The Dog Ate My Wallet

The Dog Ate My Wallet

Personal Finance in a World of Excuses

Category Archive: Sunday Evening Post

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Sunday Evening Post #54

Day Amount Place Category Monday $22.25 Safeway Groceries $5.00 cash Allowance Tuesday $15.00 copay medical Wednesday $15.00 copay medical $66.00 Saffron Eating Out $47.25 gas Car Thursday $12.00 AutoZone Car $10.00 Farmers Market Groceries Friday $14.00 Qdoba Eating Out Saturday $15.00 Clothes Allowance $12.00 Safeway Groceries $45.00 Hair Care Groceries Sunday $75.00 Faire Allowance This weekend was our first visit to the Renaissance Faire. We’ll go again in 2 weeks. We budget for this every yearread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #53

Day Amount Place Category Monday $4.50 Cafeteria Allowance Tuesday $150.00 Vet Pets $15.00 Qdoba Eating Out $7.00 Gas Car $8.00 Car Wash Car $9,700.00 New Car Car $50.00 Old Spaghetti Factory Eating Out Wednesday $38.00 Safeway Groceries Thursday $5.25 Safeway Groceries Friday $32.00 Ren Faire Allowance Saturday $71.00 CostCo Groceries $60.00 Cash Allowance Sunday $43.00 Gas Car We start the first Sunday Evening Post of my second year of doing Sunday Evening Posts by spending everyread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #52

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $13.00 Safeway Allowance $15.00 copay medical $30.00 chinese food Eating Out $90.00 gas car Wednesday $15.00 copay medical $4.00 trader joes Groceries Thursday $7.00 Safeway Groceries Saturday $22.00 Movie Allowance Sunday $38.00 CostCo Groceries $21.00 Red Robin Eating Out We spent money on numerous days this week, though not too much total. We had friends over for jambalaya and games on Friday, which is part of why there were little groceryread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #51

Day Amount Place Category Saturday $6.00 McDonalds Eating Out $200.00 family loan misc Sunday $21.50 Safeway Groceries $164.00 CostCo Groceries $28.00 Office Depot Home $12.50 Target Home $4.50 Lowes Home We tried to spend money earlier in the week. We went out to dinner on Tuesday, but J ended up picking up the check for all of us. On Friday, he brought home pizza and a movie. Saturday morning, J’s parents, who were in town forread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #50

Day Amount Place Category Thursday $15.00 PT Copay Medical $7.00 Qdoba Eating Out Saturday $32.00 Safeway Groceries Sunday $50.00 CostCo Groceries   Okay, so spending this week is a little disingenuous because I kept cash out from the money my brother paid us this month to cover a lot of little things. We went to the Farmers’ Market on Thursday and spent at around $20. Also, on Thursday morning, I spent around $20 on office snacks,read more…

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Sunday Evening Post #49

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…

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Sunday Evening Post #48

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…

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Sunday Evening Post #47

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…

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Sunday Evening Post #46

Day Amount Place Category Monday $5.00 Cafeteria Allowance Tuesday $48.00 Lowes House Wednesday $57.00 Azteca Eating Out $10.00 Dentist Medial Friday $6.00 Cafeteria Allowance Saturday $57.50 CostCo Groceries $20.00 Cash Allowance $130.00 Target House Yes, I bought jeans yesterday. No, it’s not on this list. That’s because before we ended up going to Penny’s (turns out the Levi’s store doesn’t carry jeans for actual fat people), we swing by a place called BuyBacks and with someread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #45

Day Amount Place Category Wednesday $17.50 Safeway Groceries $16.50 Safeway Groceries Saturday $90.00 Gas Car $88.50 CostCo Groceries $16.50 CostCo Allowance $18.00 Office Depot Allowance $35.00 Taste of India Eating Out Talk about feeling in control, we only spent money from the bank account two days this week, and less than $300 total. On Friday C used some of his allowance cash to take a classmate out to dinner, and today I used a gift cardread more…