We’re lucky to have public Montessori preschool available to us where we live, so it was a no brainer to send P there this fall. Baby Cheapskate has a post up today about creative and frugal preschool alternatives, including the brilliant:

Start up a home preschool group. Before my oldest was old enough for preschool we joined a group of moms who traded off childcare responsibilities in exchange for a (much-needed!) break. In our group of six, four mommies would enjoy a morning off and two would say with the children, provide a few enriching activities, playtime, and a snack before pick-up time. It provided the kids with invaluable social experience and the opportunity to learn some basic skills from adults other than their parents. It would be simple to expand this with more of a ‘preschool’ curriculum.

I have to find some mommy friends with infants right now so we can do something like this when the triplets are a little older!

Attention Target Shoppers has an array of links detailing when items at Target are marked down or go on clearance. I always knew that some people had access to this information, but I never knew where they got it from. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing for me to have learned about…

Leaving Excess gave me some good ideas for lunches, especially useful is the tip (via Everyday Food Storage) to freeze sandwiches, which will thaw by lunch time. Excellent, certainly a plan for my kid who loves tuna salad!

Wall art made from fabric and embroidery hoops? I’ll even do you one better, ohdeeoh, I’m going to embroider each of my son’s initials in three different ones to hang over their cribs. And I’m going to use my favorite outgrown baby clothes. Someday. When I have a little time. And can find my embroidery floss.

Because of the price of pesticides, more organic food will be produced, bringing down the price of organics overall? Fantastic news for our pocketbooks and the environment.