much prefer the trips that i am about to take....... __________________ WDW Restaurants and Resorts Moderator Bella I Deltaco. My Disney Countdown Counting down to: A baby is coming!!!! The baby is here..or at least it should be soon.