Fund Total: $806.99

Disney gift card (received for signing up for our Disney Visa, but decided to sell because you can only use two forms of payment to pay for your trip and we'd rather have the cash.  Total is after Ebay/Paypal fees)-$42.50

Unofficial Guide to Disneyland 2013 book (Ebay sale that didn't go as planned.  Oh well.)-$1.99

Gold mirror (not trash, purged from my mom's house)-$30

 Luau frames-$5     

Artificial tree-$15

Artificial plant-$10

Fund Total: $707

-$57 for Tithing

Drawer unit- $20

Heart cabinet- $40

Artificial tree- $15

Carseat cooler (not trash)- $20

Cozy coupe- $20

Foosball table- $35

Glass end table- $25

 Sterlite drawers- $15

Samsing TV (not working but we knew the problem)- $20

Life jacket  (not trash)- $10

Fund total: $487

I won't be posting all of the trash that we sold to get to this point, but starting now I'll be updating on a more regular basis.  Here are some of the highlights:

Pier 1 Chair-$70 (one of my best finds EVER!!  It was in perfect shape.)

Wood nightstand or side table-$15

IKEA wall organizer-$15

Artificial tree-$20

Overhead projector-$35

Leapfrog Move and Groove table-$20

Little Tikes Sand/water table-$25

Gearing Up Again

We were NOT planning on taking another Disney trip in 2013.  Not at all.  In fact, when the free dining offer came out for September, I looked at it, thought "hope they do it again next year" and moved on.  But then.......dang Disney sent me a pin code for free dining.  And I couldn't resist just pricing it out.

First mistake.

Then we found a FOOSBALL table in the trash.  Seriously.  Someone threw away a perfectly good foosball table.   That's some good trash money right there.

Zak and I spent weeks discussing the idea.  Going back and forth, weighing pros and cons.   This decision was not made lightly.  It's frankly a lot of work to sell trash.     People are flaky and don't show up, or say they want something and then fall off the face of the earth.   Trash takes up room and sometimes we think it would be nice to be able to park Zak's car in the garage.

In the end, we decided that we are up for the challenge: to attempt to pay for another trip with trash money.  Yesterday, we paid our deposit for our first trip to Disney World, making it a done deal.   Exciting times!

Our goal and what we've made will be on the sidebar just like last time if you want to follow along.  And the adventure begins!

So, now what?

We've been asked by several people if we are going to continue to collect trash and sell it now that our goal is met.  Our answer is YES!  Though I'm not going to be as worried about selling things as quickly, we have several other things we would like to pay for with trash money. 

1. For the remainder of February all of the trash money will go towards updating our 72 hour kits and bulking up our food storage.  I'm excited about this because it gives us some extra money to buy things for our storage that we haven't in the past. There's no budget for this.  We have a wishlist, but we'll just spend whatever we make. 

2. Trip to Disney World next year.  Not sure whether it will be spring or fall, that all depends on when the new Fantasyland is completely finished.   And when the free meal plan deal is offered.  The budget for this trip is $3000.  That includes plane tickets.

3.  This is a big one.  We want to save for a trip to London/Germany in 2014.  Zak's parents will be leaving to serve a mission for our church in a couple of weeks.  They are going to Frankfurt, Germany.  With that and our 10th anniversary, it seems the perfect time to travel.  We are still not sure if we plan to take the kids.  I'm afraid they would be bored out of their minds.  Museums/historic sites are just not all that interesting to a 5/7 year old.  Not certain what the budget would be for this, but at least $2200 just for the plane tickets (if just Zak and I go).

GOAL MET!! Fund Total: 2253

 -41 for tithing

The end total is $68 more than what we needed!!

Ladderball (don't worry mom, not the set you gave us for Christmas)-$10

New York picture (donated by my parents)-$15

Huffy bike (donated by a friend)-$40

IKEA dresser-$50

Walker-$10

Mirror with black frame (donated by my parents)-$40

Mirror with brown frame (donated by my parents)-$30

Armoire (donated by some friends-they were going to put it on the curb, but saved us a step by just calling us first)-$100

Fund Total: $2014

Still needed: $85.38  We are under $100!!!!

Crib (not a drop side, don't worry)-$25

IKEA dresser (was missing a drawer so Zak just pulled out the other drawer and added shelves that I covered in wrapping paper.  It was adorable and I was tempted to keep it) -$50

File cabinet-$15

 Free spirit bike (not trash-donated by a friend)-$30