This has been an odd weekend for shopping. Friday Dinner: $7.84 ($2.61/person) Chicken Fingers & Jojos from Safeway Activities: Dog Park Saturday Breakfast: Cereal Lunch: $59.76 (4 people, also served as dinner) Old Spaghetti Factory Shopping: Borders (going out of business sale) $21.67 Game Stop (pre-order SW:TOR) $5 Activities: The new Conan movie for 4 people $24 Board Games Pinochle On Friday one of our best friends dropped off 2 twin XL memory foam toppers forread more…

This weekend is going to look spendy, but it was in the budget. The husband spent a week working a convention for a friend’s company. While he wasn’t paid for it, he was given a per diem of $427. He only spent $160. That gave us extra money to spend at the Renaissance Faire this weekend. And considering the Faire is usually serves as our anniversary “gift” to ourselves, it was nice to have the freedomread more…

This weekend, the husband was out of town working a convention with a friend of ours. However, in his place, I had my cousin (who has been with us for the whole summer), her best friend, and one of her friends from college. I could make the kids pay for themselves, but that goes against my nature. I remember being in college and the niceness of home cooked meals. So, I took responsibility for feeding allread more…

Friday: Spending: $0 Dinner: Frozen raviolis ($? – these have been in our freezer for a long time) Activities: Dog park, Rock Band, A-Team (Netflix) Saturday: Spending: ~$187 CostCo $69.99 $28 of that was no new jeans for my husband. This will come out of his allowance. Otherwise:       $14.08 (-$4 coupon) 2 boxes of cereal                         $1.39 bananas                         $4.91 2 gallons milk                         $9.99 2 containers dishwasher detergent                         $10.99 dog biscuits Gas: underread more…

Since I need to grow readership for the Yakezie Challenge, I’m going to add a Sunday evening blog post in to the rotation. We do most of our spending over the weekend, so the Sunday evening post (sounds like a newspaper, doesn’t it) will focus on what we have spent from Friday after I get off work through Sunday. This will be where I post what we spent on groceries, but also if we go outread more…