Frugal Family: Books, Clothes and Sports Gear

We're all watching our family budgets these days. Whether shopping with coupons or looking for two-for-one deals, we're taking advantage of all sorts of offers and savings that help us stretch our dollars.

This column will be dedicated to giving you five great local deals each week that will help your family’s bottom line, and since we do the scouting for you, you can save time as well as money.

You are a big part of this column. Let us hear about the deals you've seen. Just add them to our comment box.

Then come back each week and see what we've uncovered together.

This week, Frugal Family scoured our local sources to come up with great deals on clothes, books and entertainment.

Remember to check with businesses for additional conditions:

1. Aeropostale's 4th Annual Jeans for Teens Sale
Deal: Swing over to the Deptford Mall, donate an old pair of jeans and get a new one for 25 percent off–and your old jeans go to charity. Plus, there's another jeans sale going on right now.
Good through: Feb. 13

2. 76ers Family Four-Packs
Deal: Four tickets, four sodas and four hot dogs for as little as $59–or about what you'd spend on four of the least expensive seats in the house. The deal's good for up to eight people.
Good through: April 13 on select home games.

3. Dick's Sporting Goods Spring Sports Sale
Deal: Even though it's still technically winter, equipment for various spring sports is available. If you want to qualify as the way-too-into baseball parent, you can pick up a pitching machine at anywhere from a $50 to $100 discount.
Good through: March 31

4. Barnes & Noble Paperback Sale
Deal: If your kids are more bookworm than shortstop, select trade paperbacks are buy one, get the second 50 percent off.
Good through: March 2

5. Kohl's Two-Day Sale
Deal: Select kids' clothing is as little as $6.99, and select clothing for infants and toddlers is 50 percent off–plus, there are the tons of other sales that are going on at the same time, for everything from bedding to athletic shoes.
Good through: Wednesday night, so hurry.