beating boredom...thrifty style

It is rainy and cold here.  Friday night, no plans, no money to do much even if we had plans (we are anticipating a layoff before Christmas for Hubby so we are scrimping and saving and preparing...yet again..sigh) so we had a movie night.  The rundown..

3 personal pizzas (bought a few months ago on clearance at Walgreens for 50 cents each)
microwave popcorn (65 cents for 3 bags from the bent and dent)
carrots and dip (left overs from last week)
BLT dip and chips from the store $3
2 redbox movies $2
4 pack of good rootbeer $4 (a splurge!!)
a snack cake from the local grocery store $3.

playing around and enjoying the time with my kids and letting them have a picnic on the living room while we watched the movies= priceless.

Lately we have been ordering out on Fridays, mostly pizza but occaisionally running out and getting McDonalds (dollar menu and no sodas...we eat at home so we drink what we have here) or Subway (footlong and chips from home feeds all 4 of us..not full but we add in other stuff we have here) but we really need to watch it better.  It can become quite pricey for the four of us to eat out.  I want to try and do this more often but I want to vary it a little more, family game night?  getting a little cold here for picnics in the park or stuff like that but maybe we can find something fun to do.  Like building a tent in the livingroom and having a "camp in".  hmmmm.  That's an idea!