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Watching the miles

I will be taking my children into Little Busy Town for Vacation Bible School every nite this week. Six to 8:30 pm every nite (with the last night being a family program and dinner).
This will be [approximately] an additional 136 miles in driving this week.
Our car averages about 25 miles to the gallon for this length of trip and gas is hovering around $3.85 right now.
So it will be an additional $21.00 in gas.
To some it may not seem like much but our weekly gas budget for my car is $40.00. That’s half my budget.
So how will I make this work? By cutting back the rest of my schedule and doing extra odds and ends such as . . . . .
Taking numerous boxes and bags of STUFF to Goodwill. We have been unable to take this accumulation (all on my front porch right now) on previous trips into town because of carting different loads of stuff with us (like pool toys and such). I calculate that it will take at least two car trips to take everything to Goodwill.
Also- I will do my errand running while the children are at VBS. I will still need to make a trip to Aldi’s as its location is in an opposite direction.
Another idea is to pack up my school planning “stuff” and utilize a table at the local library while the kids are VBSing.
Plus there is a book store in town with a gi-normous used book section where I can while away some time . . . .
The way I’m calculating things- I will only be making 2.5 trips in the car to locations other than Little Busy Town and VBS.
1 trip to Aldi’s.
1 trip to sister-in-law’s for homeschool group summer fun and what I consider
.5 trip from VBS location to my own church for a board meeting and then back to VBS.
By my calculations these other trips will total around $10 in gas which should bring me in just under budget.
It is my plan to do everything I can not to do any — at all— additional driving.