Sunday Evening Post #9
I feel like if I try and follow my normal Sunday EveningPost format it will be disingenuous. On Friday we spent $1.50. On Saturday, wedidn’t spend any money, and today we spent under $11. So it would seem like alow spend weekend, and technically it was, but…
My father arrived on Tuesday. We went out to dinner thatnight, despite not really having the room in our eating out budget. OnWednesday, we spent over $50 at various home stores on parts to fix some of thebad wiring in our house. We also got new auto insurance on Wednesday (I loveour agent, he comes by the house to do all of our paperwork) and paid our 6month premium then. Thursday saw more trips to the home stores and the purchaseof 6 new light fixtures.
Friday ended up being so inexpensive only because my fatherpaid for our wings and drinks at the pub we went to hear one of our favoritelocal bands play. And on Saturday he took us out to dinner. This morning hepaid for brunch when we met up with some of our friends (who he really likes).
In addition, on Friday, I had intended to renew one of ourdog’s licenses and pay for the hubby’s school for next quarter. I forgot aboutthose things, so they’ll happen this week.
We’ll also have to pay to smog and register our second car, whichhasn’t been insured/registered/driven in over a year. It also has a flat tire,so we’ll need to swing by Les Schwab and get that fixed. Hopefully we won’t getpulled over while we’re getting it to the smog station as we can’t register ituntil it’s smogged. I have reviewed the state laws though, so if we do, it willbe a “fix it” ticket. But we’ll have to show up in court.
Still, I can’t complain about the money we spent as the plug-insin the family room in the basement now work, and we have pretty new lightfixtures (that actually give adequate light) in there. We have 2 newreceptacles in the garage, meaning that everything isn’t plugged in through anextension cord, and we added a second light on the corner of our stairwell, sonow there’s light all the way up and down our stairs. And the big thing, theswitch in our kitchen has been fixed so we no longer have to jiggle it to getthe kitchen light turned on.
As the hubby told my dad, if we’d had a professional come inand tell us it would cost $2,000 to fix all this, we would have believed him.My father and hubby got it all done for less that $150 in supplies. Not a baddeal.
It is the frugal thing to do , isn't it? 🙂
Not only frugal, but a learning experience. My father was able to teach hubby enough that we'll know in the future what we can do and what we need professionals for.
Aren't handy dads wonderful?I am always calling mine. He fixes/builds computers. That's always handy/