Getting a Lifetime of Disney+ for FREE

I’m back on my Robin Hood (Stealing ideas from the rich) and humbly giving you an out. Before I tell you how to get Disney+ streaming for a lifetime for FREE, here’s the background (cue flashback).

Disney Plus, Netflix, Amazon Prime or HBO Max - The best way to approach this is to make the service pay for itself. Invest in $DIS. It Pays.

Walt Disney Co. stock rose to a record in November.

The newly launched Disney+ attracted 10 million subscribers in one day. The first thing I watched was Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame (on your left).

I got to tell you as a Disney fan, the app is quasi-mediocre at best.

But the “House of Mouse” doesn’t care while it’s rolling in truckloads of money.

Disney DIS closed at $148.72, an all-time high for the stock using data going back to January 1972.

Why would someone pay more for cable anymore?

Disney+, with its trove of Disney classics, princess pictures, preteen treasures, and franchises such as Star Wars and Marvel movies; it’s a juggernaut.

Disney’s conservative goal: 60 million to 90 million Disney+ subscribers in five years

Disney+ Cost: $6.99 per month, or $69.99 per year ($5.83/month). This low price includes hours of entertainment spanning many different genres and interests, and best of all, it’s all ad-free.

For a family with kids, it’s a game-changer. This equals less time at the movie theater and more money in your pocket.

Table of Contents

How do you get it for Free? (Besides Verizon)

Investing. Disney is a company that is pretty much here to stay. Like Fox, NBC, and ABC; we are stuck with this one so. You have to start owning a piece of all that sweet Disney action. Here’s the game plan, if you choose to follow it or not:

1. Find $10,000 to Invest

So yeah that part is rough even for me.

Where there is a will, there is a budget. Start cutting back on unnecessary items and focus on value spending over throwing away money. It’s not for a long time but it’s a start. Use the tax refund as a boost. Pull family resources together if need be.

Use these FREE downloadable excel sheets to help you process through Money Management and Budgeting. They have instructions. Take a weekend and challenge yourself to figure them out. After that, comment if you need more help.

Wait, don’t run away yet…

If you don’t have the 10 stacks, dig deep for $5,000 or even $2,500 to start and keep investing throughout the year. It’s great to have a game plan. With a bit of luck, you might even be able to invest that amount in 1-2 years. Either way, you will be doing yourself and your children a favor.

Start small if you think you can’t start at all.

**2. Invest in Disney (Preferably with M1Finance.com or Fidelity Brokerage Firms)**

I heard FIDELITY was the GOAT for rookies so I’m sharing it. M1Finance is a bit more advanced, however, the perks are unreal (check out Factfinding.com’s opinion on it). Fundamentally, M1 actively rebalances your portfolio on auto. It’s a great way to gain on the market through Dollar-Cost-Averaging when the market goes sour.

“Rewards of Dollar-Cost Averaging. In the long run, this is a highly strategic way to invest. As you buy more shares when the cost is low, you reduce your average cost per share over time.” Use Dollar-Cost Averaging to Build Wealth Over Time by James McWhinney (March 2019)

3. Dividends or D.R.I.P.

With $10,000, you can buy around 66 shares of Disney at $9,900 + plus the brokerage fee. Since they are currently trading at around $140-$150 per share (November 2019). Concurrently, DIS (⇠ Disney Stock name) has been dishing out $0.88 per share semiannually. What’s a Dividend?

A dividend is a payment made by a corporation to its shareholders, usually as a distribution of profits. When a corporation earns a profit or surplus, the corporation is able to re-invest the profit in the business and pay a proportion of the profit as a dividend to shareholders. Simply, the company pays you for holding onto your money.

In this example for a value of $10,000, your 66 shares of Disney would pay you $58.08 semiannually or $116.16 per year. That’s a sweet total well over your annual subscription. You can take the money and run or you can let it D.R.I.P. in true swag fashion. What’s a DRIP?

A dividend reinvestment program (or plan) is an equity investment option where the investor does not receive quarterly dividends directly as cash; instead, the investor’s dividends are directly reinvested in the underlying equity.

In this example, at midyear, your 66 shares (s) will move up to 66.387s, and by year-end (if the share price was constant at $150), it would look like 66.77s. Basically, your dividends would be reinvested for more shares, the more shares you have the more money you make (see DRIP calculator example below from Nov. 2014 to today with $10,000):

4. Sit back and Enjoy your Annual Discount

A solid goal in life is to be part of the action versus standing idle. You owe it to yourself to start to think outside the box and start to make your viewership and your subscriptions work just as hard for you. 2019 is the first year when my savings/investment growth peaked at $21,000+ which was my take-home salary (after tax) in 2012. The Compounding Effect does work.

An investment of $10,000 today can pay for a lifetime worth of Disney+ subscription, all while the stocks continue to climb. Money makes money.

Bonus:

If you think you are choosing between Disney+ and HULU; for the record, Disney owns HULU and ESPN, and a ton of other things… I always swore they own a piece of ABC and Mcdonald’s too but that might be my paranoia… or is it (squints eyes).

That’s how you rig a game. Make them think that they had an option, to begin with.