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 will be dedicated to giving you five great local deals each week that will help your family's bottom line, and since we do the scouting for you, you can save time as well as money.

You are a big part of this column. Let us hear about the deals you've seen. Just add them to our comment box. Then come back each week and see what we've uncovered together.

This week, Frugal Family scoured our local sources to come up with great deals.

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1. Range Guns & Safes  

Deal: $37.50 for $75 (50% discount) on 10 one-hour visits to the Pistol Range. Guns and Safes is a full service shooting range, store and training center. Its knowledgeable and professional staff accommodates the needs of the experienced shooter and as well as the new.

Good Through: Check website daily. Depends on number of buyers each day.

2. Atlanta Property Restoration: Mattress Cleaning

Deal: $94 for $250 (62% value) on mattress cleaning by Atlanta Property Restoration. It might come as a shock to many, but the mattress on which we spend one third of our lives is a teeming world of tiny creatures (belonging to the spider family).

Good Through: Check website daily. Depends on number of buyers each day.

3. The Highland Inn

Deal: Pay just $50 and receive $100 at The Highland Inn located in the Poncey-Highland neighborhood of Atlanta. Nestled in the heart of the two hippest neighborhoods in the Atlanta, The Highland Inn offers its visitors a special hotel experience. The hotel was built in 1927 and originally known as the Wynne Hotel and Tea Room. It was renovated in 1996.                              

Good Through: Check website daily. Depends on number of buyers each day.

4. LobotoMe Notepads

Deal: $10 for $20 (50% discount) on cute, creative notepads to manage all your daily tasks and reminders. Keep track of babysitters, household chores, kids’ sports, and more. Printed on recycled paper with soy-based inks.

Good Through: Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011. Free shipping on orders over $45. Expires Dec. 13, 2011.

5. 1-800-Flowers

Deal: Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011, is WIFE APPRECIATION DAY. Wow her with a bouquet of roses from $29.99 to $250 with a Lenox glass and crystal vase. Deal of the week includes 40% off Autumn Farm Fresh Bouquet as well.

Good Through: Check website daily. While supplies last!

Editor's note: Nickie Sears-Schroeder is a busy wife and mother with two boys ages 7 and 6. Nickie serves as a room mother and on a PTA art committee at the boys' school. In addition, Nickie cheers for her sons at swim team, basketball and T-ball/baseball and for her husband's softball and baseball teams. She also enjoys captaining her subdivision's C-level ALTA tennis team and has served as Community and Facility Social Director. At Sugarloaf United Methodist Church, she is the Outside Events Coordinator and volunteers as a Greeter/Kids & Nursery Crew Leader. For 14 years, she has been a meeting, conference and convention planner as well as a travel director. She also recently started a professional organizing business for homes and offices called Peaceful Nooks & Crannies, which is also a co-op partner at FYI (Frugally Yours Interiors) in Historic Downtown Duluth. A former president of the Moms Club of Duluth East, Nickie values the club as a source of friendship and support for her whole family.