Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is to find a place to be long. Become
Speaker 1: a member at a local destination you enjoy, and you
Speaker 1: will be able to give yourself and your family an
Speaker 1: appealing entertainment option for even short periods of time. On
Speaker 1: my other podcast, Best of Both Worlds, my co host
Speaker 1: Sarah and I recently shared what we called a long
Speaker 1: weekend with Little Kid's Survival Guide. One of the tips
Speaker 1: was that being a member at a fun, local place
Speaker 1: can make weekends easier. Not so much that you plan
Speaker 1: a trip to the local children's museum as your big
Speaker 1: adventure for the day, though of course you could. It's
Speaker 1: more that being a member makes the marginal cost of
Speaker 1: going zero. You aren't going to pay an admissions fee
Speaker 1: for that particular trip, so you are more likely to
Speaker 1: go even if you don't have much time or there
Speaker 1: is a high possibility that your visit will be cut short.
Speaker 1: You can see how this plays out. If you are
Speaker 1: paying one hundred twenty dollars to take your family to
Speaker 1: the zoo, you are going to want to stay there
Speaker 1: all day. You are going to be upset if your
Speaker 1: kids start screaming that they hate the zoo fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: in and just won't stop, this, of course, being the
Speaker 1: kid who absolutely loved the zoo the last time you went.
Speaker 1: But if you are a member, the extra cost to
Speaker 1: go for a visit is nothing, so you could go
Speaker 1: for a short time. Let's say your kid wakes up
Speaker 1: from their nap at three pm and the zoo closes
Speaker 1: at five pm. Not a problem, get your snack, get
Speaker 1: in the car, and enjoy your hour long visit. Even
Speaker 1: if you didn't get there until four fifteen, it would
Speaker 1: probably be fine. You could see two exhibits and leave.
Speaker 1: Given how important it is to have something interesting and
Speaker 1: fun in that post nap slot, this can be a
Speaker 1: very useful thing. Indeed, Or if you are a member
Speaker 1: at the children's museum and your kid has a total
Speaker 1: meltdown ten minutes into a visit, you can follow through
Speaker 1: on that threat to leave. There's no marginal extra cost
Speaker 1: to that visit, so why not. Even for adults, it
Speaker 1: is nice to have a membership. You can see a
Speaker 1: single exhibit at an art museum on a lunch break,
Speaker 1: for instance, rather than thinking you should stay at the
Speaker 1: museum for hours, as you might if you are paying
Speaker 1: for admission. When you want to get your money's worth,
Speaker 1: you won't go for a short period of time, but
Speaker 1: that might mean that you won't go at all. Better
Speaker 1: to pay the money up front and then go in
Speaker 1: the little marginal bits of time now. Obviously, a membership
Speaker 1: tends to be a little more expensive than a single visit,
Speaker 1: though it might not be much more expensive than two visits.
Speaker 1: So with the holidays coming up, you could be strategic
Speaker 1: and ask from memberships to places as gifts. If grandparents
Speaker 1: are looking to give your family something, a zoo pass
Speaker 1: and an aquarium pass might fill a lot of weekends,
Speaker 1: whereas a toy might get discarded after an hour. When
Speaker 1: you have somewhere you belong, it makes weekend fun, free, easy,
Speaker 1: and reliably appealing. So find somewhere to belong and you
Speaker 1: will probably enjoy that place more In the meantime. This
Speaker 1: is Laura, Thanks for listening, and here's to making the
Speaker 1: most of our time. Thanks for listening to before Breakfast.
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