10 Quick Tips to finding Cheap Lift Tickets (Skiing and Snow Boarding)

10 Quick Tips to finding Cheap Lift Tickets

1. If you’re a down hill maniac (ski or snowboarder you might want to consider purchasing a season pass (if you plan on skiing at least 20 times at the same location during a season).
2. Buying books of lift tickets early in the season (before you hit the resort) may save you 50%?
3. Check out the ski packages being offered by the resorts where you plan to ski or snow board.  If you plan on renting equipment, taking lessons and/or staying at their lodge, it might be cheaper to purchase a package deal. Just like at Disney World, multi-day tickets can save you money if you plan ahead.
4. Always inquire ahead of time to see if the resort offers discount tickets for seniors, students and/or kids.
5. Checkout the continuously updated ski and snowboarding deals on  http://www.Snowbomb.com discount coupons.
6. Keep an eye out for lift ticket discounts at gas stations (e.g. Shell)
7. It is not uncommon to find lift ticket discount deals at participating Mc Donald’s restaurants.
8. Grocery and drug stores can also be great sources of cheap lift tickets.
9. Give the resorts in the area that you want to visit a call ahead of time and ask them if they are offering any ski or snow boarding deals online and/or through business or restaurant establishments.
10. Ask your fellow snow craving friends as well as local sporting goods stores if they know of any good deals.

As with most of the savings tips we provide on our web site, you should several of the ideas that we list to ensure that you are receiving the rock bottom lowest price on your ski vacation.

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Free unusual eCards for Kids

Below is a list of free unusual electronic greeting cards for Kids.  These are great cards for kids to send to friends and family or for family members to send to kids.   You won’t have to worry about your cards arriving late and you end up paying zip for postage.    A side benefit of many of these cards is that they may draw your kids into other fun and educational offerings on the same web site.

American Girl Doll eCards

National Geographic for Kids free eCards

Highlights Magazine eCards

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Yahoo!Kids eCards

Colonial Williamsburg eCars

Smithsonian Museums eCards

PBS Kids Arthur eCards

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While you won’t be able to obtain credit or an MIT college degree, the MIT Open Courseware online e-learning curriculum provides lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT.  No registration is required and there are 1900 courses published so far.   So, if you’re the curious type that craves learning, this freebie may be for you.

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Coupons

Coupons are not created equal.   So you really need to pay attention how much of a discount that you’re actually receiving.

Examples of good coupon offers include

• Free (if none or very little strings are attached).
• Provides a discount of 15% or greater.
• Buy one get one free.
• A coupon that will allow you to combine it with other coupons and offers.
• A coupon of a product or service that you were planning on obtaining anyway.

Less desirable coupon offers will require you to spend a lot of money while yielding you a comparatively small discount.

So, do the match on how much money that you are actually saving.

Finding free stuff that’s actually free….

When it comes to free stuff, the saying “there is no such thing as a free lunch” applies most of the time.  You end up working for potentially  free stuff  by giving out your email and street addresses, completing surveys and jumping through several internet based hoops.    We took a look around on the internet and found some deals that are actually free.

• Earn college credits (or even a degree) by taking free online courses.  No, were not kidding.  That being said, you will need to do some leg work of your own for this to work.
  • We think that this web site is probably the best place to start.  Remember stay away from the many bait and switch web sites where free is not actually free.
• Free software
  • If don’t feel like shelling a bunch of cash for Microsoft’s office product, try the free software equivalent called  open office (Word processing (like Microsoft Word), Spreadsheet software (like Excel), a drawing application (like Visio) and even presentation software (like Power Point).
  • Free software replacements for proprietary applications running on Microsoft windows.
  • A well respected and free Anti-Virus software package known as AVG
  • Ad-Aware free SpyWare removal software.
• Free Food
  • Apparently Saturdays are the best time to snag free samples at grocery and warehouse stores (like Costco)
  • Kids eat free deals  (search for restaurants by zip code)
  • Sign up for email specials directly on restaurant web sites (only give out a trashable email address that you will check weekly.  Never give out your actual street address or phone numbers if you want to avoid unwanted spam).  Examples include:  El Torito,  Sizzler,  Olive Garden,  California Pizza Kitchen, PF Changs Outback Steak House , Dennys
• Free teacher and learning resources from the Federal Government
  • Federal resources for education excellence.
• Free eBooks  – Project Gutenberg has 28,000 eBooks to download and print free.
  • Project Gutenbert FREE ebooks
• Free Internet Radio customized to your specific artists.  Essentially, you build the station play list yourself.
  • Pandora Internet Radio
• Print your own Free graph paper (several different styles)
  • Incompetech Free Graph Paper PDF’s
• Create your own work or personal planner forms. Choose from about 100 templates.
  • Download, print and customize your own planner at D*I*Y planner
• Kinda Free stuff - There  are tons of free stuff web sites on the internet.  Most of them will require you to provide your name, email and street address, etc.  If you want to try this, I would strongly suggest that you:
  • Sign up with the post office for a local post office box ($30 for 6 months).
  • Create a new email address that you are willing to trash later
  • Never provide your real birthday, social security number or phone number (or any other private information).
  • So, when you sign up provide them with your P.O. Box Address, your new trashable email address, a fake birthday, etc.
  • Go forth and Google something like “free stuff”
  • One final word of advice, if the site suggests that you try something to win a discount coupon, etc.  Skip it and move on.   The main thing you have to loose is your time.
• More kinda free stuff.
  • 250 Business Cards for Free?
    Well, not exactly.  After going through the online setup for the free business cards,  you’re billed about six bucks for the shipping and handling.  And that is the cheap slow boat to china shipping option.  So, you figure that might make two to three bucks on the deal.  The other not so free aspect of  order the business cards online is the avalanche of  offers you need to skip (or de-select) before you can finalize your order.  That being said, it was worth it for us to sign up for the not so free cards.  If you are interested just google “free business cards”.