Creative Entertainment

There are many ways to reduce your entertainment expenses:

• You can often get entertainment for free at libraries and bookstores.  Libraries let you check out videos as well as books, and bookstores often have reading areas where you can read books and magazines.  Whether you actually buy anything is totally up to you.
• Making more friends is great for conversational entertainment, playing games and other free & fun activities.  You can also share entertainment products, experiences and expenses with your friends.  For example, you can rent a video and split the cost with your friends.
• Expressing your own creativity is a great way to have fun.  You could take up painting, writing, crafts or any number of other outlets for your natural creativity.
• You can always download interesting software for games, music, photography and more from the ZDNet Software Library.

The best site I know of for finding tips for cheaper entertainment is The Dollar Stretcher.  Every week, tips pour in to this excellent site from its audience of about 100,000 readers.  You'll find about 100 articles on the subject of cheaper entertainment.  Here are some good pages on this site to check out:

	Creative Entertainment   Time to complete:   Varies Money you'll spend:   $0 What you'll get:   Varies Creative entertainment ideas:  The Family Activities section includes these interesting articles: Educational Activities for Kids and Families gives some good ideas for "edutainment" activities. Cheap Dates and Family Activities has a very long list of ideas. Summer Camp at Home shows how you can make every summer a fun, carefree and inexpensive experience for you and your kids. Parties And Entertaining is all about having fun at all kinds of social gatherings, while keeping your costs down. Holiday Entertainment has tips for Christmas, the 4th of July and everything in between. Sponsored Links Further Reading: The Dollar Stretcher has a large number of articles about all sorts of money-related topics, many of them contributed by the over 100,000 readers of its newsletter. Cheapskate Monthly also has many excellent thrift tips for today's homemaker. Consumers Digest, a magazine that helps you stretch your dollar by getting the best buys. Mary Hunt's the Complete Cheapskate, a top-rated book about saving money and getting out of debt, available at Amazon.com. The Complete Tightwad Gazette, a top-rated book about thrifty living, available at Amazon.com.

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