New Sunday Evening Post
Since I need to grow readership for the Yakezie Challenge, I’m going to add a Sunday evening blog post in to the rotation.
We do most of our spending over the weekend, so the Sunday evening post (sounds like a newspaper, doesn’t it) will focus on what we have spent from Friday after I get off work through Sunday. This will be where I post what we spent on groceries, but also if we go out for a meal or some form of entertainment.
As a note, we also do the grocery shopping for my MIL. Sometimes, if we’re only picking up one or two things for her at a store, we just pay for it. If we’re picking up just one or two things for us from a store where we’re mostly buying her items, she pays for them. I will do my best to account for the cost of items she pays for that we use in our cooking, but I won’t always have that information.
Friday
Shopping:
CostCo: $65.43 – all groceries and only 2 impulse buys- hummus (for my cousin) 5.99 and chicken sausage for 8.99. DH often makes his own sausage using ground turkey. For the times when he would do that, he’ll be able to use this sausage instead.
Music Downloads for Rock Band 3: $44.99
Dinner:
Nachos $2.78 total ($0.93/person)
½ package ground turkey ($1.91)
1/16 of a block of cheese ($0.87)
Tortilla chips (free – they were stale and otherwise would have been thrown out)
Olives & jalenpenos (bought by the cousin in exchange for her hummus)
Activities:
Played Rock Band 3
Watched Labyrinth on DVD (we own it)
Saturday
Breakfast: Cereal
Lunch: Nachos (new batch – but having this plan in advance prevented us from eating at the food court in the mall after the movie)
Dinner: Sausage and Bell Pepper over Penne (all of these were things we’d bought at least a week ago, so I don’t have the costs)
Activities:
Harry Potter 7b for 3 people: $18
Rock Band 3
Watched Secret of NIMH (Netflix download)
Sunday
Shopping: Groceries for the MIL only
Breakfast: Waffles w/ whipped cream (the waffles were homemade, the whipped cream was out of a can. I don’t have costs as the waffles are made out of staples and the whipped cream has been in the fridge for over a month)
Lunch: Red Robin (MIL paid)
Dinner: Snacks (lunch was eaten at 4pm)
Activities:
Rock Band 3
Phone shopping (you don’t want to know)
Board games
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