The Dog Ate My Wallet

The Dog Ate My Wallet

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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…

Date: 20/05/2012 Author: Tags: , , Category: Everyday Finances, Home Improvement, Sunday Evening Post Bookmark: Permalink
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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…

Date: 14/05/2012 Author: Tags: , , Category: Everyday Finances, Home Improvement, Sunday Evening Post, Tracking Bookmark: Permalink
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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…

Date: 07/05/2012 Author: Tags: Category: Everyday Finances, Free Things, Home Improvement, Pet Finances, Sunday Evening Post Bookmark: Permalink
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Spending Discomfort

Going Big and Small: I have no problems with spending large amounts of money on large products. I’m talking in the thousands of dollars for dramatic results- like getting flood remediation work done on our basement. Sure it cost a lot, but our basement hasn’t flooded all winter. We did get a little water seeping up through the floor last night after a mini-typhoon hit our neighborhood, but it’s in a spot where there was noread more…

Date: 26/04/2012 Author: Tags: , , , , Category: Home Improvement, Major Financial Decisions, Organization Bookmark: Permalink
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