Friday:

Spending: $0

Dinner: Frozen raviolis ($? – these have been in our freezer for a long time)

Activities: Dog park, Rock Band, A-Team (Netflix)

Saturday:

Spending: ~$187

CostCo $69.99

$28 of that was no new jeans for my husband. This will come out of his allowance.

Otherwise:       $14.08 (-$4 coupon) 2 boxes of cereal

                        $1.39 bananas

                        $4.91 2 gallons milk

                        $9.99 2 containers dishwasher detergent

                        $10.99 dog biscuits

Gas: under $60 (~$4.50/gallon B99)

Comic: $3 (comes out of my allowance)

New phone: $18 (comes out of my allowance)

Lunch/Dinner: Ate at our favorite restaurant: $36 (including tip). This is a little expensive, but its our favorite place, and it served for lunch and dinner on Saturday and again for lunch on Sunday, which means it covered 6 meals, making it $6/serving. That’s not too bad. And if you want to know, it was mango curry with chicken, served with a plain naan and bottomless cups of hot chai. Plus, we got complementary potato latkes as an appetizer and rice pudding for desert. (We almost always get a comped desert, and while getting the appetizer free doesn’t happen all the time, it’s not rare.)

Activities: Dog park, Rock Band

Sunday:

Spending: $14 Starbucks

Lunch: left-overs

Dinner: chicken and Spanish rice

Activities: Critique group (@Starbucks), Rock Band, Dog park, business consult for friend (@Starbucks). The husband also did some basic grocery shopping for his mom while I was at the business consult.

Overall, the spending wasn’t too bad. My husband normally would get gas on a weekday, but didn’t have a chance, so that’s money that should have been spent on Thursday.

The jeans were a necessity for a trade show he’s working next weekend. None of his current pairs were nice enough. He’ll end up reimbursed, unless he really spends the $60/day on food that they’re paying for.

We’d meant to treat ourselves to our favorite restaurant a week ago to celebrate him finishing his 5 week intensive Linear Algebra summer course, but didn’t have time until this week.

I’ll be posting about the phone later this week.

I will also be doing some regular grocery shopping during the week which I normally don’t do, but next week is kind of funky, plan wise, so it’s what will happen.