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Frugal Family is a weekly Wednesday column dedicated to giving you five local deals.
We're all watching our family budgets these days. Whether shopping with coupons or looking for two-for-one deals, we're taking advantage of all sorts of offers and savings that help us stretch our dollars. This week, Frugal Family scoured our local sources to come up with great deals for your family including Tsunami roll, Blizzards, Lemonade Mouth, Aeropostale and Crayola. Remember to check with the merchant for additional conditions: 1. MINI BLIZZARD SPECIAL Deal: Although it is in Ashland, it is worth mentioning. Dairy Queen is selling mini Blizzards for $1.99 Good Through: April 30 2. …
We're all watching our family budgets these days. Whether shopping with coupons or looking for two-for-one deals, we're taking advantage of all sorts of offers and savings that help us stretch our dollars. This week, Frugal Family scoured our local sources to come up with great deals for your family including Tsunami roll, kites, Peeps, Easter baskets and more. Remember to check with the merchant for additional conditions: 1. GREAT FOOD & JAPANESE RED CROSS Deal:  Samba & Sushi House created a new sushi roll called the Tsunami Roll, of which 100% of sales will go to the Japanese Red Cross. …
We're all watching our family budgets these days. Whether shopping with coupons or looking for two-for-one deals, we're taking advantage of all sorts of offers and savings that help us stretch our dollars. This week, Frugal Family scoured our local sources to come up with great deals for your family including Wimpy Kid books, Revlon nail polish, AmazonKindle, storage bins and more. Remember to check with the merchant for additional conditions: 1. WIMPY KID FAN? Deal:  Target  is selling hardcover copies of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series for just $9. Good through: Saturday, April 9  2. …
We're all watching our family budgets these days. Whether shopping with coupons or looking for two-for-one deals, we're taking advantage of all sorts of offers and savings that help us stretch our dollars. This week, Frugal Family scoured our local sources to come up with great deals for your family including groceries, cleaners, new movies and more. Remember to check with the merchant for additional conditions: 1. EXPANDED TARGET Deal:  Target  recently remodeled to expand its grocery section of the store. This week Target's Market Pantry brand has macaroni (16 oz) and pasta sauce (26 oz) at…
We're all watching our family budgets these days. Whether shopping with coupons or looking for two-for-one deals, we're taking advantage of all sorts of offers and savings that help us stretch our dollars. This week, Frugal Family scoured our local sources to come up with great deals for your family including clothing at The Loft, crafts, music and more. Remember to check with the merchant for additional conditions: 1. SPRING WARDROBE Deal:  The Loft online has 50% off right now. No coupon needed for its "love a good sale campaign." The deal is also available in stores, including the one at …
We're all watching our family budgets these days. Whether shopping with coupons or looking for two-for-one deals, we're taking advantage of all sorts of offers and savings that help us stretch our dollars. This week, Frugal Family scoured our local sources to come up with great deals for your family including an Italian buffet, spring cleaning and spring fashions. Remember to check with the merchant for additional conditions: 1. GO ITALIAN ON ST. PATRICK DAY Deal: La Cantina Italiana Ristorante offers an all-you-can-eat buffet on Thursdays for lunch Good through: restaurant's discretion   2. …
We're all watching our family budgets these days, especially with gas prices hovering at $3.50 a gallon.  Whether shopping with coupons or looking for two-for-one deals, we're taking advantage of all sorts of offers and savings that help us stretch our dollars. This week, Frugal Family scoured our local sources to come up with great deals on glasses, dresses, lunch and dinner, and fresh fish for Ash Wednesday. Remember to check with the merchant for additional conditions:   1. Restaurant Week - Papa Razzi Deal: Restaurant Week is back for Winter 2011 with a 2-course lunch for $15.11; 3-course…
We're all watching our family budgets these days. Whether shopping with coupons or looking for two-for-one deals, we're taking advantage of all sorts of offers and savings that help us stretch our dollars. This week, Frugal Family scoured our local sources to come up with great deals for your family. Remember to check with the merchant for additional conditions: 1. BUY 60 PHOTOS GET 20 FREE Deal: CVS is offering this deal on 4 by 6 prints with the code 60get20. Good through: March 3   2. SPRING INTO HEALTHY SNACKS Deal: Stop & Shop has red seedless grapes on sale for 99 cents a pound. Wash …
We're all watching our family budgets these days. Whether shopping with coupons or looking for two-for-one deals, we're taking advantage of all sorts of offers and savings that help us stretch our dollars. This week, Frugal Family scoured our local sources to come up with great deals that will help your sanity during this week's school vacation week. Remember to check with the merchant for additional conditions: 1. JOURNAL THE WEEK AWAY Deal: Staples has $1 deals this week including a 12-pack of Ticonderoga #2 pencils, 100-sheet composite notebooks, stenobooks, 120-packs of filler paper  and …
We're all watching our family budgets these days. Whether shopping with coupons or looking for two-for-one deals, we're taking advantage of all sorts of offers and savings that help us stretch our dollars. This week, Frugal Family scoured our local sources to come up with great deals that will help your sanity during next week's school vacation week. Remember to check with the merchant for additional conditions: 1. MOVIE NIGHT Deal: Besy Buy in Shoppers World has Toy Story 3 and Shrek: The Final Chapter for $8.99 and $11.99 Great movie night options for school vacation week. One movie and …
We're all watching our family budgets these days. Whether shopping with coupons or looking for two-for-one deals, we're taking advantage of all sorts of offers and savings that help us stretch our dollars. This week, Frugal Family scoured our local sources to come up with great deals on video games, diapers, soup, and heart-shaped baking pans. Remember to check with the merchant for additional conditions: 1. Buy 1 Video Game, get 1 at 40% off at Toysrus Deal: wii and ds games included Good through: Saturday, Feb. 12 2. BabiesRus $10 gift card with diaper purchase Deal: Buy any 2 pampers value…
We're all watching our family budgets these days. Whether shopping with coupons or looking for two-for-one deals, we're taking advantage of all sorts of offers and savings that help us stretch our dollars. This column will be dedicated to giving you five great local deals each week that will help your family’s bottom line, and since we do the scouting for you, you can save time as well as money. You are a big part of this column. Let us hear about the deals you've seen. Just add them to our comment box.Then come back each week and see what we've uncovered together. This week, Frugal Family …

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