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Friday, August 8, 2008

Saving money!

I cannot believe how much everything is costing now adays. It seems like everything is going up except our paychecks. Well much like everyone else we are trying to come up with ways to save money. So I did some searches on the web to see different ways familys can save money. So I have come up with a few good ideas:
-do all my errand running on one day a week to help save on gas.
-do more free activities with the kids such as PAT events, playdates,
swimming in our neighborhood pool, etc.
-do more bulk shopping for items I use a lot.
-get rid of movie channels on our cable TV
-use less minutes on my cell phone.
I have also thought of a few ideas on my own. To save money on water we have decided to do family baths. Now we put all three of the kids in the tub together. See picture below:

Furniture can also be very expensive, especially childrens. Instead of buying new furniture for all the kids when decided they can all share the same furniture. Well Joey obviously can't sleep on a regular size bed yet for fears of him falling off it so we wanted to check and see if we could fit all the kids in the crib with him. Yep, perfect fit (see picture below). So now we have a few years before we have to upgrade their furniture!



Well now we have saved a lot of money, we just have to figure out what to do with it all!

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