{"id":495,"date":"2007-11-14T07:39:52","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T16:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=495"},"modified":"2007-11-14T08:43:58","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T17:43:58","slug":"parents-save-a-buck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2007\/parents-save-a-buck\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents, Save a Buck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or two. Or more. (Or none?)<\/p>\n

Trent over at The Simple Dollar offers up Eight Tips From An Ultra-Frugal Parent<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n
Get old towels at yard sales and cut them up. <\/p>\n

Make simple meals with as basic ingredients as you can, then spice from there.<\/p>\n

Focus on open-ended, imagination-based toys.<\/p>\n

Buy end-rolls of newspaper and be creative.<\/p>\n

Cut their hair at home.<\/p>\n

Involve the children in every possible activity that you do.<\/p>\n

Find activities that free up one parent.<\/p>\n

Find another couple with children and swap babysitting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

What would you add to that?<\/p>\n


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Or two. Or more. (Or none?) Trent over at The Simple Dollar offers up Eight Tips From An Ultra-Frugal Parent Get old towels at yard sales and cut them up. Make simple meals with as basic ingredients as you can, then spice from there. Focus on open-ended, imagination-based toys. Buy end-rolls of newspaper and be … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons-for-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-7Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}