The Dog Ate My Wallet

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Category Archive: Sunday Evening Post

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Sunday Evening Post #76

Day Amount Place Category Monday $10.00 safeway groceries $14.25 papa murphys groceries $51.25 lowes house $39.25 christmas allowance Thursday $57.00 writing allowance Friday $123.25 CostCo groceries Saturday $22.25 Red Robin eating out I am the queen of last minute Christmas shopping. I just am. Otherwise, this was a fairly quiet week for spending. I did spend money on Thursday on my writing goals, but that’s something I feel good about. Saturday, I wanted C to talkread more…

Date: 30/12/2012 Author: Category: Sunday Evening Post Bookmark: Permalink
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Sunday Evening Post #75

Day Amount Place Category Monday $4.00 safeway groceries Tuesday $8.00 lunch allowance $140.25 christmas shopping allowance Wednesday $19.37 CostCo groceries $6.50 parking car $19.50 tax & tip eating out Thursday $55.00 christmas gifts allowance Friday $77.00 saffron eating out Saturday $39.25 christmas gifts allowance $16.25 trading post groceries $8.00 trader joes groceries $23.75 CostCo groceries Sunday $39.50 safeway groceries It was a busy week. Besides shopping for Christmas at home, I had the Christmas party atread more…

Date: 23/12/2012 Author: Tags: , , Category: Sunday Evening Post Bookmark: Permalink
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Sunday Evening Post #74

Day Amount Place Category Monday $9.00 dominoes allowance Wednesday $6.00 parking car Thursday $56.25 CostCo groceries $21.75 Trader Joes groceries $50.25 Fred Meyer groceries Friday $8.00 Safeway groceries Saturday $10.75 Movie allowance Sunday $40.00 Gas car Wednesday, we went and saw the King Tut exhibit. Our Living Social deal for it had been expensive, but for some reason, I hadn’t thought that much about it. Well, the reason it was so expensive was that it cameread more…

Date: 16/12/2012 Author: Tags: , Category: Sunday Evening Post Bookmark: Permalink
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Sunday Evening Post #73

Day Amount Place Category Wednesday $49.25 Old Spaghetti Factory Eating Out Thursday $142.75 Condo Water Heater Rental $104.00 CostCo Groceries Friday $83.25 Flogging Molly Allowance Sunday $45.75 Safeway Groceries It has not been an exciting week, and that’s fine with me. At work, we’re all adapting to our new world and just moving along. At home, we’re enjoying some quiet time before my birthday/the end of the world and Christmas. We don’t really do Christmas gifts,read more…

Date: 09/12/2012 Author: Tags: , , Category: Sunday Evening Post Bookmark: Permalink
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Sunday Evening Post #72

Day Amount Place Category Thursday $75.00 King Tut Allowance $35.00 Safeway Groceries Friday $6.00 Parking Car $30.00 Pub Eating Out Sunday $46.25 Gas Car Less than $200 spent this week. I won’t complain about that. Actually, that’s a lie, on Friday, I spent almost $150 on bagels and pastries for my boss’s and admin’s last day. But my boss insisted I expense it to the company and refused to leave until he’d approved my expense report.read more…

Date: 02/12/2012 Author: Category: Sunday Evening Post Bookmark: Permalink
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Sunday Evening Post #71

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $80.75 CostCo Groceries $12.00 Safeway Groceries Wednesday $23.00 Safeway Groceries $15.75 Qdoba Eating Out Saturday $61.00 Gas Car It was a quiet week, mostly because I was sick and didn’t have the energy to do much this week. Thanksgiving at our house on Thursday went quite well, and Saturkeyday at my friend EB’s house was a lot of fun. C made a creole cornbread stuffing for that (because I volunteered usread more…

Date: 25/11/2012 Author: Tags: , , Category: Sunday Evening Post Bookmark: Permalink
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Sunday Evening Post #70

Day Amount Place Category Wednesday $43.00 nails allowance Friday $10.50 grapes allowance Sunday $33.00 trader joe’s groceries $620.00 opera allowance We actually spent more than this this week, except that we got our annual cash back check from CostCo and that more than covered our CostCo run on Thursday, and we paid cash for our outing on Friday, which means it had already been counted in the budget. You may notice that despite Thursday’s post, weread more…

Date: 18/11/2012 Author: Category: Sunday Evening Post Bookmark: Permalink
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Sunday Evening Post #69

Day Amount Place Category Thursday $28.00 CostCo groceries Friday $100.00 Clothes allowance $46.00 shoes allowance $5.50 safeway groceries Saturday $96.00 safeway groceries $21.00 supercuts allowance Over half of what we spent this week, I spent on a new blazer, earrings, and boots. Then I got my hair cut (happens about once every 6 months). And would you believe, I’ll spend more on this coming Thursday for a manicure. Yes, it’s a lot of money for “oneread more…

Date: 11/11/2012 Author: Tags: , , , , Category: Sunday Evening Post Bookmark: Permalink
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Sunday Evening Post #68

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $31.50 OSF eating out Wednesday $10.00 Safeway groceries Friday $43.50 Trader Joe’s groceries $102.00 CostCo groceries $10.25 Tukwila Trading Post groceries Saturday $89.50 Vet pets $6.50 ear plugs misc Sunday $38.75 gas car $80.00 Living Social deal eating out $32.75 Office Depot allowance It was a pretty good week- mostly quiet at work. I did dress up for Halloween- wore a Ren Faire dress my step-mother made me 8 years agoread more…

Date: 04/11/2012 Author: Category: Sunday Evening Post Bookmark: Permalink
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Sunday Evening Post #67 (Monday Evening Edition)

Day Amount Place Category Monday $24.00 movie allowance Tuesday $12.00 petsmart pets Friday $10.00 safeway groceries $46.00 gas car Saturday $33.50 trader joe’s groceries $16.50 WoW allowance Sunday $5.50 Left4Dead2 allowance So having a 4 day weekend meant that I forgot about this post last night, and then almost forgot about it tonight because today is Monday. As the week went, there was not a whole lot of spending, which is good. My weekend has beenread more…

Date: 29/10/2012 Author: Tags: , , Category: Sunday Evening Post Bookmark: Permalink
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