18 More Free or Inexpensive Ways to Go Out and Gave a Good Time

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Recently I gave you quite a number of great ideas that were either free or very cheap to have a great time with family and friends. Here are more ideas to use on those nights when no one can come up with anything other than dinner and a movie but no one has the money to pay for it!

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  1. Many cities have great art galleries you can visit at no cost. Discuss the art and have fun enjoying it. If there is something you think is just too funny, wait until your outside before you burst into laughter or you might be kicked out.
  2. Check out your local historical sights. Many are free.
  3. Go to the park and swing on the swing set. Take turns pushing each other.
  4. If it's snowing, why not build a snowman?
  5. Canoeing can be lots of fun and many state parks that have lakes rent the canoes, boats and paddleboats for very little money. Rent a boat for the day, get some exercise and make sure to pack a picnic lunch. Bring a kite to the park and fly kites and have a picnic.
  6. Get involved in a fundraiser together.
  7. Have a chili cook-off with your neighbors.
  8. Have a snowball fight or in warmer weather a water fight.
  9. Find a beautiful place to hike and go for a hike.
  10. Learn about the stars and constellations together.
  11. Print some lessons for an instrument you have laying around your house and learn to play it together. Alternatively, if there is an instrument you have wanted to learn, check out your local garage sales and get a bargain then print lessons on the internet and learn it together.
  12. Watch the Food Network or other cooking channels and learn to cook something together.
  13. Set up a tent in your backyard and camp out. Or if it's cold, build a tent in your living room, pop some popcorn, turn off the lights and pretend that you are camping. If you have a fireplace, build a "camp fire" and roast hot dogs and s'mores over it.
  14. Painting together can be a lot of fun. Why not paint a picture together?
  15. Gardening is another fun activity and planting a garden (and planning it together) can be a great bonding experience.
  16. Share some memories by putting all those pictures you've been waiting until you had some spare time into a photo album. Write memorable phrases below them and talk about the wonderful time you had. It will the next best thing to being there.
  17. Make plans for your dream house. Map it out and look through magazines to figure out what you would like to have in yours.
  18. Sit under the stars with a nice cold drink and a cozy blanket.

Jaci Rae is known as The Queen of More Green. For more advice and money saving tips, please go too: The Queen of Green or Shop For A Day where you will also find free gifts from Procter and Gamble.



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    The Early Years, Learning The Value of Money

    Jaci Rae’s life has been anything but ordinary. But it takes more than ordinary life to make an extraordinary human being and that’s just what Jaci Rae is. Her life began impoverished and through steely determination and an iron will, she overcame the odds.

    Jaci has been to the depths of financially disparity and has risen from the trenches. The story of Jaci Rae’s early years and how she learned the value of money is captivating. Moreover, even though her story is different today, she still uses these same ways to save money and “get the most bang” for her “buck.”

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    “Because my path was so hard, I was inspired to learn how to save money and get something for nothing, but my struggle with money has been much like anyone else’s. People either have it or they don’t. You are either in the ‘have’s’ or the ‘have not’s.’ Most often, I didn’t have the money and was in the ‘have not’ category.

    Like many, I worked hard, but something always ate away at the money and I quickly learned how to be thrifty, save money and get the most bang for my buck. I have been there, done that and figured a way out of a financial crises on more than one occasion.

    With the desperation of today’s economy, many people are struggling just to meet basic needs. Unfortunately, for the first time in American history, we are living off accumulated debt and most people aren’t worth even close to what they owe.

    With wages not commiserative with the cost of living and jobs being taken away right and left after they are shipped overseas, the crunch is on just to survive. Whether you have a lot of money or none at all, I want to show you how you can get the most bang for your buck. You can begin to see that light at the end of the financial doomsday tunnel and that there really is a way out of total financial devastation.

    Hope is a terrible thing to lose and harder yet to get back, but I really want to offer you hope with a new look into the way you can live. Yes, life is expensive, but it doesn’t have to be as expensive as you are used too! There are many items that can be free or purchased for a small fraction of what you are used to paying. I am going to show you how I turned nothing into something and made money along the way. You can live more and spend less!” Jaci Rae


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