Ikea

You love Ikea for their inexpensive, do it yourself, home improvement projects, especially for your childrens space, but did you know you could even pull off a date night IN Ikea? If you have potty trained children, there is a fabulous play area in the Ikea stores, where you drop off your children (1 hour maximum) for FREE! They are supervised by trained child care workers and have lots of fun things for kids to do inside. Once you have dropped them off, you and your significant other can head to the dining area and have a quiet meal (cafeteria style) for under $10 easily! That means you can have a sitter for an hour and dinner for less than $10 - now that's a deal! Tuesday's they offer $2.49 Swedish meatball meals (trust me, for $2.49 it is fantastic!), Wednesday is $7.99 bbq rib night and there are other specials on other nights. If you want to make it a family outing and do a little shopping then you can drop the kids off, shop, load the car, come back and get the kids and then enjoy the 99cent kids meals as a family and let your kids enjoy the play area and special childrens tables in the dining room. Also look for coupons for FREE or 99cent meals in your paper and mailed flyer packs on a regular basis. I see them at least twice a month. Ikea is located in Schaumburg (just north of Woodfield Mall off of Golf) and in Bolingbrook (west of 355).