How do you save for your Disney vacation? Aside from our special savings account and our Disney Visa we have a family tradition which gets the kids involved, we collect spare change. Each year we start collecting all the spare change we find or have and put it in large jars (we are big applesauce eaters). We then designate what we will use the money for when we cash it in. This year our kids chose to save for character dining (after overhearing Mom and Dad say it is more expensive this year now that our 10 year old is an "adult"). We will put our change towards dinner at Chef Mickey's and our breakfast at The Crystal Palace. Our kids get very excited to see a jar get filled and then to start a new one. They are even more excited to roll the change and make the deposit at the bank. For our upcoming trip we have $351.00 to pay for dining with our favorite "friends". Tip: encouraging your children to ask their grandparents for change every time they visit will fill the jars faster!
I like the idea of having separate jars for each part of your trip. So far we just dump it all together, but this would be a great way to motivate the kids to save as well!
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