This Couponing to Disney story comes from my reader Jessica..
I started following your blog about 1 year ago. I had been couponing for about 3 years and had finally gotten a good flow going. I started to consign my children’s clothes, garage sale items we didn’t need or put a free ad in the paper, signed up for about 3 really good survey companies (per your recommendation of course), and submitting even more rebates than before, because of your website and all the wonderful information for these items.
In the 3 years prior to discovering your site, I would just deposit the money in our checking account to never see it again. When I started separating the money from surveys, sales, and rebates I managed from July of 2011-Mar of 2012 to save a little over 800.00 dollars. We were able to book a 7 night 8 day cruise in March and while I didnt have enough to pay for the cruise, I was able to buy plane tickets, book a hotel for one night before cruise, rent a car for travel between airport/hotel/port terminal, parking, some vacation clothes, and even enough left for spending money.
If if wasn’t for all you have taught me in the last year I would just be a regular couponer who was just saving a little on groceries. With your knowledge and site I have now cut my grocery budget to where it should have been years ago, will be going on a disney cruise and will continue to follow your site because without you and all you do, my family wouldnt have been able to enjoy a real stress free vacation on the new disney fantasy cruise ship. I can say with Kristin and her site couponingtodisney my family is better for it. So thank you and all you do.
I absolutely love this site and everyone on it! I just started following a few weeks ago, and thanks to Kristin and her awesome ideas, I have saved an extra $20 in our Disneyland fund! There is also so much great info, I will be able to plan ahead for expenses for our 2014 trip! Thanks so much for all the great work!
Thats awesome Jessica! Kristin thanks so much, I started follwoing three weeks ago, I have about $16 put into our “couponing to a new deck” fund just from retraining my thinking due to your site, Ive always been an avid couponer adn did put money I got form surveys and rebates into a different account but not always religiously I have found a reputable mystey shopping company thanks to this site(firstshop next week) and joined mypoints to put toward our fund, after the deck were goig to start saving for a cruise (most likely disney for the lil guy) THANKS!!!!
I also get tons of info and more importantly encouragement from you Kristin and your followers. I am struggling so much to meet daily needs that I do not desperate my savings. I think after reading Jessica’s story I will. Not ready for a stress free vacation, but it would be nice to see something paid off!
* desperate. Lol my comp is responding to my subconscious it won’t let me correct my error!
That’s wonderful! Jessica!! I just started following the site just about a month ago and we are taking our first family vacation to Disneyland at the end of December through beginning of January for New Years. I gave up on really using coupons in the middle of last year and saw how we were just throwing money away. We’ve been wanting to take the kids to Disneyland for the past few years and gave up until I found this site. Now we’re getting back on track thanks to Kristin’s amazing advice and knowledge and are able to really watch what we spend and learn to save our money rather than waste it by couponing. Thanks!
Awesome!!! We started following the site about a year ago too. Coincidentally, we just booked our first Disney Cruise too. After years and years of “oh, we could NEVER afford to do THAT…” , your site helped us make it happen. We follow other savings sites too, but yours was instrumental in teaching us how to separate it all out. Thank you!
Wow, that’s a great story, I love it!! Likewise, I also love Kristin and this site and all she does. This site increases the quality of life for ALL of us. Thanks so so so much!
Aw, thanks! :)