341 days to go: Still on BUDGETING...

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341 days to go: Ahh so many days left of waiting...LOL! Well this week we are on the subject of BUDGETING so tonight I will talk about shopping! We all know that shopping at the Parks of Disney can get pretty expensive! Especially if you are a shop-a-holic! Some don't even know they are shop-a-holics until they get to Disney World lol! There are so many shops in the Parks and also outside of the Parks that it's very hard to NOT want to stop and shop! Last year when we went we ended up stopping at probably every gift shop in the Orlando/Kissimmee area and spent a pretty good amount of money! This next year when we go we are taking a different approach! We think a good idea this time would be to buy Disney themed gifts elsewhere and save them up for when we get there and then disperse them from there! Here is the idea...We search for all things "Disney" on Ebay, Craigslist, department stores, etc while we're still in our home area and buy things that are cheap here but would otherwise probably cost double the price in Florida! Then we save them all up and hide them from the kids of course! We will wrap them up and take them along with us on our trip! Once we get there we will give the kids each a gift every day that we are there! They will love it and this will save us a ton of money because since they would have already gotten a gift for the day then we can go cheap while at the Parks and save money that way! Ebay is a great place to shop for Disney items! We got Mickey Shaped balloons like the ones sold at the Parks for a whopping $4/4 from Ebay! They are around $11 each at the Parks so we already saved a ton of money there! We pretty much paid $1 each so that saved $10 for each balloon and we have 3 kids so thats a quick $30 savings! We will probably buy a cheap helium tank and fill them up ourselves! These are probably the biggest shopping tips I can give! I hope you enjoyed and if you have any questions or comments please feel free to leave them below!!