I want a new car. It doesn’t have to be new new, but just new to me. Still, with the recent improvements in MPGs, new new might win out. I even have a legitimate reason for wanting a new car- we currently have two sedans. That means we do not have a car that can accommodate three dogs and a car seat. And since we won’t stop going to the dog park once we have aread more…
Day Amount Place Category Monday $40.00 Cash Allowance Tuesday $40.00 Urgent Care/RX Medical $11.00 Pizza Groceries Wednesday $45.00 C’s Birthday Eating Out Thursday $15.00 PT Medical Friday $50.00 Gas Car Saturday $123.00 CostCo Groceries $42.00 Safeway Groceries Sunday $15.00 Safeway Groceries $50.00 Gas Car Spent every day this week, partly because of my shoulder injury and C’s birthday. We filled both cars up this weekend. Also, Safeway is having a buy 2 get 3 free saleread more…
The weekends just seem to get busier and busier. I remember those carefree days when I started “What I’m Reading” while C was in school on Saturdays. Now, I feel like I have maybe 20 minutes on my computer during the day. So here we go for another whirlwind look at what I’ve been reading. Kids are on my mind. Deal with it. So I’ve loved Average Joe’s series on summer activities to create moneyread more…
C is supposed to write a post for me, but he keeps not doing it. Today the reason was a migraine. But I have really no thoughts for a coherent post, so here are some notes on how this week is going, from a (sort of) financial perspective. 1) It is a good thing I have a medical fund. In addition to getting a bill for a $50 copay for my ultrasound assisted biopsy aread more…
It’s a question that occasionally gets asked around here when someone is retiring. “Will there be cake?” Such a simple question, so much information tied up in an even simpler answer of yes or no. Obviously, when I leave a job, I always want the answer to “will there be cake” to be yes. That was brought home to me even more in this last week as a VP of our company, a man whoread more…
Day Amount Place Category Thursday $95.25 Target House/Medical Friday $24.00 Office Depot House $30.00 Consumer Reports House Saturday $35.75 Red Robin Eating Out Sunday $32.25 Safeway Groceries $180.00 CostCo Groceries Again, not a lot of spending this week. We did spend money on filing supplies (yay for an organized filing cabinet) and Consumer Reports so that we could look at cribs. We have to have one in the house for the home inspection. It is annoyingread more…
It’s a quickie kind of week. We’re in our last push to get the house ready for the foster home inspection and trying to get the basement and spare room/baby’s room done this weekend. In good news, we discovered that it looks like we have hard woods under our carpets. We actually prefer carpet for a lot of things, but I’d been thinking of putting laminate in the baby’s room. If we just have to pullread more…
We try not to be picky about the brand for things where the brand just really doesn’t matter. For example, you don’t need brand name rubbing alcohol or Epsom salts. These things are going to do what they do exactly the same, regardless of the name on the packaging. At the same time, I’ve found that while brand name may not matter, the packaging does- at least for the Epsom salts. We use them in ourread more…
Feeling Left Out Do you ever see some piece of marketing and think to yourself- I am not the target audience for that ad, but I should be the target audience for that product? I accept that I am not going to be the target audience for everything. We watched Zombieland that other night, and since we are not fans of zombie movies, we weren’t the target audience for it, and didn’t find it nearly asread more…
Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $29.00 Olive Garden Allowance Thursday $21.00 Safeway Groceries Friday $21.50 Safeway Groceries $265.50 CostCo Groceries $58.00 Gas Car $0.66 Parking Car Less than $400 in spending this week. I’m not really sure how that happened. Probably because we’ve spent the whole weekend going to graduation parties and not shopping. I did take books to Half Price Books on Monday and got another $40 in cash. C & J took all sortsread more…
