I’ll keep our crummy oven, thanks.

Disney now has a new savings programed aimed at helping families save for their Disney vacations.  You can check out all the details here:  https://disneyvacationaccount.disney.go.com/  Personally I think it’s not a bad option, especially for families where multiple individuals would be contributing towards the costs.  I know we couldn’t have afforded our January trip if I hadn’t created a special savings account at our bank.

I began saving pretty much as soon as we got home from our first trip to WDW.  Ten percent off the top of everything I made went straight into that savings account.  And any time I could, I’d put extra in.  Sometimes it was another five bucks, sometimes it was five hundred (gotta love large pay days).  More often than not it was a tiny bit at a time.  But a years worth of saving everything I could has meant we’re heading to WDW in three weeks.

Yeah, there were things we chose to do without.  Things we could have used.  I’d love a new oven or dishwasher…  and we haven’t decorated yet even though we’ve now been living in this house for a little over a year.  LOL  But we all make choices, we all have priorities.  And honestly?  When Lily-Ann is grown?  She won’t remember that our oven only had a top burner (which meant the bottom half of our pizzas weren’t as crisp as they should have been), but she will remember the amazing times we had as a family, laughing, and enjoying every moment.  And that’s worth keeping our crummy oven a little longer.  😉