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 #44: Memorial Day Weekend

Day Amount Place Category Wednesday $14.50 Safeway Groceries Thrusday $28.00 Rx Dog Food Pets Friday $45.00 Gas Car Saturday $212.25 CostCo Groceries $94.50 Safeway Groceries It was a good week and good weekend. We had one of C’s college friends over for a ribs on Sunday, and that was the extent of our excitement. Oh- and my hockey team, the New Jersey Devils, beat the New York Rangers in the Eastern Conference series and will startread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #43

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $66.00 Diablo 3 Allowance Wednesday $192.00 Amazon.com House Friday $35.00 outback Eating Out Saturday $15.00 mattress recycle House $30.50 buffalo wild wings Eating Out $54.00 Gas Car Sunday $53.00 Gas Car $63.00 Target House $44.00 Lowes House I actually felt really in control this week. I didn’t spend any money Monday-Thursday. C bought Diablo 3, but that was planned, and he’s the one that placed our Amazon order on Wednesday. Theread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #42- I spent the weekend at the beach

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $3.28 Safeway Groceries Wednesday $4.23 Cafeteria Allowance Friday $163.36 CostCo Groceries   $5.90 Post Office MIL   $62.08 Safeway Groceries Saturday $7.98 IGA Groceries Sunday $5.00 Internet Allowance   $61.00 Lowes House Felt much more in control this week. There were two days where we didn’t spend any money at all. Tuesday and Wednesday were small amounts (though one was lunch out for me). We also got everything mailed off toread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #41 (Monday Morning Edition)

Day Amount Place Category Monday $48.22 Gas Car Tuesday $25.72 Rx Dogfood Pets   $5.46 Jack in the Box Allowance Wednesday $24.69 Red Robin Eating Out Thursday $23.07 Safeway Groceries   $75.97 CostCo Groceries   $193.76 Kinnect Allowance   $16.41 Barnes & Noble Allowance Friday $36.00 Larry- shots Pets   $3,000.00 Loan to brother Misc Saturday $31.80 Fred Meyer House   $7.98 Trader Joes Groceries   $6.00 Key Arena Allowance   $35.00 Thai food Eating Outread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #40

Day Amount Place Category Monday $14.73 Safeway Groceries $26.00 Nails Allowance Wednesday $10.00 Admin Day Allowance $67.00 Admin Day Allowance $16.83 Safeway Groceries Friday $105.00 Legal Fee MIL $112.00 Buca di Beppo Eating Out $7.81 Cafeteria Allowance $59.00 Gas Car Saturday $111.00 CostCo Groceries $28.00 Home Depot House Sunday $13.00 Target Allowance $8.00 PetsMart Pets So while we didn’t spend as much this week as we did last week, it was not a low spending week.read more…

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Sunday Evening Post #39

Day Amount Place Category Monday $12.93 Subway Eating Out Wednesday $252.00 Court Fees MIL $35.88 Luisa’s Eating Out Saturday $725.00 Lowes House $25.00 Qdoba House Sunday $11.00 Starbucks Allowance $60.00 Home Depot House I have very little memory of this week. Monday I was home sick. Wednesday was probate and then running around to set up the estate account, then the birthday dinner for J. Friday C got us free tickets to the Tacoma Ballet throughread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #38

Day Amount Place Category Monday $23.25 Safeway Groceries $7.00 Cigarettes Allowance Wednesday $125.31 Poppy Eating Out $105.30 Concert Allowance Thursday $11.00 Subway Eating Out Friday $172.10 CostCo Groceries $8.75 Half Price Books School Saturday $14.00 Remedy Tea Allowance $31.00 Gas Car Sunday $67.53 Lowes House $21.78 PetCo Pets Wednesday we hit one of the restaurants for Seattle Restaurant week. The total represents paying for J, as well, and he’ll pay us back. We got called onread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #37

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $54.00 Gas Car $7.00 Cafeteria Allowance Wednesday $23.00 Doctor Medical $3.00 McDs Allowance Thursday $16.50 Safeway Groceries $2,329.00 Tuition School Friday $7.00 Cafeteria Allowance $70.00 NorWesCon Allowance Saturday $7.50 Safeway Groceries $120.00 Cremation Urn MIL Sunday $3.50 Starbucks Allowance $41.50 Gas Car High spending week because of paying C’s tuition. It still makes me feel rich to be able to cash flow that. I also finally remembered to purchase the cremationread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #36

Day Amount Place Category Monday $60.00 Death Certificates MIL Wednesday $28.34 PetsMart Pets Friday $4.59 Safeway Groceries $192.92 CostCo Groceries $7.25 Safeway Groceries Saturday $31.61 Safeway Groceries It was a mostly quiet week. On Monday, I went into work for just a couple of hours and then took the rest of the day off. We went to the county and got 3 copies of the death certificate, so that we could do things like file liferead more…

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Sunday Evening Post #35

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $113.00 CostCo House Wednesday $7.00 Cafeteria Allowance Friday $47.00 Safeway Groceries $35.00 Outback Eating Out Sunday $27.00 Starbucks Allowance + $75.00 Gas Car If felt like we spent more this week than we actually did. Monday, we had our first home study interview. That went well, I think. I also discovered on Monday that I had apparently overheated our paper shredder and broken it. So Tuesday, off I went to CostCoread more…