What’s Better Than a Five Dollar Footlong?

Jun 162011
 

 

 

 

Five things to do in San Diego under five bucks!

“Money doesn’t buy hap­pi­ness.” I’d like to add “it doesn’t buy fun either”! (ok, maybe it does, haha, but it doesn’t have too) Here are some great ways to enjoy your week­end for under $5 in the San Diego area. Get inspired to spend more time with fam­ily and friends  with­out break­ing the bank. Whether you live in SD or not, get a lit­tle cre­ative and search out fun things in your area to do. You might be sur­prised how many neat gems you find.

Tips:

–Google your city name with words like, free, fun, week­end, enter­tain­ment, movies, music, etc…and you will find a ton of cool stuff. You might have to sift through the junk a little.

–Have a con­test with your friends or fam­ily mem­bers (kids espe­cially) to see who comes up with the best idea/option. Then you’ll have a stock pile for the summer!

 

 

 

 

 

1. San Diego Food Truck Fes­ti­val At Lib­erty Sta­tion June 19th. Be sure to buy your ticket on my attached link for the $5 deal. For all you food­ies this is a great way to sam­ple San Die­gos food truck craze…

 

 

 

 

2. Sum­mer movies in the park is a fam­ily friendly venue that is com­pletely free! Movies start at dusk so be sure to get there in plenty of time to set up your cozy blan­kets, chairs and pic­nic goodies.

 

 

 

 

3. Vital Climing Gym is a great way to get your boul­der on! The first visit is free and shoe rental is $2. Warn­ing: it is addic­tive so you may end up going all the time!

 

 

 

 

 

4. Keys Creek Laven­der Farm in Val­ley Cen­ter give free tours. June is peak bloom so this is the per­fect time to go! Times are at 10:30 and 1:30 every Fri­day, Sat­ur­day and Sun­day. It is a walk­ing tour that cir­cles the fields near­est the gift store. It includes a view­ing of the dis­tillery and a dis­cus­sion on how we dis­till essen­tial oil. We talk about the dif­fer­ent types of laven­der that we have on the prop­erty and the home­o­pathic ben­e­fits of laven­der. The walk includes steps and slight inclines so it may not suit­able for those with sig­nif­i­cant mobil­ity restric­tions. No reser­va­tions are required. We meet at the gift store and the tour takes approx­i­mately 30–40 min­utes. Great place to take a fam­ily photo too!

 

 

 

 

5. CB Cup­cake Shop in San Mar­cos is a cool lit­tle spot to “build your own” cup­cake. You pick the cake, then the frost­ing and then the top­ping! It’s $3.50 for muf­fin size cup­cake and $1.50 for a mini. Great for a date night or a treat for the lit­tle ones…

*Feel free to add your sug­ges­tions on my comments!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • Nish

    TWSS

  • http://stylebaggage.com Nel­lene

    Glad you made it! Thanks for shar­ing with all of us… I can’t wait for next sea­son of the Great Food Truck Race.

  • Carey

    So I went to the food truck fes­ti­val. It was fun, not as big as yelp made it out to be. There were about 15 trucks. No craft beer. My sis­ter in law and I ate at crepes bona­partes, it was really great. We also got dessert there. My brother ate at kalibQ and that was super good too. There sis­ter truck dev­i­li­cious is going to be on the next sea­son of the next great food truck race.

  • http://stylebaggage.com Nel­lene

    Very cool sug­ges­tion which reminds me some Tues­days are only $3 at the San Diego Fair! Coupons and infor­ma­tion can be found at Albert­sons gro­cery stores.

  • Colleen

    Another great tip… for those unem­ployed or city employ­ees with fur­loughed work days, the San Diego County Fair is offer­ing free admis­sion. There are cer­tain restric­tions so check their web­site for details.