Well I've gotten gas savings and room savings started, now it's about time for the other savings. This includes stuff we need to bring with us, and souvenirs!

I'm sure everyone knows how expensive park souvenirs are, especially at DW. So again, after reading the budget board on a Disney forum, I've taken a bunch of other peoples' ideas and I'm using them for us!

1. At the hotel we're staying at, there's a $10/day charge for a mini fridge. But ice is free ...

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OK now for the gas part. Mark thinks we should bring $400, and that'll be pushing it. We get about 300 miles per tank. It's a little less than 1000 miles from our house to the hotel. So about 3.5 tanks each way, 7 total.

It takes about $35 to fill our tank. I'll round it to $40.

40*7=$280

And $400 is pushing it? LOL

I'll keep the $400 figure and when we have extra money, we can spend it in the park or something.

Now...I'm a member...

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So after checking into 2 rooms at a value resort, I figured I could add an extra day at the hotel and dining plan (1 table meal, 1 counter service meal, and 1 snack) PLUS 2 more days of park passes for.............$2445!

That's $150 LESS than what I had before, and more days for fun! I was really worrying about only getting 4 days of park passes, because there seemed to be more to do than I thought, and 1 day just wouldn't suffice for EPCOT and Magic Kingdom.

Also, I had...

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So we decided a few weeks ago that we're going to Disneyworld!

Wait let me rephrase that...Mark asked me to look up prices for DW. The first time he asked I didn't. He asked again so I started looking. Found out that in August they have a free dining promotion! Checked prices and told him what they were. He says "OK" which normally means sounds good, let your planning begin!

Here's a breakdown of the costs (at the time, more about that in a minute):
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so i havent been shopping as much, especially considering the sale at wags this week, i really wanted to go to at least 10 different stores a couple times this week. but sunday i went to the first one, came out...and my tire was flat. yay. came home, mark took it off and checked it, the rim was cracked. so he had to take it and have it fixed, and a new tire. cost for that...$450. i hate those rims, i swear. so got the tire fixed, now the stupid starter that we just replaced a lil over a year ago...

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