Here's five ways to get you and the kids out of the house for not very many pennies at all.
1. Take a picnic. Wherever you go, whatever you do, take food with you. I can't pay £2 for a sandwich and drinks really affect the savings. Take far too many drinks and enough food to keep the "can I haves?" at bay.
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2. Visit a Museum. The majority are free. Google your county followed by the word museum and find one you may not have known about. Fleetwood Museum was our surprise last Easter.
3. Visit a Graveyard. What?!! Are you crazy!? What kind of day out is that? Well, if you've an interest in family history or maybe a section in your local graveyard (we have a polish section and a WW2 section) you can really get stuck into discussions about how the world was. ok, it's not an every holiday day out, but it is an experience!
4. Park Crawl. Like a pub crawl but parks instead. Great if you've got fuel in the car and your town has several parks. We visited one a week in the summer hols last year and rated them on equipment and friendliness of locals.
5. Couponing!! I know Walkers are currently giving half price vouchers to Sea Life Centres and if you get on the money saving forums, any good deals will be listed. There's always Tesco vouchers too. You can even buy them for a song on ebay! Search Tickets and see what comes up.
6. RNLI - if you live on the coast, have a mosey round the lifeboat station. Check they are open first though, most are and all have an open day at some point in the year.
7. Scavenger Hunt. You know I love them. Do a nature themed sheet and do the hunt in the park before you settle down for your picnic. Take a bat and ball and go all old school in the afternoon with ball games!
So, hopefully that'll give you some ideas to get out. And if you had budgetted for the day out and do a cheaper, or free alternative, bank the money in your savings fund!
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