Affordable tickets

I'm so busy in the past few days trying to catch some affordable airfares for our upcoming trip this march. It seems like getting tickets specially with a closer date is difficult to find cheaper ones. We have seen flights that are going up and down but yet, it never hit to our budget. This is like hunting for a laptop deals on black friday. lol Speaking of laptops, our friend is wanting to buy a new and affordable one. He had a laptop before but until now it is still in the repair shop because the motherboard was broke--somehow. The repairman asked him tons of hundreds so he opted to get new one instead. Well, i hope he can find a great deal though...