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 it an early birthday gift, even though he doesn’t really need to get me one.
We followed our meal plan pretty well. On Thursday, we ended up going out to eat as C didn’t feel like cooking, but we had soup and an appetizer at Olive Garden, so $26 fed 3 of us. Not bad at all.
He then made the pork shoulder on Friday and the roasted red pepper soup on Saturday. While at CostCo we bought a pizza for dinner tonight, but C and I went to a friend’s house for board games and bbq (well, smoked brisket and smoked turkey) and ate quite a bit, so the pizza is sticking around for Monday night.
We did not make a meal plan for this week. Fail, I know. But, even if we had made one before leaving the house, it would have failed as CostCo did not have any of the bone in, skin on chicken thighs we usually buy. We did get ground turkey, so this week will be ground turkey and pork shoulders. Hopefully there will be more chicken next week.
J bought C Deus Ex 3 as a Christmas gift, but gave it to him Thursday after the quarter ended (since he goes back to school only one week after Christmas) and he’s been playing that as well as returning to his old favorite Mountain Blade. That mostly means that he has little desire to go anywhere or spend any money, which works well.
I still need to get out and pick up some Christmas cards and figure out what I’m getting for my secret santa person. I need to mail my father’s birthday gift and order my stepmother’s Christmas gift and figure out what I’m getting my mother- probably a PetsMart gift card, as I know she’ll use it.
Looks like you had a pretty normal week as far as spending is concerned – its nice that you got to hit the spa on someone else's allowance.
It was completely unfair of me, too. On Saturday morning I asked him if he'd pay for me to get a pedicure because my toes were starting to hurt (it's an issue I can deal with, but not as easily as the salon, and I often end up hurting myself in the process) and because I didn't have the allowance funds to cover it and at least I was being honest about that. He agreed, though not without giving me grief.
Anyway, I'm spoiled and I know it. And my toes don't hurt anymore.
I love Flogging Molly (hehe, that sounds funny)! Have fun at the concert!
Concert isn't until March, but I'm really looking forward to it. We've seen them live once before and it was just tons of fun.
I am really trying to get into the habit of planning our meals on a weekly basis, but I struggle with that a lot! It doesn't help that I ask K to help me plan meals, and he is uninterested. Sometimes I just struggle with inspiration!
Our problem here is that I'm the one that wants to plan the meals, for ease of shopping and having a plan means we're more likely to remember to pull something out of the freezer, but C is the one who does the majority of the cooking. So I can't really plan meals without his cooperation, and he doesn't have much interest in planning…
That whole meal thing gets so old. At our house we just do something major on the w/e and eat it all week. It can be boring, but it keeps us from eating out so much.