Chuck E Cheese

   I know, Not another Big Rat for us to pay. But for kids of all ages...but especially the little ones. Here is a great bargain. Sometimes they are crowded and it might scare you that losing track of Little Lisa is a possibility. They now have an employee standing right at the door. When you come in you get a black light stamp that matches only those in your group. They diligently check these before any child leaves the room.         
      Now with that out of the way let's get to the saving money part. If you haven't been in a while or if you've never been, all games are one token to play. So the games that are at the other video arcades that cost $1.00 to play cost at most a quarter. All the bigger kids want are the newest and best and if we can give it to him for a quarter and still make his day we are on the right track. They even have a cool machine that takes a picture of you and draws it out like an artists picture. Sure you can get this at Disney in the same machine for $5.00, but I prefer my quarter price. And these are priceless. We have dozens of these from over the years.We cram as many in as we can, and it makes the best souvenir that you will frame as soon as you get home. They are that cool.
     Now maybe the littler ones aren't into all the video games (YET). You make out with an even better price for them. FREE. All the Chuck E Cheese locations have different areas for the different size kids to enjoy. The baby/ toddler room has ball pits and all kinds of things to climb over and through. And even better...No Big Kids Allowed. Now Little Lisa can have fun and not worry about those other kids running her over. The roof has giant tubes weaving and dipping all over the restaurant. Kids explore the labyrinth and always you can hear at least one kid yelling."Mom look at me".

    I think you have to agree with me that this is a great way to save money and wear those kids out so we can relax. But this wouldn't be my column if I didn't tell you even more ways to save money and have fun. You could clip the coupons that come weekly in all that junk mail. Me? I am way to lazy to go through all of it. So, my suggestion to you is throw it out. We have these great contraptions called computers and I couldn't live without them. I found this site yesterday.

http://printable-coupons.blogspot.com/2005/12/chuck-e-cheese-coupons.html

  Now take your time and read them all. This is an ever changing list so take 5 minutes to read. I printed out the sports award that gives every kid 10 free tokens. Just write their name in the space. Also we are getting a pizza and drinks so I browsed all those and see what the best deal for you is. If you are not eating they even have buy 100 tokens get 100. So for $25 you end up with 200 tokens plus whatever you have free. One last pointer is, if you live near a Chuck E Cheese, buy the plastic cups and reuse every time you go. If you go twice you have received a good deal. Remember Keep Saving Money and Having Fun.