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 43

Church — $15.00Weekly offering.
Einstein Bros Bagels — $11.30Bought lunch for The Son and The Daughter. We ate there and I splurged letting the kids have “sandwiches” and cookies and sodas, too. No bucket deal this week. We had an hour to kill before dropping The Daughter at school for a play rehearsal so we “dined [...]

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Day 42

Kroger phamacy — $15.59I was not a happy camper this morning when I got to the pharmacy to pick up my prescriptions. See, last month my employer had to change insurance companies because the previous insurer was pulling out of our state. So we got all the paperwork done and were told we’d have the [...]

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Day 34

Target — $10.50Picked up the photos of The Kids today and got suckered into adding an extra sheet to my package. It was a full-sheet with multiple sized photos in the pose of them standing back to back — my favorite shot. I really shouldn’t be allowed to do any shopping when I’m feeling this [...]

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Day 27

Best Buy — $20.00Gift card for The Daughter to give to a friend/classmate for his 16th birthday.Target — $10.22Shampoo, conditioner, elastic hairbands, and bobby pins — all for The Daughter.Gap Outlet — $76.92Socks, sweater vest, and khaki shorts for The Son. The shorts will have to be returned because the inseam length is ridiculously [...]

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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 15

Church — $10.00weekly offeringWild Oats — $29.24Pizza slices and drinks for The Son and The Daughter; sushi tray and Odwalla juice for me. Also veggies and dishwasher tablets.Kroger — $35.74groceries: Amy’s frozen burritos (buy one, get one sale), ice cream, lunch meat, corn chips, chocolate chip cookies, cheese, over-ripe bananas (for banana bread), chewing gum [...]

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Day 8

church — $15.00weekly offering.Wild Oats — $9.11Pizza and a soda for The Son for lunch after church. Gallon of milk; first gallon that I’ve dared to buy for over a month since realizing that my milk was going bad every other day or so because the fridge was dying.Kroger — $101.56Big time grocery shopping to [...]

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Penny Pincher Note

I received a package from Amazon yesterday — a belated birthday gift from my sister. Included in the package was a flyer for Amazon’s new on-line grocery service. It’s called “subscribe and save” and the concept is that you sign up for regular delivery of products and you save an additional 15 % off their [...]

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