Free Entertainment

Are you trying to find activities for your family to do over the summer without spending much money?

We’ve been going to the library. Our library has a summer reading program where the kids can read and earn prizes. They’ve received certificates to a free meal at Sizzler, Mimi’s Cafe and Hometown Buffet. This program also offers contests for the kids.

Tuesday we went to the library to see an entertainer called Rusty Happenings. He’s a graduate from a performing arts school in New Zealand. As the kids came in, the performer was dressed up in a pirate outfit juggling some big cones while heckling the crowd in a fun way. The kids laughed and came out talking on and on about him. (While the kids were being entertained, I was in the library’s magazine section. They had all the current issues of every mag you could think of!)

I thought it was going to be some low budget entertainment but it really wasn’t. In fact, I would consider hiring him to entertain at a party. And it sure beats being at home in the heat. Free, fun entertainment, who could deny that?

Today there is a Tae Kwon do demonstration. My kids are interested in going. We’ll be there, and we’ll skip another day at home in the heat. (Maybe they’ll have a new issue of People, I love reading about the people that I think I know but don’t.)

I’ve been checking out books from our library too. Our library is great, they have a lot of the current books that are on the shelves at Borders, Barnes and Noble and Target.

(My secret: When I’m at the bookstores, I have a pen and paper writing down the titles & authors so I can check to see if they’re at the library)

Not only am I saving money not buying those books that I yearn for, I’m giving my kids some entertainment that doesn’t hit my pocketbook! (WIN-WIN!)