I know there are a lot of cyber Monday deals out there, but I thought this was special – save up to 50% on toys for foster children on Amazon today via this link. It’s basically a partnership with CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children), which is a non-profit that uses community volunteering to help…
September 29th is National Coffee Day and several major chains are celebrating with free or reduced coffee. Here are the deals: Dunkin Donuts: get a medium coffee for $0.66, because they are 66 years old. I forgot and tried to order a small this morning and the kind counter person told me that a medium…
Get free admission to hundreds of museums around the country thanks to Smithsonian Magazine’s Museum Day Live! – this is sponsored by the magazine every year and lets you sign up for free tickets at a participating museum. The key is that you have to register online to get the free tickets, you can’t just…
A few months ago I wrote a post about about Buzzfeed’s hack to turn an IKEA side table into a succulent garden. I’ve finally gotten around to doing the project, so here’s my review and some photos of the IKEA table garden as done by a moderately crafty parent as opposed to a team with…
National Ice Cream Day is this Sunday, July 17. In previous years we’ve been awash in offers of free ice cream, but this year things seem to have pulled back quite a bit. Still, here are the deals I could find specific to National Ice Cream Day: Uber is having an #UberIceCream event this afternoon,…
We decided to try to go boating on the spur-of-the-moment this weekend, and found a fantastic spot so I of course have to share. We went to the Middlesex Fells, where we’ve been plenty of times to go hiking, but haven’t explored the Stoneham side at Spot Pond much so didn’t know that you could rent…
Father’s Day is coming up, so let’s talk gift ideas. There are the traditional ideas like the mug-with-child’s handprints on it but you can only do that so often, so here are my ideas for some Father’s Day presents that are sure to be appreciated (and discount codes on them if I could find them)!…
We’ve had some long car trips recently and have had to come up with ways to keep the kids engaged and occupied. Here are some easy do-it-yourself car games that we’ve used recently that have been successful! What to bring: So a great shortcut is to have an awesome sister-in-law (sorry, mine is taken), who sends your…
A few weeks ago I wrote about how my daughter needed to select 100 of a common object and make something to wear using the 100 pieces to celebrate the 100th day of school. In my last blog post on the subject, she had selected straws (yes, drinking straws) and decided that she wanted to…
In the fall I posted about how we were trying out the Green Kid Crafts monthly STEAM boxes and promised to report back. Not only am I reporting back, but they are running a promo to try Green Kid Crafts for free – while supplies last you can get a free full-sized Green Kid Crafts Discovery Box,…
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