(MONEY Magazine) – $28.99 Couch potatoes might consider the 100-channel DISH Network package. The monthly fee is little more than basic cable. And you can install it yourself; hardware costs $200 to $500.

$49.95 Railroad Tycoon II, a software strategy game, lets you chug past spectacular vistas and maneuver through economic scenarios that start in 1804. You can issue bonds, trade stocks or stage takeovers.

$179 The Bauer 1000 and CCM 442 ice skates are virtually the same price and quality. But one will fit you better, so try on both brands. The skates should be tight and stiff, since leather stretches with time.

$18.75 Shares of Just for Feet fell from $29 along with other sportswear stocks after Nike faltered. But FEET carries gear for all seasons, a 19.6 P/E and a projected 42% earnings growth rate.

$398 Warm weather in the north is driving down prices in the Caribbean. Round trip New York to Nassau, plus three days, four nights in a first-class hotel, usually costs $500 to $600 in winter.

--BRIAN MURPHY AND JUDY FELDMAN