Maternity leave on a shoestring...

[Bethla]

Love to hear ideas from others as I'm off the next few months...have a little in savings that I managed to put aside but definitely need ideas. Here's what I have so far:

-no eating out, we are a family of 5 and basically it's around $50 or $20 for fast food. I can make several meals with that amount of money.

-carpool with neighbor to get my oldest son to school, she does 3 days a week and I do two.

-put unused or other baby items on consignment

-yey it's spring we do not need to run heating/air

[Om Girl]

have a garage/yard sale to eliminate all un-used/un-necessary items...

keep a running list of needed items in your wallet, so when you're out and you find something on a good sale you can take advantage of it

barter or trade childcare with others

find awesome "free" things to do with your children...free museums, park & rec activities, etc.

[Bethla]

OOH good, keep the ideas coming. Forgot to add I will be breastfeeding and have a mama cloth stash and diaper stash already.

[zebra15]

Are you getting short term disability payments or leave of absence payments? will you have any income?

[Bethla]

Short term disability for the 8 wks I'm considered disabled. But I had no sick leave or vacation saved up as I used all of that for having bad morning sickness in my first trimester.