Disney Magic Mommy
  • Home
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • FREE Printables
  • FREE TOURING PLANS
  • Blog Hops
  • My Book

The 10 second $1 way to never lose a DIsney Gift Card!

5/1/2018

1 Comment

 
Picture


I'm going to start off by saying I  love my kids. Like so many other kids though, they (and okay, I do too!) suffer from Dory's short term rembery loss. In fact, I'm pretty sure she's my Spirit Animal. When we go to check e cheese, well...that bucket of coins, or the new card that holds the credits will get left somewhere... (hence my unfair rule of mom keeps them now!) or we often hear, as we stroll through Walmart, "Mom, where's my hat?!"  and then there's the frantic dash through the store trying to find where the hat, or the stuffed animal, or a drink or anything else got put no one can remember where. 

There are challenges when my boys want to be grown up enough to go and do things for themselves like have an entire year's savings on a gift card but have Dory tendances. (Sorry kids, that was all my genes!)

In thinking about our next Disney Trip, I wanted to be prepared, and proactive, so I came up with a plan. I WAS going to let them be in charge of their own spending money, via gift cards, but in a way that would be grown up for them, and reassuring for me! 

​Some thinking, a happenstance glance at the keys station at Home Depot and a 10 second solution was born to make both adults and kids happy! All for around $1!

There are two ways to make this, as a lanyard style, or as a bracelet style. The great part about this, is different colored bracelets, and different lanyards mean easily telling who has what giftcard. 

Supplies needed: 

Gift card
​Hole punch (and strong person to punch the hole!) 
coil keychains (I bought a dozen on Amazon for $3
lanyards (use what you have, or buy one. Lots of place have $1 ones) 
badge protectors ($1.50 at Walmart for 12)

​Assemble your products! 
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

Now this is important! You can't just punch willy nilly. Flip over the card, and DON'T punch the magnetic strip or any of the numbers. The upper left corner is usually a safe place.  If you want to do the lanyard style, you can skip the hole punching. 
​
Picture

Slide on the keychain! Or, slip the card into a badge holder, attach lanyard. 10 seconds, around $1 and the perfect way to give kid's independence, not mix up anyone's spending money, AND a worry free way to make sure the gift card won't get lost on the way to the register! 
Picture

Since there are so many different colors and styles the keychains and lanyards come in, it's possible for a large group of people to each have their own totally unique to them way to keep track of their money! I love the idea that I can toss these in the backpack, and take 5 seconds to pull out the blue one and know it belongs to one kid, instead of squinting at fading marker where I'd written a name to identify the owner, dropping it back in because it wasn't the one I wanted. Time saver, and sanity saver! 

What do you think? Would this work for you, or your family?  
1 Comment
Sharon Johnson
5/1/2018 08:43:28 am

Genius!

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Archives
    ​

    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    November 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017

    Categories

    All
    Disney Dining
    Disney DIY
    Disney Food
    Disney Holidays
    Disney In The Stores
    Disney News
    Disney Programs
    Food Allergies
    Giveaways
    Spotlight Sunday
    Tips And Tricks
    Touring Plans
    Vacation Planning
    Wordless Wednesday

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
Photos used under Creative Commons from oneselfsacrifice, TheBetterDay, coconut wireless, shixart1985, Tambako the Jaguar, BudCat14/Ross, FrankHPhillips, xiquinhosilva, tcwmatt (on Hiatus), SV1XV, chocolatedazzles, philip.mallis, Castles, Capes & Clones, spablab, coconut wireless, V31S70, Joe The Goat Farmer, www.ralfsteinberger.com, gittaz, Castles, Capes & Clones, kellyhogaboom, Castles, Capes & Clones, verchmarco, gothopotam, shixart1985, Amaury Laporte, Virtual EyeSee, marada, slgckgc, Sam Howzit, wuestenigel, verchmarco, Dick Thomas Johnson, www.traveljunction.com, dulasfloyd, heymarchetti, MattCC716, PrincessAshley, Jamiesrabbits, spablab, meshmar2, Chuckcars, alexa fades away, wuestenigel
  • Home
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • FREE Printables
  • FREE TOURING PLANS
  • Blog Hops
  • My Book