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    Default WOW!!!! I'm HALFWAY There!!!

    I am a "budget" person like most of us here on SR. I love a good bargain and getting stuff for free is even better. So, I look for the freebies wherever I can find them.

    DH and I are really bad about taking vacations. We do not charge anything for a vacation unless we have the money sitting in our special vacation bank account. As a result, we don't take vacations as much as we probably should. That being said, I look for anything that will allow me to earn "free" vacations and travel.

    We have a Disney Visa to help us save towards our Disney vacations. We also have the AMEX Blue Sky card which helps us earn money for travel-related expenses. And of course, there is SR which helps us cover everything else.

    I have a spreadsheet with my budget for April 2011 and our planned trip to HHI. We have a budget of $1700. I update it every day to reflect my earnings from SR, and monthly when our Disney Visa rewards and AMEX rewards credit. I was so excited today to see that I have hit $850 in rewards (FREE!)earnings! That has ALL been earned since April 1 of this year! That means in just over 5 months, I have earned 50% of next year's vacation in FREE MONEY. At this rate, I *might* be able to have the ENTIRE trip covered in rewards alone. How awesome would that be?

    I could not do it without my Sunshine Rewards.
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    Congratulations!! That is awesome

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    holy cow!
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    Awesome! Congrats! I do the same as you but I do it for the extras over and above the cost of the room, tickets and dining plan. So I figured out what I would need for dining tips, gas, MNSSHP tickets, BBB/PL for the kids, mousekeeping tips and such and realized I needed $1400 to pay for all of that. I have earned through SR and blogging (on my SR blog) and my Disney Visa Rewards all but 46.23 of that $1400. Free money!!! I really didn't think I could do it but the addition of the new surveys has made it easy.
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    Good job! Earning the money this way somehow makes what you spend it on that much sweeter!
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    Congrats!! That's awesome!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by kristenrice View Post
    I am a "budget" person like most of us here on SR. I love a good bargain and getting stuff for free is even better. So, I look for the freebies wherever I can find them.

    DH and I are really bad about taking vacations. We do not charge anything for a vacation unless we have the money sitting in our special vacation bank account. As a result, we don't take vacations as much as we probably should. That being said, I look for anything that will allow me to earn "free" vacations and travel.

    We have a Disney Visa to help us save towards our Disney vacations. We also have the AMEX Blue Sky card which helps us earn money for travel-related expenses. And of course, there is SR which helps us cover everything else.

    I have a spreadsheet with my budget for April 2011 and our planned trip to HHI. We have a budget of $1700. I update it every day to reflect my earnings from SR, and monthly when our Disney Visa rewards and AMEX rewards credit. I was so excited today to see that I have hit $850 in rewards (FREE!)earnings! That has ALL been earned since April 1 of this year! That means in just over 5 months, I have earned 50% of next year's vacation in FREE MONEY. At this rate, I *might* be able to have the ENTIRE trip covered in rewards alone. How awesome would that be?

    I could not do it without my Sunshine Rewards.
    Wow! Very impressive! Sunshine Rewards really is awesome.

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