How To Start Your Fund
So you’ve decided you want to Coupon to Disney? Congratulations! Now that you understand the basic principles of saving, it’s time to start putting the money you save in your fund. This series should teach you how to start a fund, keep track of it and provide you with unique ways to add to it.
How To Start Your Fund
- Evaluate your bank account
- Check to see if your current accounts offer rewards
- Lower your existing bills (more here)
- How to set a budget
- What is Found Money
- Break your dollars and save your change
- Cash in that change for free gift cards if you don’t want to roll it
- Save gift cards
- Save Birthday/Christmas Money
- Sign up for the Disney Chase Visa (if you want)
- Evict pennies from your fund
- Eliminate cable
- Cut down on fuel expenses (Buying gas at Kroger and Giant Eagle)
- Cut out small purchases to get big savings
- Purchase gift cards as you go
- Challenge yourself to save $1 a day
- Do you really need that gym membership?
- Look for lost change
Ways to add to your fund
Sell Items
- How to have a yard sale
- Selling at consignment sales (how to)
- Selling with consignment shops
- Selling items on Craigslist
- Sell items on Ebay
- Trade in electronics
Earn Online
- Earn Rainforest Cafe gift cards with My Points
- How to use Swag Bucks to Coupon to Disney
- How to use Amazon to Coupon to Disney
- Where to legitimately earn cash online
- Survey companies that I have been paid by
- Make money shopping online with cash back sites
More Ways to Save
- How to add cash to your fund with rebates (plus check out my list of rebates)
- Mystery shopping
- Using your Discovercard
- Recycling aluminum cans
- Split the cost of your meal with a coworker
- Buy sodas for work
- Add bottle deposits to your fund
- Save quarters for your fund
- Buy gift cards
Don’t miss the Extra Cash posts
Where To Store Your Fund
Where to keep your fund and more places and even more places
Want to find out how to find even more money in your budget? Be sure to check out all the articles in the your fund series.
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