The price of groceries, petrol, travel, entertainment, takeaway and family activities have skyrocketed, and with the school holidays just beginning it’s hard to stick to a budget with a house full of bored and hungry kids.
Here are four ways you can save a bit of money this school holidays.
- Free activities
There are a range of free activities available around Logan this school holidays, not just for kids but for adults as well.
Check out your local shopping centres, they will often have free kids Easter activities and entertainment on offer, like the Logan Hyperdome.
From April 3rd they are holding a School Holidays Carnival with free games, face painting and giveaways.
Logan Central Plaza also have a free holiday program with Easter Craft Workshops running throughout the break.
For more activities around Logan, Logan City Council’s website lists a range of free activities for kids and adults, including fitness classes, arts and craft workshops, fishing and more.
Surely you will find something the kids will like!
- Local Library
Your teen may turn their nose up at the thought of the library, but for younger kids it’s a great place to spend a couple of hours and it’s free.
You could spend some time reading together or do a puzzle (which are available in some libraries) or book in for one of their educational workshops.
Logan libraries hold story time and baby time sessions for young kids and readings by kid’s authors and performers, and for adults their marketing, art and writing workshops and more.
Check out their what’s on page online to see what they have coming up.
- Bottle hunt – this one will actually make you money!
This school holidays get your kids to collect bottles to cash in for their pocket money, that will get them motivated!
Go out to a couple local parks and play a game, see how many bottles they can find! They’re not only helping clean up the parks but making some money too!
There is container recycling drop off points in Bethania, Loganholme, Yarrabilba and Crestmead.
- Buying bulk
With all the kids at home you’ll be spending big on fruit, snacks and juices, so try to buy in bulk where possible.
For fruit check out your local fruit shops, they will often have boxes of bananas, apples and oranges for a set price, rather than a per kilo price.
Depending on the condition of the fruit, it could last up to two weeks without going bad, so it’s a great way to save and anything you don’t use can be frozen or turned into juice.
With snacks, look for the specials on bulk packets and family value packs rather than individual packets.
This way you can control the portion sizes and it will last much longer.
Same idea with juice, buy the two or three litre options and water it down, rather than individual poppers which a priced quite high.
