Frugal living tasks you can do in the dance school lobby
I think every little girl in Monroe goes to dance school at some point.
Whether she wants to to be the next Miss America (Monroe’s Miss America 1988 Kaye Lani Rae Rafko danced as her talent) or the next music video hiphop dance star, local girls, and the occasional local boy, do spend a lot of after-school time in the dance studios.
How can you spend that half hour, hour or whatever time you have to wait for your kids while they are in class or rehearsal as productive frugal living and planning time? Here are ten ideas:
- Read frugal living blogs and forums on your laptop computer. If your dance school doesn’t have wireless Internet, you can hang out at the nearest coffee shop, library or fast food place that does have wireless.
- If there is no Internet service available nearby, bring a book on personal finance that you checked out from the library.
- Clip and sort your grocery coupons. You could trade coupons with other moms while you are in the lobby.
- Do grocery shopping while the girl is in class. There will be no whining from the kid about “I want that!” on the grocery shelf when she didn’t see what you refused to buy.
- Ask the other moms what are some of the best bargains they’ve seen this week in the department, discount and thrift stores. Follow up on their tips when you plan your errands.
- Network with other moms for hand-me-down and second-hand rehearsal outfits and dance shoes that might fit your kids. Return the favor and pass down your child’s too-small stuff.
- Arrange carpools with other families who live some distance away from the dance school.
- Plan a Mom2Mom sale as a fundraiser for your dance school or competition team. The way those multi-family sales usually work in southeast Michigan is each participating family rents a table, and the table fees go to the designated charity, school or church group. The families keep the money from whatever they sell at their tables.
- Contribute or pick up your favorite homemaking or mom magazines from the reading shelves.
- Knit, crochet or needlepoint a Christmas or birthday gift for someone while you are sitting in the lobby.
Posted: October 20th, 2008 under Frugal living, Top 10 Lists.
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Time: October 28, 2008, 9:04 am
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Comment from Polly Poorhouse
Time: October 28, 2008, 11:41 am
Great way to maximize time and money. Our dance school has a bin where people put overgrown shoes for sale. The shoes go in a ziplock back with the contact information of the owner and a price. People who just want to donate used shoes just put them in by themselves.
With a daughter taking tap, ballet & jazz, this little practice has saved me hundreds of dollars over the years.
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