Photography - Let your child use a disposable camera or a digital camera and witness their creativity.

Picnic - Make some sandwiches and eat them outside.

Cooking - Find age-appropriate recipes and let your child help in kitchen.

Tag - How many versions of tag do you remember from your childhood? Teach oldies to your children (freeze tag, TV tag, etc.)

Write a Story - Younger children can write wiggle-worm sentences (much scribbling and pictures). Encourage older children to write chapter books -- your child may surprise you.

Charades - Toddlers can act out and guess their favorite animals (usually with many sound effects). Older children will enjoy acting out movie titles.

Flashlight - Turn off lights & make shadow puppets. Or get two flashlights and chase light beams.

Wildlife - Feed ducks, squirrels, birds, turtles or fish near you.

Abundance - Every day, have your children tell you what they are thankful for.

Dress Up - Give your children your clothes and watch them imitate you.

Treats - Make cookies and decorate them.

Dance - Turn up music and Dance!

Play Games - Teach your child all your favorite board games.

Journal - Present a notebook or diary to your child and encourage them to express their feelings with pictures and words.

Tea Party - Grab stuffed animals and treat them to a delicious cup of imaginary tea.

Keep in Touch - Write a letter to Grandparents, Aunts or Uncles. Teach importance of

family.

I Spy - Come up with age-appropriate clues and let you child guess what you are

thinking.

Be sure to print out this list and keep it handy for next time your children say

"MOMMMMMM -- we're bored!"

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On downside, you may have to pay for shipping for product which in most cases would compare less to total of sales tax. And, by way, due to immense competition among internet-sellers, you may end up making a bargain by not paying taxes and not paying for shipping either. Free shipping – as it is called, is common on many internet sites these days. For an item priced at $1000 you would save as much as $90 as sales tax savings – all you do is pick right seller.

Early Shopping: Planning on shopping near beginning of season will give you ample time to compare prices on product at various sellers. During this process, you will form a ballpark estimate of item.

Let me remind you that variation of price can be any where from few dollars to few hundreds of dollars depending on original price of product, which makes it necessary for you to do this homework as to know kind-of best price before you finalize on buying product.

In addition, sellers usually hike prices as holiday season approaches so that they can display higher discount-numbers on their sale-advertisements. The higher discounts not only attract more customers but also compensate and compete prices for similar items at other stores. The fact is, even when you see greater discounts, you would not realize tangible savings around holiday season unless you end up getting an early bird discount. I am somewhat reluctant to say this is true all times, but is case in several occasions.

Team Shopping: Like in a workplace, collaborative shopping produces amazing results. You are not mandated to go to a shopping mall as a team, but exchanging ideas and information as a team would be advantageous.

Talk to your friends about their experience buying a similar item in past. Gather information about quality of product, prices at different stores, seller reputation, etc that play a vital role on your buying-decision. Moreover, ask your friends and relatives if they could share any discount coupons. If preferred customer, they would share coupons with you, which in turn would give you opportunity to cut down on final price. Beware that some sellers distribute non-transferable coupons in which cases you need to be creative to maximize your savings.

So finally: These ideas only scratch surface of iceberg. You can get innovative and creative to find best deals on market. Websites like www.techbargains.com, www.ecoupons.com, etc are some of few sites that gather information about greatest deals of day. Internet has many such great money-saving ideas.

Armed with this information, I am sure you would be able to craft a good plan which would save you many dollars each shopping trip. If you are meticulous enough, you would save at least $200 for every $1000 dollars spent. I guarantee it. If you deny my proposition or have a different opinion write to me and I will help you see potential of putting above facts to work.