Day 62

I’d hoped that today could be a “no spend” day but The Tank’s tank was empty and, as we all know, cars don’t tend to run very well when they’re out of gas. I suppose I could have waited until tomorrow but that would have been quite inconvenient as The Daughter has to be [...]

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Day 55

School — $28.50One month’s worth of catered hot meals (organic vegetarian) for The Daughter at school (2 meals per week for three weeks). Includes main dish, side of fruit, and juice or milk.Costco — $2.75The Son had pizza and a soda for lunch while I shopped.
Costco — $58.09Today I splurged and indulged The Son’s request [...]

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Day 52

Costco Gas — $56.72The Tank’s tank was empty so we left the house early on the way to The Son’s Tuesday classes so we could stop by Costco for a fill-up. I pumped 21.251 gallons @ $2.669/gal. My odometer reads 115,440.
Target — $35.09Today almost turned into a Shopping-While-Impared day (my pain level is depressingly high) [...]

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Day 38

Qwest — $160.23Covers our land line including our 3 options — caller ID, messaging, and in-home wiring insurance — plus our three cell phones with a 750 minute cross-country planCostco — $67.0424-pk of AAA batteries, 5-pk of lint rollers, box of kitchen trash bags, foam sled (for The Son), 18-ct Nest Fresh eggs, box of [...]

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Day 32

Comcast — $38.85This month’s bill was supposed to reflect two credits for service calls that were on last month’s bill. But I got the bill today and it only reflected one credit. So I used the on-line chat again and got another promise that the credit would be on the next bill. Yeah, sure. It [...]

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Day 18

Costco — $2.79A slice of pizza and a soda for The Son for dinner.Costco — $74.24A case of Hansen natural soda (a decadent, I-shouldn’t-be-shopping-this-late-when-I’m-this-tired purchase), a gross of Bounty paper towels, Taster’s Choice coffee for The Husband, a sack of Mini Babybell cheeses, a case of Capri 100% Juice “boxes”, huge box of Goldfish snack [...]

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Day 17

Exxon — $20.00Not a fill-up because I couldn’t stop at either of my usual gas stations but I needed gas so I got $20’s worth.Arby’s — $17.67Dinner for The Son, The Daughter, and The Husband on our way home from watching a varsity game.Pixie Soap — $21.20“Oats Gone Wild” handmade soap — I’m simply addicted [...]

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Day 5

Whole Foods — $7.16lunch for The Son after today’s cello lesson (pizza and a soda) and snack for me (Odwalla B Berrier)Gas — $57.82put 20.43 gallons into the SAV (suburban assault vehicle), aka SUV. It’s got 113,337 miles on the odometer now.Kroger — $2.04large head of green leaf lettuce. [Since the new fridge is supposed [...]

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