Here is the grand total on the cost of our 2013 Walt Disney World vacation:

Disney Parks Play Food – $15

Disney Parks Magnet – $15

Drum from the Animal Kingdom – $17.95

Drum Stick from the Animal Kingdom – $8

Alabama Disney Pin – $8

Minnie As The Little Mermaid – $15

American Disney Hat – $20

Beach Club Magnet – $7

Disney Parks Pens – $10

Mickey Measuring Spoons – $8.95

2013 Picture Frame – $20

2013 Photo Holder  – $16

Face Painting at the Animal Kingdom – $27

Pixie and Pirate Dust at the Magic Kingdom – $10 

Mouse Ears for the 4 of us – $80 

Approximate Cost Spent on Park Souvenirs: $278

Dinner at ‘Ohanas – $125

Lunch at Rainforest Cafe – $60

Dinner at Garden Grill – $133

Groceries for the week – $132

Lunch at Sunshine Seasons the day we arrived – $62

Be Our Guest Restaurant for lunch – $45

Snacks in the Parks – $34

Total spent on food: $591

$935 – One Week in 2 Bedroom Beach Club Villa. I have a friend who was unable to use her DVC points for this year, so she was kind enough to use them to book us a week at the Beach Club and in exchange we paid her enough to cover her annual dues for the year. Since we are traveling with my mother in law and nephes, we split the bill. We are paying 2/3rds of the bill and she is covering the other 1/3rd.

$538 – 4 round trip airline tickets on Southwest.

$1389 – Approximate cost for 2 Adult Park Hopper and 2 Children Park Hopper tickets from Undercover Tourist. We went with Park Hoppers on this trip since we are within walking distance to Epcot.

Total Spent: $3731

Total Saved: $3739.48

Total Left: $8.48 to deposit into our next Disney Fund!

Overall we did great! Since we saved more than we had planned on, we indulged in some extra souvenirs like the new Mouse Ears. We use the Mouse Ears to decorate the playroom, so it was a win-win purchase for us. We did really well with eating in the room and bringing snacks to the park. I am so proud of us!

Ok y’all. It is time for my favorite deposit into the Disney Fund. The last one! I always add our grocery budget and gas budget into the fund as the trip date draws near. We won’t be using the budget for the week since we will be in Walt Disney World! So we will just spend the money there instead. Oh I am so excited!

$2 earned from Ibotta

$4.09 earned from Endorse

$150 from our Grocery Budget for the week of 1/25 – 2/1

$75 from our Gas Budget for the week of 1/25 – 2/1

$231.09 added to the Disney fund! $3739.48 saved since November 12th, 2011 (see past deposits here). Our goal was $3587!!!!!!

WE WENT OVER OUR GOAL BY $152.48!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

We leave on January 26th (see our budget here).

I want you to learn how to grow your own fund too! If you are new to couponing, start with the Getting Started Couponing Series, followed by the How To Start Your Fund series. Remember you can use these savings principles to save for anything you want from Disney trips to paying off debt to buying a new television. As the great Walt Disney said “If you can dream it, you can do it!”

$3.15 – Spare Change

$30 – Referred a friend to Vivint and we both got a check for $30. Pretty sweet!

$8.75 – Money earned during my Ibotta shopping trip.

$41.90 added to the Disney fund! $3508.39 saved since November 12th, 2011 (see past deposits here). Our goal is $3587. Going the end of January 2013 (see our budget here).

I want you to learn how to grow your own fund too! If you are new to couponing, start with the Getting Started Couponing Series, followed by the How To Start Your Fund series. Remember you can use these savings principles to save for anything you want from Disney trips to paying off debt to buying a new television. As the great Walt Disney said “If you can dream it, you can do it!”

I saved my My Coke Rewards points all year and cashed in for a lot of their awesome gift card offers! When I got the gift card, I spent the value of the card and took the cash out of my fund. So for the $10 Dominos card, I spent it and took $10 out of the Dining Out budget and put it into the Disney Fund.

$25 Walmart gift card

$10 Dominos Gift Card

$25 Best Buy Gift Card

$10 – Earned (2) $5 Target gift cards with special promotions at Target

$7.50 – Rebate check

$7.91 – Spare Change

$10 Target Gift Card – Bought $50 worth of items at Target and got a $10 gift card with the coupon (no longer available)

$16.25 –  I budget $150 a month for power. Since the bill was only $133.75, I am depositing the difference.

$43.99  – Cancelled our gym membership through the holidays. There is no way we can find the time to go for the next 3 months. Hubby works retail and there is no time! We decided to cancel it so we can rejoin with a better deal.

$26.12 – Disney Dream Dollars earned with my Disney Premier Visa this statement

$40 – Took care of my friend’s cats for a week (she went on another vacation with the inlaws). She insisted on putting the money into our fund.

$5 – Took advantage of this Totinos deal and finally got the payment

$2 – Rewards on my debit card for purchasing items at select retail locations

$5 – Hubby found it on the ground in a parking lot!

$233.77 added to the Disney fund for the past 4 weeks! $3466.49 saved since November 12th, 2011 (see past deposits here). Our goal is $3587. Going the end of January 2013 (see our pending budget here).

I want you to learn how to grow your own fund too! If you are new to couponing, start with the Getting Started Couponing Series, followed by the How To Start Your Fund series. Remember you can use these savings principles to save for anything you want from Disney trips to paying off debt to buying a new television. As the great Walt Disney said “If you can dream it, you can do it!”

$91.02 – ($45.17 for October and $45.85 for November) I budget $150 a month for power. Since our weather has been so mild lately, we didn’t use as much power so I am depositing the difference.

$50 – Received 3 different rebate checks.

$4.82 – Spare Change

$87.98 ($43.99 for Nov and $43.99 for Dec) – Cancelled our gym membership through the holidays. There is no way we can find the time to go for the next 3 months. Hubby works retail and there is no time! We decided to cancel it so we can rejoin with a better deal.

$62.23 ($29.08 for November and $33.15 for December’s statement) – Disney Dream Dollars earned with my Disney Premier Visa this statement

$35 – Received (2) Rewards Cards from AT&T for changes made on my accounts

$1.11  – Spare Change

$5.46 – Spare Change

$10 – Bought a $50 Disney gift card at Target and got a $10 gift card with the coupon (no longer available)

$31.54 – Returned items to Walmart that we found when we were packing that we never used. Got the refund on the gift card

$40 – Took care of my friend’s cats for a week. She insisted on putting the money into our fund.

$10 – Publix offered a $50 gas gift card for $40 with a $50 purchase. I took advantage and I am putting the $10 difference in my fund.

$5 – Took advantage of this deal (appears to be dead now) and scored a FREE stocking stuffer. I had been debating on buying it anyways, so I put the $5 I saved into the fund from the gift budget.

$434.16 added to the Disney fund for the past 7 weeks! $3232.72 saved since November 12th, 2011 (see past deposits here). Our goal is $3587. Going the end of January 2013 (see our pending budget here).

I want you to learn how to grow your own fund too! If you are new to couponing, start with the Getting Started Couponing Series, followed by the How To Start Your Fund series. Remember you can use these savings principles to save for anything you want from Disney trips to paying off debt to buying a new television. As the great Walt Disney said “If you can dream it, you can do it!”

$43.73 in cash back from ShopAtHome.com

$10 rebate check

$22.54 in spare change (we found a bag in the attic when we were cleaning out that had a ton of change in it! No telling how that bag got into the attic and it’s been there for at least 4 years.)

$20 – offered 2 friends a ride and they gave me gas money. I told them I would put it in the fund since I was driving there anyways.

$43.99 – Cancelled our gym membership through the holidays. There is no way we can find the time to go for the next 3 months. Hubby works retail and we are moving next month, so there is no time! We decided to cancel it so we can rejoin with a better deal.

$2.50 – Earned Fuel Perks at Winn Dixie and used them at Shell. I love Fuel Perks!

$26.52 – Disney Dream Dollars earned with my Disney Premier Visa this statement

$49.86 – Because we have stockpiled so much food in the past few months, we didn’t have to do a lot of grocery shopping the past couple of weeks. My daughter had to make an unexpected visit to the Dentist, and since we had so much food, we decided we would take the dentist bill out of the grocery budget and eat out of our stockpile as much as we could. We paid the bill, put $40 in my children’s lunch accounts (they get lunch at school only on Fridays, so this money will last them through Christmas) ate out of the stockpile and still had $49.86 left!

$219.14 added to the Disney fund this week! $2803.56 saved since November 12th, 2011 (see past deposits here). Our goal is $3587. Going the end of January 2013 (see our pending budget here).

I want you to learn how to grow your own fund too! If you are new to couponing, start with the Getting Started Couponing Series, followed by the How To Start Your Fund series. Remember you can use these savings principles to save for anything you want from Disney trips to paying off debt to buying a new television. As the great Walt Disney said “If you can dream it, you can do it!”

We are less than 6 months from our vacation date, so it’s time to really buckle down and get serious about the Disney Fund. I decided to go through all of the deposits I have made so far and make a list for both my reference and yours.

I broke each deposit down by category. Be sure to check out the training series I have on how to start your fund.

Left From Other Vacations

• $99.18 left from the November 2011 Disney trip on my Disney Rewards Card
• $100 – Hubby took the kids and his mom to Texas for a week to visit her family (I stayed here at home to work on the blog and do other things around the house). He came in under budget so we are putting that money towards Disney!

Gift Cards That I Turned Into Cash For The Fund
(Confused on how I deposit gift cards? Check out this post.)

• $10 Target gift card
• $25 American Express Shop Small gift card (spent $25 at our local mom and pop grocery store and took $25 from the grocery fund and put it in the Disney fund)
• $20 gift card from the MasterCard Holiday Promo (Took $20 out of the gas budget and used this gift card to buy gas. Put that $20 in cash in the fund.)
• $10 from a CVS gift card
• $10 – I got a Publix gift card in the mail. I used it to pay for my groceries last weekand took $10 in cash out of the grocery budget to deposit to my fund.
• $20 Visa gift card for a Samsung rebate from Christmas time
• $100 Walmart Gift Card from Christmas (I used it at Walmart and took $100 in cash out of our grocery budget. Details here.)
• $10 iTunes gift card (took $10 out of our entertainment fund and spent this gift card in it’s place.).
• $30 in Target and Publix gift card (took $30 out of our grocery fund and spent these gift card in it’s place. See more about how I add gift cards to my fund).
• $35 – Winn-Dixie had a sale where you got $5 off a $50 gift card. I bought 7 $50 Shell gift cards and paid just $315 for $350 worth of gas. I took the $350 out of our monthly gas budget and replaced it with gift cards. I added the $35 in cash to the fund.
• $5 Mcdonald’s Gift Card for completing a survey
• $5 gift card to Target (took $5 in cash out of the grocery budget to put in the fund and spent the gift card)

Disney Gift Cards That I Earned

• $20 Disney Gift Card (from Disney Movie Rewards; no longer available)
• $100 Disney gift card (Winn-Dixie had a promo where if you bought $300 in gift cards, you got $50 off. So we took 10 weeks worth of gas budget ($50 per week) and bought $500 in Shell gift cards. We also bought a $100 Disney gift card which was free after the promo, giving us $100 to put in our fund!)
• $50 Disney Gift Card – I took $450 from the fund and turned it into $500 in gift cards at Winn Dixie. They were running a promotion where you got $5 off a $50 gift card. So I did it 10 times and ended up with $50 extra for the fund. The manager didn’t even know there was a sale on gift cards that week. I guess I am the only person in Trussville, AL that looks for them.
• $40 Disney Gift Card for taking an online phone tour of the DVC (received it with my Disney Visa statement)
• $25 Disney gift card that I purchased with what was left from our gas budget last month (yay for staying at home)
• $50 Landry’s Gift Card earned through MyPoints (good at both Rainforest Cafe and TREX at Downtown Disney; Took about 6 months to earn.)

Rebate Checks

• $32.84 in cash back from ShopAtHome.com
• $20 from Serve.com
• $5 from Magazines.com rebate
• $15 in No Beer Purchase Rebates (3 $5 rebate checks)
• $30.00 Kohl’s Rebate from Christmas Shopping
• $15 check from Kellogg’s
• $9.99 Staples Rebate
• $30 rebate from buying a Philips razor for hubby for Christmas
• $10 NBPR rebate
• $10 NBPR rebate
• $20 NBPR rebate
• $5 NBPR rebate
• $25.64 in cash back from Ebates (for Christmas Shopping)
• $5 from Saving Star
• $20 in various rebate checks
• $3.59 Rebate for Lysol Wipes
• $20 in Rebates
• $28.67 in cash back from ShopAtHome.com
• $5 Mail in Rebate

Misc Money From Other Areas Of The Budget

• $7.54 credit from overpaying a bill (when I paid it off)
• $19.69 – Overpaid a bill (when I paid it off)
• $10 refund from a doctor’s co-pay we didn’t owe
• $10 Co-Pay Reimbursement
• $60 reimbursed from the Doctor’s office. We all ha the flu at the beginning of the month and had to all 4 go to the doctor. We have to pay a $15 per person co-pay but then the doctor’s office sends it back. So I used the grocery budget for that week to pay it (since we were so sick we didn’t go shopping much).
• $5.02 left from the grocery budget
• $8.97 left from the grocery budget (We spent $19.28 at Chick-Fil-A on Saturday. This was what was left after all of the week’s grocery and out to eat trips. Check out my Bargain Brags.)
• $100 from the budget for my son’s tuition. We thought we would have to pay $200 for May but were surprised to find out it was only $100.
• $28.15 difference from the power bill (we budgeted $175 and we came in under that, yay!)

Creative Deposits

• $38.00 for diapers sold to a friend
• $15 for mileage reimbursement from my husband’s job
• $126.65 from Survey Savvy for various surveys completed over a few months

Spare Change

• $79.67

Grand Total: $1583.60 deposited since November 12th, 2011.