Our daycare went up this year by $10/week. They offered some discounts if we paid in advance for 2013 b the end of 2012.
A. If you pay at least one quarter in advance, you paid last year's rate.
B. If you paid 1/2 year in advance, you paid last year's rate and got a 5% discount.
C. If you paid 1 year in advance, you paid last year's rate and got a 10% discount.

We took advantage and paid a half year in advance. I wish we could have done a full year but we didn't want to drain more savings to do so. The best part is, we're making ourselves save more each month by sending what we would have paid to daycare that month without the discounts.