Vacation Fund - ZERO!

So I am pretty excited!  I drained the vacation fund and booked our Disneyland trip last week.   I am now back to zero and everything made from here on out will cover the hotel stay on the trip (we drive there) and for meals and odds/ends in the park.  It's so nice to know that this is being done with cash!

 This is pretty much how every picture of our trip went last time.  My little guy Greg can't but help make goofy faces.  He is really thrilled to be tall enough to ride Indiana Jones this year.  He missed it last time by an inch!

Lauren is tall enough to ride almost everything, with a few exceptions.  So glad she can go on Soarin over California with us - that and California Screamin are my favorite rides!

Speaking of which, I am totally bribing Graham to ride on it with me.  Last time I had to single ride it with some random.  I think he needs to man it up at 9 years old and take the roller coaster plunge!  

  (Or not, we'll see.  I certainly won't make him if he gets nervous and says no.)

The best part is that I won't have to cry for 2 hours in the car after dropping off Lauren at her grandparents house.  It will be her first time going!  I booked a lunch at Ariel's Grotto so we could meet all the princesses at once and not have to search the park for them.  She LOVES the princesses!

This has been a busy year with going to garage sales every Saturday, collecting inventory for my ebay store, etc.  but knowing this was the reason is the BEST feeling ever. 

Vacation Fund!

Our little jar of change on Dan's dresser was hardly full, but I know my husband's love for soda and how that change could disappear quickly.  I took it in to the bank with me today and it added up to $18.94!

I deposited that in our vacation fund.  It's growing slowly but surely!  I have over a year to add to it.  It's going to feel SO GREAT to pay for our vacation up front in cash!!

Grand Total is now $311.94

Vacation Fund!

One of my beer rebate checks came in the mail today!  Whoo hooo!

I added the $6.00 from that to our fund.

I also kicked, screamed and cried about it, but I sold Lauren's car seat and cover.  Think I'm being silly?  Look at how beautiful it was...

It's one thing to know you are done having babies and a whole other thing to get rid of the baby things.  I get sentimentally attached to things like this and her clothes.  Thankfully it went to someone who was just as excited about it as I was when I first got it and I know it was needed. 

Snif. Snif. 

So another $25 to the fund.

Making a grand total of $235.00 earmarked for Disneyland without a single penny coming from our paycheck! 

Vacation Fund!

 I am dying to pack the minis in the car and take off to Disneyland for a week.

Too bad the budget says otherwise!

But progress is being made!!

This week I added to our vacation fund:

$20.00 from a wedding that I did flowers for

$40.35 from a random check I received

$13.81 from our change jar

Bringing our grand total to:

$194.00!

This has gone slow but has been absolutely effortless!  We still have an entire year to save so I am positive at the rate we are going that we can pay cash for this trip!  

Love it!

Vacation Fund!

As of now, the plan is to take all three minis to Disneyland for three days next winter sometime for Greg's 6th and Lauren's 4th birthdays.  

To do this we need at least $1400 by the time we pay for gas, hotels, meals, tickets and souvenirs. 

So I started up a small little savings account to put spare change in to start saving.  I'd like to pay for the whole trip in cash. 

Call me crazy. 

I added another $12.62 in the account this morning just from Dan's change jar.  

So we are now up to $106.84 just from loose change!

I'm expecting a few rebates back in the mail and will add those to the fund as well. 

Yee-HAW!!

First Deposit Made!

Our chump change jar has a new purpose.  

I'm stealing it everytime it gets full and taking it straight to the bank for our new vacation fund!

The ladies moan and groan when they see me coming but I'm nice and help count it out. 

First Deposit - $45.04!