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Frugal Family: Deals This Week in Los Altos

Find great deals on coffee, kids' dresswear, gardening supplies, pet food and Easter candy this week.

Each week, Frugal Family uncovers five unique local deals that will help your family save money—something we're all trying to do these days. Shopping locally brings revenue to our community and lets us get our errands done conveniently close to home.

We would appreciate hearing from you about the deals you've seen around town! Please add them to our comment box and check in with Frugal Family on Wednesdays to see what we've uncovered together.

This week, we've found great savings on coffee, kids' dresswear, gardening supplies, pet food and Easter candy.

1. Deal: This one might be obvious, but just in case you didn't know: Buy a pound of coffee at Peet's and get a free cup. Plus, Peet's has great deals on Mother's Day gifts right now. Good Through: Ongoing.

2. Sears Deal: 50 percent off girls' dresses and a sale on all kids' dresswear. And, there are other deals in the San Antonio Shopping Center store, because Sears is closing there. The sales prices have been worth watching. Good Through: Saturday.

3. Deal: Bargains on gardening supplies like wheelbarrows and hoses. Good Through: Check with store for details.

4. Petco Deal: $5 off Iams and Hill's Science Diet pet food wit PALS card. Good Through: Saturday.

5. Target Deal: $2.69 Easter candy—and don't miss the $1 bargain bins, either! Good Through: Saturday.

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Joan J. Strong May 22, 2013 at 11:21 am
Corrections: 1. Straw man attack: nobody is blaming BCS for district-wide growth. Nobody. 2. BCSRead More does not get "half the funding" of LASD. BCS gets about 6500 and LASD gets about 9500. The BCS program for typical children costs about twice as much as the comparable LASD program. BCS is simple an expensive hybrid public/private school, nothing more. 3. Mr. Roode pointed out that there are about 100 or so special ed. students at LASD (I cannot verify this but it seems very low). LASD calls out an annual expense of $7.5 million for special ed. meaning each of these students cost LASD $75,000, not $1,000 as he implied. 4. The law and the courts have ALREADY compelled LASD to give reasonably equivalent facilities and they have. BCS has a lower student/teacher ratio meaning that they have more classrooms for the same number of kids. This is not, legally speaking, LASD's problem. 5. Mr. Roode has yet to explain how the Covington campus could be 16 acres. Further, he continues to spread the fallacy that campuses ACREAGE is even remotely relevant to its student capacity. Campuses are limited by their location and traffic, not how many acres of grass there is in the back. 6. Were it not for BCS, we would have passed a bond in the last election, as the polling shows. BCS litigation has ripped our community apart and has left it with a mountain to climb when it comes to operating in a normal fashion.
L.A. Chung (Editor) May 22, 2013 at 10:37 am
@David R. I think Homestead uses EarthCare Recycling, based on its April 6 E-Waste collection dayRead More publicity (http://bit.ly/10mIV14) : www.earthcarerecycling.com "Recycle FREE your old electronic equipment - working or not! Anything with a plug or PC board inside. Also accepted are non-household batteries, VHS tapes and other media, and scrap metal. Visit www.earthcarerecycling.com for a list of accepted items. "
David R. May 21, 2013 at 10:26 pm
What kind of bins are there? Do you take used CDROMs? How about VHS tapes? Cables and wire?
David R. May 20, 2013 at 01:18 pm
I saw a public report that said most of the discussion related to carpooling and so forth, sinceRead More Blach is separated so much from the rest of the school. You know, things like dropping off both kids at Egan, and then a group of kids headed for Blach share a ride or vice versa. I don't see how any nonparents can really help with that.