5 Ways To Save Money Once You Have Kids

Once you have kids, people sporadically approach you with buckets of cash. It’s a well-kept secret. Everyone knows how expensive the day to day necessities of raising a kid can be, so random do-gooders frequently help out with a spare Benjamin here and there. No, really.

However, if it’s been a little while since your last freebie purse-full of pence, I’d like to offer up my little list:

5 Ways To Save Money Once You Have Kids

(until that next blank check arrives)

(5) You’re either born into a large family or you’re not. This directly influences whether or not you’ll be on the Hand-me-down Train for the duration of your child’s adolescence. But haven’t we all heard how friends are the family you choose for yourself (and who are exempt from bringing the green bean casserole)? Why not organize a kiddo clothing swap to infuse your child’s current wardrobe, or even prep for a sibling’s future stylings? Save money, prevent fitting room meltdowns, maybe swap kids for a little while, too. Depends on how good the “friends” are.

(4) If you live in a big city (or even nearish to one!), there are always a plethora of free days at museums. For instance, Chicago’s Art Institute would cost a family with two adults 36 bucks (kids under 14 are free). However, from January 7^th to February 13^th, all Illinois residents get to experience the museum free of charge. Can’t beat free. Well, maybe you can. But only when you explain to your husband how thriftily you’re imbuing culture into his children and you get to watch him cry Man Tears of Happy. That beats almost anything.

(3) Join a grocery warehouse. Stop rolling your eyes. Yes, you do need that many paper towels and bottles of detergent. You do. And as for milk? It’s either that flat of milk crates or a nice little backyard heifer named Elsie. (And guess which one’s still cheaper? Especially if you live in a major metropolitan area where keeping large livestock is frowned upon and can rack up some serious fines. For example.)

(2) Airlines generally release their cheapest prices on Wednesdays- and then they’ll start to crawl back up towards Impossibly Expensive by the end of the week- so the former is when you should book your flights. (And take me with you, yeah? I’m still trying to work off the bail money from housing a cow.)

(1) Pretty much anything you need to make or do with your kid can be found at a Family Dollar . And let’s be honest, your smallish people need to make and/or do an improbable amount of stuff throughout the school year- Valentines. Christmas crafts. School supplies. Teacher gifts. Birthday presents. Party favors. (Aspirin for all involved parents.) And the stuff I've listed? About one eight hundredth of the Family Dollar’s great stuff in stock. For instance, there’s even an entire line of affordable baby care products (called Kidgets- how cute is that?) for those members of the family not yet old enough to warrant their own social calendar.

But they will. Oh, so soon they will.

And then you’ll need a bigger bottle of aspirin.

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