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 #24

Day Amount Place Category Monday $2.00 Starbucks Allowance $36.00 Half Price Books Allowance Tuesday $16.00 Qdoba Eating Out $5.00 Parking Car Thursday $10.00 Dentist Medical Friday $23.00 Zoopa Eating Out $32.00 Hockey Tickets Allowance $5.50 Office Depot Allowance Saturday $4.00 Parking Car $52.00 Gas Car $5.00 Fiction in 50 Allowance     Spending this week ran about $190, without us doing our grocery shopping. I actually consider this week’s spending to be on the win side-read more…

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Sunday Evening Post: New Year Edition

Day Amount Place Category Monday $50.50 Gas Car Tuesday $8.00 Lunch Allowance $12.00 Safeway Groceries Saturday $89.00 CostCo Groceries $1.00 Safeway Groceries $5.00 Parking Car     Only about $165 in spending this week, and it would have been less if I had remembered to bring our CostCo gift cards to CostCo. Oh well, they’ll keep the spending down another week. There might still be a parking expense this evening.   The New Year is notread more…

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Sunday Evening Post: Christmas Edition

Our Christmas roast, cooked for just under 2 hours, in the “fryer” we bought for Thanksgiving. I’m pretty sure at two meals it’s been worth the $100 we spent on it.   We had a wonderful day with friends, our dogs, and the MythBusters marathon. We still need to put away the roast, ham, and the deserts, and there’s kitchen cleaning to do, but overall, it was a wonderful, quiet Christmas, spent in fabulous company. Iread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #21

Day Amount Place Category Monday $43.44 Gas Car Tuesday $5.00 Fiction in 50 Allowance Wednesday $21.70 Chinese Eating Out Thursday $80.00 Christmas Gifts Allowance Friday $30.00 Thai Eating Out $25.00 Christmas Gifts Allowance Sunday $34.27 Fred Meyer Groceries $15.00 Christmas Gifts Allowance   About $255 in spending this week, and that includes $75 in Christmas gifts for my family and $25 in gifts for those who will be at our house on Christmas day. My familyread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #20

Day Amount Place Category Monday $10.00 McDonalds Allowance Wednesday $75.00 Flogging Molly Allowance Thursday $26.00 Olive Garden Eating Out Saturday $135.00 CostCo Groceries $28 Pedicure Allowance Sunday $35.50 Gas Car   Just over $300 in spending this week. And to make it even better, the Flogging Molly tickets (concert is in March) were actually paid for by the check my grandfather sent for Christmas. C paid for my pedicure out of his allowance. We’ll call itread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #19

The Week   Amount Place Category Monday $125.73 Medical through Allowance Friday Eating Out Groceries Saturday $21.88 Target Allowance $20.00 Cash Allowance $99.44 CostCo Groceries $32.00 Gas Car Sunday $5 Starbucks Allowance   Format is a little different this time because I bought C’s Christmas gift this week. Since he sometimes looks at this blog in order to be a supportive husband, I’d rather not publish how much and where he gift came from. But sinceread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #18

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $40.39 PetsMart Pets $7.94 work cafeteria Allowance Wednesday ~$160 Vet Pets $17.81 Safeway Groceries $28.02 Outback Eating Out Friday $30.31 Safeway Allowance Saturday $47.50 Gas Car   As expected, not a whole lot of spending this week- just over $330, with almost half of that coming from the vets. On Wednesday, we got Junebug’s stitches out and our vet, who is flummoxed by the fact that she’s not better yet recommendedread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #17

Day Amount Place Category Monday $50.05 Gas Car Wednesday $111.32 Safeway Groceries $91.08 CostCo Groceries $37.10 Target Allowance Friday $15.00 Safeway Chinese Eating Out Saturday $113.84 Home Depot House $33.41 Tukwila Trading Groceries $17.63 Amazon House Sunday ~$3.50 McDonalds Allowance ~$2.50 Starbucks Allowance $50.33 Target Allowance   Spending this week ran just under $520 On Wednesday night, C said to me, “We’re going to destroy your blogging reputation.” I explained that no, it was  the weekread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #16

Day Amount Place Category Friday $725.69 Vet Pets Saturday $18.50 PetsMart Pets $5.34 Safeway Groceries ~$8.00 Chocolati Allowance Sunday ~$50.00 Gas Car   A lot depends on how you do the math this week. We spent over $800, but the majority of that was for a biopsy for the Junebug. She’s had an infection for over a month, and the antibiotics do not seem to be working (at least not as well as they should), soread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #15

If you did the math last Sunday, we spent almost $700 that last week in October. This week, we did much better, only spending about $235. Still, I’d like a week where we spent even less…   Day                 Amount           Place                            Category Monday           26.01               Vet                              Pets   Tuesday           $10.00             Dentist Copay             Medical Tuesday           $18.93             Safeway (snacks)        Allowance   Friday              $11.94             PetCo                          Petsread more…