Keep Your Kids Busy For Less: Pretend it’s Summer and Hit the Tub

If your kids are longing for summer fun, why not grab some of the summer items- the pails, shovels, and goggles and have a swim party in your tub? Since you haven’t used these items in months, they will seem like new toys to the kids.  For those of you who have kids who hate [...]

Tipster Tuesday: Fool the Kids on April Fool’s

We’ve found some really fun ways to fool the kids on April 1 and you can still pull them off in time for tomorrow: 1) Martha Stewart’s shrunken breakfast. You can get the quail’s eggs at Super Chicken of Hoboken at 4th and Harrison. 2) How about cake for dinner… Meatloaf cake! I’m thinking of [...]

Tipster Tuesday: Cleaning the Bathroom

One thing that some of you may be doing in this recession is cutting back on your cleaning service.   It’s not mentioned in this article on CNN.com, Thrift-conscious say goodbye to cars, cell phones, other luxuries but, what used to be seen as an essential, might now be seen as a luxury.  If you are deciding to [...]

Keep Your Kids Busy For Less: Indoor Hopscotch on the Carpet

It’s not quite park weather yet and my kids miss playing outside.  Recently, during a playdate, my kids found some chalk and decided they wanted to go outside and play Hopscotch.  We decided to improvise and made a Hopscotch board on my carpeted floor with painters tape. It kept the kids happy and occupied for hours- well, [...]

Keep Your Kids Busy For Less- Target Dollar Bins

Target has a section where you can get cute little things for approx $1.00 (sometimes a litle more) I call it the dollar bin section. It is generally in the front of the store. I always like to check out these bins, because you never know what you will find and you can sometimes get [...]