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), so on Friday, they took a biopsy of her lymph nodes, sent blood work off for a complete tic panel, and gave us more doggie drugs. We will get results of the biopsy on Tuesday.
None of that comes out of the regular budget. It all comes out of savings, because this is exactly why we have savings. However, for those who are counting, this does bring us up to over $1,300 in the last month trying to get this infection taken care of, and who knows what the final total will end up being.
So in that sense, out of our budget, we only spent a little over $80 this week (and $18.50 of that is specifically for dog treats that make giving June her pill easier).
Next weekend will be different. We will be doing all of our pre-Thanksgiving shopping, and that may or may not include buying a turkey deep fryer or a new roasting pan. (If we buy the roasting pan, that will come out of my allowance as C’s Christmas gift. If we buy the turkey fryer, half will be his Christmas gift and the other half will come out of his allowance.)
Other than dealing with June (and the Cone of Shame), it’s been a quiet weekend. On Saturday I took the light rail into downtown and met friends at a chocolate café, then had dinner and a movie at one of their houses. (The movie, Hobson’s Choice, deserves it’s own personal finance post.) Sunday I took Larry to the dog park so he could get some running in and then went and filled up the VW.
Not a super exciting week, but that’s exactly what I’ve been looking for.
EDITED TO ADD: Okay, there is one super exciting thing to happen this week- I broke the 200k mark in my Alexa ranking (for those who don’t know, that’s a milestone for becoming a full member of Yaekzie, vs just being a challenger). In fact, as of today, my ranking is just over 100k! Thank you to my readers, and especially to my fellow Yaezie group team members. Your support means everything!
EDITED TO ADD: I’m a total space cadet who can’t read numbers. I was just over 1 MILLION, not 100k.
That's a ton of money for the vet. I really hope that everything works out. I have two older cats, they both require special diets and are on medication, so their monthly care totals are pretty high compared to normal cats, but their 'sickness' bills have always been relatively low. I'm keeping my fingers crossed it stays that way!
I always go back to the fact that we paid over $3,500 for a dog that didn't get to come home. I'll pay more than that to keep them. Our Beagle is only 2.5 years old. We've had her for 2 years this month, and besides shots, this is the only health issue she's had. Hopefully we'll get it resolved here shortly.
And while $1,300 is a lot, if we'd stayed with our old vet, I have no doubt that we'd be at the $2k point by now.
Congrats on the 200k! I love the "cone of shame" comment. That's horrible. I hope everything turns out okay.
I cried through most of the movie "Up", and fell in love with both "Squirrel!" and "the cone of shame", so even though Miss Junebug has done nothing wrong (other than not get better), we are using that phrase.