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Home Improvements Hell

Posted in home improvements on October 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I took a short trip to Home Improvement Hell today. If you own a home, you’ve been there and will know what I’m talking about.
We desperately need to get our house painted. We also need to have our gutters repaired and our deck repaired and refinished. And we’re quickly running out of warm weather in [...]

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Day 43

Posted in Daily $$'s, HBA, charity, dining, home improvements on October 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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

Posted in Daily $$'s, HBA, groceries, home improvements, household on October 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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 7

Posted in Daily $$'s, dining, home improvements on September 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Subway — $22.43Lunch for the handyman, the handyman’s son, and The Son
Chipotle — $6.34Dinner for The Daughter on the way home from a volleyball game.handyman & son — $100.00For tearing down that old shed that I’ve hated since we bought the house years ago. Also fixed the water line so now our in-fridge water dispenser [...]

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Day 6

Posted in Daily $$'s, home improvements, household on September 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Home Depot — $35.92Light bulbs for track lighting: 2) par20; 1) par30; 1) double-pin bulb. Boy these things are expensive. Combine the price of these bulbs with the energy bill… it’s incentive to start harping on the kids again to get them to turn off lights they aren’t using.
Ace Hardware — $24.17Two different solutions to [...]

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Day 2

Posted in Daily $$'s, dining, groceries, home improvements, instrument rental on September 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Home Depot — $31.83copper tubing and fittings necessary for friend to run a water line up from the basement to fridge in preparation of new fridge with ice maker
handyman — $80.00payment to my friend who ran the copper pipe waterline for the new fridge — he ran it up through the floor from the basement [...]

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