Visit your community center. Most of them offer a one year membership but that membership opens up a lot of perks. You can sign up for different programs. Cliché and formulaic, Keeping Up With the Joneses is a fairly generic action-comedy. The story follows a suburban couple that grows suspicious of their new neighbors. I really like beer. No, I really like beer. That means I’m constantly on the hunt for beers I can’t get in my current hometown of San Francisco and broker deals.

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Ways To Be Frugal. Frugal, tightwad, cheap, stingy are adjectives that some find offending. Why is there a negative connotation with these words? A lot of people struggle in life because we fail to realize how to live within and below our means. Some people get too busy looking into others peoples success without knowing the story behind it and do not realize you eventually fall into a pit of jealousy and insecurity. This is a poisonous path, leading you into a pretentious life just to keep up. I think it is a constant re- evaluation.

It may not be easy but it is totally worth it. You  can live well and live fruitfully by spending less. There are a lot of ways how we can save money. Here's 6. 8 ways that we can be frugal: GROCERIES, FOOD  Plan your meals. Eat out less and pack your lunch to work or school. Have a grocery budget and stick to it.

Plan on less money to begin with. Skip Starbucks. Make your favorite drink at home. Try this : Starbucks Copycat Recipes.

Make your own pantry staples. Try : 9 Pantry Staples That You Can Make at Home.

Clip coupons. Learn how to stack coupons ( store coupons with Manufacturer Coupons)Join Ibotta, checkout. Shopmium, Berrycart , a rebate app for your groceries. Earn cash for the items you always buy anyway. Double the savings by using coupons. Be creative with your left overs. Have a no grocery week, cook what's available in your pantry.

Serve more veggies than meat. Eat healthy. It will serve you good in the long run. Try a breakfast for dinner night. Think brinner. Shop dollar tree for healthy items like frozen fruits or single serve fish. Have a Meatless Friday nights.

Here's 2. 0 Tasty Meatless Meals. Make your own pizza. Make it a fun family night. Here's an easy Homemade Pizza Dough. Don't always stock up on ALL of the deals. If you always use it,then go for it.

After buying your produce and fruits, wash 'em and cut 'em as soon as you can. You will more than likely cook it or eat it when it's ready to go in advance. If you love to eat out once in a while , join their mailing list or mailing club. They offer rewards and coupons.

Like Chili's, it's nice to get a discount or a free kids meal. Host a freezer meal exchange party. Gather your friends, neighbors, relatives. Everybody makes a batch of freezer meal and exchange recipes with each other. Buy what's in season and freeze them.

Join a co- op. Keep a price book. What is a price book? Read here. Some men's products are cheaper than women's. Try men's shaving cream for instance! They are as good and sometimes much better than the leading brands.

ENTERTAINMENT2. 2. You don't have to sign up on all of the streaming videos. Quit the cable and go for chromecast specially if you have wi- fi at home. Visit parks instead of malls. Check nearby colleges and universities for free activities and cultural events.

Visit your library and get a library card. They have free rentals on DVDs and paid 3 day loan as well for a very reasonable price. Most libraries would let you take out 5. Visit your community center. Most of them offer a one year membership but that membership opens up a lot of perks. You can sign up for different programs ( sometimes free, sometimes you pay at a reasonable price).

You can find a yoga class, Zumba, CPR class, computer classes and much more! Check the dates for FREE entrances on National Parks and have a picnic or exploring day. KIDS FUN , ACTIVITIES AND LEARNING. Your local community center has a lot of fun things to offer as well for your kids ( See info on no.

If you are a low income family, you can ask about their scholarship program . Even though you don't qualify , their yearly resident or non resident membership is till very affordable. They have classes like Ballet, Self Defense/ Tae Kwondo/Kung Fu, hip hop dance, sports and more. Library - yep, they have free programs from tots to teens. Sign up for Macaroni kids - they send out weekly activities , free and fun things to do as a family in your area. Swap kids books with your neighborhood.

Host a neighborhood outdoor/backyard movie night. Everybody brings snacks to munch on and to share with. It's okay to let our children get bored, they will come up with something fun to do themselves that we adults wouldn't even think about. Never estimate what an empty box can do.

I remember our kids when they were toddlers, an empty box,crayons, markers and stickers kept them busy and happy. Love movies? Take advantage of matinee times and summer dollar movies. If you are in the military or a veteran, sign up at MILITARY. COM and ID. ME for discounts. Have a board game night. Always pack your snacks when traveling. Even when we traveled abroad, we brought our own water bottles and packed our kid's snacks.

HOME AND BEYOND4. Go through your bills and see which is the biggest budget sucker. If it is your cable bill or phone bill make a phone call to adjust your bill. We've done this and we did receive an awesome deal. But after a while, prices will go up again so don't be afraid to switch companies if needed.

Buy used clothes. Esp for kids, they grow up so fast. Find a nice second hand store or consignment store for kids.

Sell your used baby gear, clothes, kids clothes and toys ( and more!) at a consignment store. We have a couple here that do give you store credit and you can use that credit to shop at their store too! It is a great and fun event and you have perks when you volunteer and sell. See here for DETAILS. You don't always have to upgrade your gadgets to keep up with technology. If you are tempted to shop online or go out to a mall to splurge, pause before ordering and ask why are you buying. If you are just bored or sad, remember that shopping is only a temporary way to fill that void.

Ditch the gym. Transform a space in your house into a workout space. Have you tried Beachbody On demand? Watch The Lego Batman Movie (2017) Online. You can stream hundreds of proven workouts right into the comfort of your own home.

Need to buy bigger clothes? How about thinking of a long term solution? Enjoy a healthy lifestyle, later on when you reach your ideal health goals, you can buy clothes. You can now reward yourself. Think big here, yes you are going to spend later on BUT think about the other positive result from that. Your health. 4. 7. For cars : buy used cars, change your own oil regularly, share your car with your partner ( if you don't have kids), carpool, don't speed, change your air filter by yourself, wash your own car, re examine your auto insurance bills and shop around if needed.

Get rid of vices: smoking. No excuses. 4. 9. If you need more time, call the company  and they are usually willing to  work with you. That way , you will not accrue late payment fees.

It is not always wise to use your credit card. It is not free money. Yes it may free you up on a current situation but later on you will have to pay that bill. Use cash. 5. 1. Think before you spend.

Save for it. 5. 2. How To Watch Edge Of Seventeen (2016) Movie. Refill ink cartridges , don't always buy new ones. Costco usually sends out coupons for  already bargained refilling services. Speaking of Costco, you can split the annual membership with a room mate, neighbor or  a friend. You can also shop together. I remember doing this with my room mates, we bought a case of toilet paper and we all split the goods and the cost. Take advantage of refurbished items.

We bought a roku stick for $2. Plus, roku has a lot of free channels to watch. Be careful of . Fix any energy leaks(drafts) in your home. Seal the leaks because they make your a/c system work harder. Install aerating and low flow faucets and shower heads to save on your water bill. Consider wearing thick sweaters or bundling up in winter time to avoid all day usage of your heater.

When making necessary purchases, think quality. You may save a few dollars but it might not last as long or you may not get your money's worth. So might as well invest in a quality product. This is one department that my husband always reminds me, invest in a good one and it will keep you from buying all the time. Embrace DIY but don't always .

Stop keeping up with the joneses.

Movies So Bad You Forgot They Released In 2. Each year hundreds of movies are released into theaters around the world. When direct- to- DVD movies are taken into account, that number skyrockets into the thousands. With so many movies available to viewers every single week (sometimes as many as four new films debuting every Friday) it’s no wonder that many often get lost in the box office chaos. Viewers may take the time to watch the movie in a theater or via DVD when it hits the home market, but very few of those films stick inside their brains. This year, as we’ve done in previous years, we’ve picked twenty movies that were either so bad, bland or uninspired that many regular moviegoers simply forgot the movie released in the last twelve months. While some readers will most likely point to movies such as Warcraft, Suicide Squad or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows as being either bad or forgettable, those are major tentpole releases which performed reasonably well at the box office, and as such, aren’t generally forgotten about.

Instead, we’re focusing on movies that came and went without so much as a whisper from audiences and make you say, “Oh yeah! That movie DID come out this year.”  We’re also using the end of October as the cutoff, as many of the movies November and December are either still in theaters or continue to be fresh in people’s minds (even if they’ll ultimately prove to be utterly forgettable). Let’s take a look at the 2. Movies So Bad You Forgot They Released In 2. Norm of the North. Release Date: 1/1. With their generally lower budgets, animated movies can often be big winners for studios.

Kung Fu Panda 3, Finding Dory, Secret Life of Pets and more helped to dominate the box office in 2. However, for every well- received animated project, there’s a Norm of the North released that spoils the curve for everyone else.

Lionsgate was hoping Norm and his Arctic pals would bring in the cold hard cash, but instead, the film barely made back its $1. The movie follows the story of a greedy real estate agent who wants to develop the Arctic, pushing Norm and his lemming buddies out of their homeland. They head to Times Square to confront him, but Norm ends up being the mascot for his corporation instead. All things considered, the voice talents of Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong and Bill Nighy could have been put to better use elsewhere. Well, except perhaps for Schneider.

He feels right at home here. The 5th Wave. Release Date: 1/2. For the last few years, Hollywood has given every effort to capitalize on the popularity of young adult novels. Thanks to Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, and The Twilight Series, those adaptations worked for a time, and people flocked to the theaters in droves to see their favorite literary character come to life. But as they always seem to do, Tinseltown started stretching the limits of what was popular, so movies like The Golden Compass, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, and Ender’s Game suffered from a lack of audience interest.

From the get go, The 5th Wave felt like it would struggle finding an audience willing to shell out ten bucks to watch this movie in a theater. It didn’t help that the movie wanted audiences to believe a story about aliens tricking teens and kids into becoming soldiers who killed their parents. Fifty Shades of Black.

Release Date: 1/2. In 2. 01. 5, the erotic novel by E. L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey, became a bonafide success at the box office, as millions of people showed up to see Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) and Christian Grey (Jamie Doran) heat up the screen with their excursion into the world of BDSM. Of course, when something becomes a financial success or becomes wildly popular in pop culture, it’s won’t be long before someone parodies it.

Enter Fifty Shades of Black. By and large, parody movies don’t perform well critically, but Fifty Shades of Black managed to lower the bar spectacularly — and it was released after A Haunted House 2, Epic Movie and Dance Flick. The “comedy” stars parody regular Marlon Wayans and Kali Hawk as Christian Black and Hannah Steale, whose names are as uninspired as the story for the film. You can sit down and try to watch this movie, or you can have someone tie you up and hit you in the head repeatedly with a leather- embossed paddle, it’s your choice. You’ll likely get the same level of enjoyment out of it.

The Choice. Release Date: 2/5. If you’ve ever been in a relationship, chances are that at some point, you watched a movie based on one of the twenty novels written by Nicholas Sparks. The romance writer’s movies are rarely regarded in high esteem by critics (The Notebook is his highest rated movie at 5. Rotten Tomatoes) but they generally perform well at the box office.

However, at a $2. The Choice, is the exception, as it’s become the lowest performer of the group. Like most of his work, The Choice follows two people in love who have to overcome some hardship to either stay in love or stay together. As far as sappiness goes, his stories rank among the highest. However, The Choice ups the sappiness factor a hundred fold and the story suffers for it greatly.

By the time the ending rolls around, most audience members were left hoping that this was the last Sparks novel adaptation they’d have to sit through. Zoolander 2. Release Date: 2/1. In 2. 00. 1, the world was introduced to the exciting world of high fashion and really really really, ridiculously good- looking male models. Fifteen years later, people are still flashing “Blue Steel” whenever they’re mugging for the camera.

Truly, Ben Stiller left his mark on the world of comedy with the original Zoolander. The first movie had great characters, was completely self- aware, and presented a story that was borderline absurd without ever fully crossing that line. Unfortunately, Zoolander 2 tried to simply recycle the story, characters, and absurdity but lacked all the self- awareness that made the original so enjoyable. Instead of putting the characters beloved half a generation ago into new circumstances and situations, they just tossed in a bunch of tired pop culture icons and called it a day. The villain of film, Jacobim Magatu (Will Ferrell) is back, but everything ridiculous that made him interesting is gone, replaced by overused clich. Just about everyone was disappointed.

The Divergent Series: Allegiant. Release Date: 3/1. For all its unrealistic situations, scenarios, and stories, Divergent, based on the popular young adult novels, The Divergent Series, was fairly well received by audiences. The first film scored majored numbers at the box office but unsurprisingly drew ho- hum reviews from critics. Still, its success warranted the greenlighting three sequels, including Insurgent and Allegiant. Turns out, that may have been wishful thinking on the studio’s part. Worldwide, Allegiant performed okay, but domestically, the movie failed to even make back it’s working budget.

The dystopian future film starring Shailene Woodley and Theo James as teens trapped in an experimental society fell so far down the box office rabbit hole that Lionsgate moved the fourth and final film, Ascendant, to TV — a fate worse than cancellation. Woodley said she wouldn’t, then would, star in the ill- fated made- for- TV, but no one would blame her if she found a way to drop out entirely.

God’s Not Dead 2. Release Date: 4/1. Faith- based films have slowly been finding their way into the mainstream theater zeitgeist. Most of them are unspectacular, low- budget affairs — which means the acting, production, and story are generally filled with cheesy, overly- dramatic moments, sacrificing quality for the sake of including point blank Biblically- based parables and parallels juxtaposed against modern circumstances.

For most moviegoers looking for faith- based family drama, all of that is overlooked; however, that doesn’t mean the film is any “good”.