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Five Great Deals: March 3-9

Children's Museum of Southeastern Connecticut; Big Y; Wolf Den; Family Maple Sugaring, 40% off seeds.

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 gives you five great local deals each week to help your family’s bottom line. Do you know any great deals this week that we missed? Add them in the comments!

1. Children's Museum of Southeastern Connecticut

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Deal:  Free First Fridays.  Children's Museum of Southeastern Connecticut is free on Friday March 4th from 5-8pm.  A bilingual progam of stories and projects.  860-691-1111.  Meet your other friends stuck home with their kids!

2. Big Y

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Deal: These items are buy-one-get-one-free from Thursday March 3rd to Wednesday the 9th: Driscoll's 1 lb. strawberrys, all natural Angus beef eye round roast or steak; Crystal Farms cheese bars, boneless skinless chicken breast and chicken tenders, Pepsi or Diet Pepsi, Gortons family fish packs, fresh ground turkey, Big Y bagels, Utz 10 oz. potato chips, Progressso Traditional soups, Betty Crocker potatoes, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish, Hormel pork tenderloin and chops, Purdue chicken drumsticks, Thomas' English muffins, Drake's coffee cakes, Big Y jumbo shrimp, Big Y chunk light tuna, rainbow rose or butterfly garden rose bouquet.  Buy one get TWO Free Butterball turkey bologna, Jenny O turkey franks and Big Y dryer sheets.  They also have a raffle this month for 5 family four pack to Coco Key water resort in Waterbury, CT.  Coloring forms are at Big Y or www.bigy.com.

3. Robert Cray and David Cassidy

Deal: Robert Cray ("Smoking Gun" and "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark") on Friday, March 4th at 8pm and David Cassidy ("Cherish" and "I think I love You") on Saturday, March 5th.  Located in the center of the action in the casino at the Wolf Den at the .  Full service bar and a state-of-the-art sound system--and it's all free!!

4. Family Maple Sugaring

Deal: Saturday, March 5th from 10am to 11:30 am at . Tap Bauer Parks maple trees, taste the sap, and learn how to turn it into syrup.  Then taste again.  Information on how to tap the maple trees in your own yard.  $5 per person, $15 per family.

5. 40 percent off seeds

Deal: Ladies and gentlemen, start your seeds!  has 40 percent off 2011 Burpee seeds.  You know all the gardening stuff you need is there: the pots, starter soil, and gardening equipment--for a lot less.  They always do.

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