How To Find The All About Cereal Boxes

Cereal boxes

As a mother of three children, I have been through the craze of cereal boxes. When a new cartoon or movie comes out, within weeks there are cereal boxes depicting the new craze. It is almost enough to make your head spin. What I've also noticed is how the cereal boxes are starting to cost so much more money these days. Some of them are nearing $4.00. In my opinion, that is absolutely way too much money to be spending. For me, if I let each one of my children pick out a box of cereal, I could be easily spending $10.00 a week for merely three boxes. I don't think so. It took me a while to figure out that it is not the cereal itself that costs so much money, it is the actual cereal boxes. Apparently cardboard and the coloring of ink and patterns on the cereal boxes is what is expensive. Some people save cereal boxes. I'm not one of those individuals but I suppose that if someone came out with a cereal box that I just had to save for future viewings, I would spend the money. But, that's not something I find
necessary to do.

What I found myself doing to save some money each week, was checking out the cereal that comes in bags. Sure, it is a generic brand and might not taste identical to the name brand cereal, but it is still cereal. My kids can't tell the difference between generic Cheerios or name brand Cheerios. All that matters to them is that they can finish their bowls before their siblings do. They simply know that the cereal is no longer in the fancy cereal boxes. At first, my kids pouted and whined because they no longer got to choose their cereal boxes. But, after several weeks of realizing that I was not going to give in, they stopped asking. I was able to save almost $6.00 each week. What I decided to do then is to continue saving money but letting my kids have a bit more of a choice. Each week, one of them would get to pick out a cereal box that they wanted. The next week, it was someone else's turn. And so on. While I was still spending a tiny amount of extra money on the fancy cereal boxes, I was still saving some

as well. By allowing my kids to take turns choosing their cereal boxes, they still had something to look forward to and learned to take turns. They would always try to influence each other's choices, but the chosen child always held true to their own favorite cereal boxes. It has worked out wonderfully for us.