Comments on: You Can Do A Lot With That $40

By: Brandi

Brandi — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:04:09 +0000

I have three children and we do not spend a lot of money on entertainment. We find free things to do and there are a lot of free things to do with your kids. An amusement park could cost a fortune with three children paying $1.00 per ride!

By: FrugalBabe

FrugalBabe — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:03:54 +0000

Evie – we did the same thing. Whenever we were on vacation, my mom would fill a cooler with lunch stuff, and we’d pull over at rest areas to eat sandwiches. We never knew any other option, and the whole family enjoyed our traveling picnics.

GC – I had never been to this local amusement park, but it’s definitely somewhere we’ll take our son when he’s older. No lines, no paying for parking (the big park we went to last week charged $10 per car!), no crazy commercialism – just good fun. Much better

By: GC

GC — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:19:02 +0000

the local amusement park around here even has a pony ride
it’s just so much more interesting than all that heavily branded stuff at the gargantuan parks–which are miles away–you even have to pay toll to get there

By: Evie

Evie — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:08:57 +0000

Your sil must have a large purse to pull a loaf of bread out of it!

When I was a teenager our family and the family next door used to go to Six Flags once a year. When we parked we’d try to be near a tree. When we got hungry for lunch we’d leave the park (getting our hands stamped so we could come back in) and go to the car where there was a cooler with sandwiches, chips and drinks. We’d sit under the tree and have lunch together. It never occured to us to eat in the park or buy any of that food, our parents never provided it as an option so we never missed it.