Kids Bowl for Free

http://www.kidsbowlfree.com/

Is this legit? Yep. Sign the kids up and take them bowling. I paid $20 for the family pass. We have to pay for our shoes and that's it. So far it has cost me $38 for the bowling. I have only gone once. My one friend bought her kids' shoes and she bowls every week. I don't plan to bowl enough to make it cost effective.

Free National Park Week

A friend tipped me off to this one! We live near so many parks, which makes us truly blessed. If you are looking for something fun and free to do with your friends and family, this is something for you.

Looking for something fun, free, and fantastic to do with family and friends?
National Park Week is April 21-29, which means ALL 397 of your national parks offer free admission, all week long! Visit this site: http://www.nps.gov/findapark/feefreeparks.htm for more information on a park near you! You can search by state here: http://www.nps.gov/findapark/feefreeparksbystate.htm.

Six flags offer free tickets for educators

If you homeschool or are an educator, you can get your kids excited about reading by joining the Read to Succeed program offered by Six Flags and Discovery Education. If you are a parent of a school age child, ask your child's teacher to participate! It's awesome all the resources out there for educators!

http://readtosucceed.discoveryeducation.com/

Frugality & debt Free: Netflix

We cancelled cable about 3 years ago as a way to save $40 a month. We go off and on with Netflix but they have upped their fees from $10 for dvds and movie streaming to $8 for each service. If we kept Netflix (which is still a better deal than cable) the way we like it, then we would pay an extra $6 a month. In calculating, that's $72 a year. Not a price I'm willing to pay when we barely use the dvds. Spontaneously, we were in a grocery store and I whipped out my data phone to see if we could get a promo code (I had read about them) from a website. We found insideredbox.com which has free promo codes you can use to get a redbox dvd. The catch? Each promo code can only be used once per credit card. No problem. We are satisfied with free movies and are patient.

In the long run, we will keep the streaming and end up saving $24/year, plus now get the dvd movies we want to see. I personally am challenging myself to spend less and less money on things, but do more and more.

Soccer Deal of the month: As of yesterday, Dicks Sporting Goods , has a deal with umbro soccer goods. If you buy a soccer ball, cleats and shin guards you pay $34.95. But, you also receive $15 toward your next purchase, making your total to $20. The cleats alone cost $19.99 so you basically are buying shoes and getting the ball and shin guards for free!