Couponing to Disney

Disneyland, February 2009

I booked our hotels for our drives to and from Florida last night. We're staying in Alpharetta, GA on the way there, and we're staying in Nashville, TN on the way back.

I had originally budgeted $120 for the hotel stays. But last night there was a really great deal if you booked hotels by going through ShopatHome.com. It's a site that offers you cash back for shopping online. Intercontinental Hotels was offering 20% off, and then ShopatHome was offering 20% cash back! So we got a Staybridge Suites (a Holiday Inn hotel) in Alpharetta for $54.99 + tax, but after my cash back it only cost $43.99! And then hotels.com was also offering 20% off and ShopatHome was offering 8% cash back for purchases from hotels.com, so we got a Ramada Inn room for $54.13, but after cash back it will cost $49.80!

So I came in under budget by $26.21. So I've added that $26.21 to the fund and removed the $93.70 from the goal total since the hotels are already paid.

So the goal total now is:

$1226

Amount saved so far:

$777.74

Next month I'm still planning to put my $300-400 $200 (we need $200 to drive to Minnesota for Thanksgiving) away for the trip, and since Pick 'n Save is having a Double Double coupon day this Saturday (usually you can only double 5 coupons per order, on double double day you can double 10 coupons per order--with the way the Pick 'n Save coupon policy works, this is a huge deal), it's looking like I can get my monthly groceries for next month for less than $50. We're pretty well stocked, so we don't need a ton, but I should be able to get around $150 worth of groceries for that $50.