The Dog Ate My Wallet

The Dog Ate My Wallet

Personal Finance in a World of Excuses

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Sunday Evening Post #33

Day  Amount Place Category Tuesday  $    6.50 Cafeteria Allowance Thursday  $  10.50 McDonalds Eating Out Friday  $  13.50 Subway Eating Out  $  51.00 Gas Car Saturday  $  70.00 Saffron Eating Out Sunday  $  55.00 CostCo Groceries Just over $200 this week. Considering that we got back $230+ from CostCo, returning things we had bought for the MIL, we’re actually at a net positive for the week on this kind of spending. Obviously the big news ofread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #30

Day  Amount Place Category Tuesday  $     3.52 Cafeteria Allowance  $     9.28 Safeway Groceries Wednesday  $   10.00 Dentist Medical  $   23.07 Qdoba Eating Out Friday  $   42.48 Gas Car Saturday  $   60.00 Saffron Eating Out Sunday  $ 107.66 CostCo Groceries  $   23.76 Target House Under $300 this week, which isn’t bad. I now have some file boxes that will help me sort paperwork tomorrow when I spend some quality time working on de-cluttering our office (and perhapsread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #28

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $46.12 Gas Car Thursday $42.20 Seafood City Groceries $19.38 Dinner Eating Out $5.92 Petsmart Pets Saturday ~$45.00 Safeway Groceries Sunday $19.56 Safeway Groceries $30.61 Mud Bay Pets Finally, down to under $200 spent this week. I’m not certain about how much I spend on Saturday because I seem to have lost the receipt and the debit hasn’t posted online yet, but I’m pretty certain I estimated high. It’s been a nice,read more…

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Sunday Evening Post #27

Day Amount Place Category Monday $274.85 Plumber House Tuesday $7.69 Lunch Groceries Wednesday $10.98 Lunch Eating Out $14.24 Papa Murphys Eating Out $111.75 FinCon12 Allowance Thursday $21.79 Gas Car $500.00 Ins Deductible Car Friday $29.60 Old Spaghetti Factory Eating Out $7.64 Half Price Books Allowance $30.43 Target School Saturday $28.01 Target Allowance $35.53 Bed Bath & Beyond House Sunday $5.00 Starbucks Allowance $30 Gas Car 77.18 CostCo Groceries $25.00 Gift Allowance Over $1,200 in spending thisread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #26

Day Amount Place Category Monday $52.00 Pedicures Allowance $32.52 Lunch Allowance $118.95 Shoes Allowance Friday $151.71 CostCo House Saturday $27.02 Safeway Groceries $131.40 Shoes Allowance   We only spent money three days this last week, and yet, we spent over $500. *sigh* I knew Monday was going to be a spend day for me. Every MLK day, I take one of my oldest friends out for her birthday- pedicures and lunch is our tradition. Back inread more…

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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 itread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #19

The Week   Amount Place Category Monday $125.73 Medical through Allowance Friday Eating Out Groceries Saturday $21.88 Target Allowance $20.00 Cash Allowance $99.44 CostCo Groceries $32.00 Gas Car Sunday $5 Starbucks Allowance   Format is a little different this time because I bought C’s Christmas gift this week. Since he sometimes looks at this blog in order to be a supportive husband, I’d rather not publish how much and where he gift came from. But sinceread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #18

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $40.39 PetsMart Pets $7.94 work cafeteria Allowance Wednesday ~$160 Vet Pets $17.81 Safeway Groceries $28.02 Outback Eating Out Friday $30.31 Safeway Allowance Saturday $47.50 Gas Car   As expected, not a whole lot of spending this week- just over $330, with almost half of that coming from the vets. On Wednesday, we got Junebug’s stitches out and our vet, who is flummoxed by the fact that she’s not better yet recommendedread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #17

Day Amount Place Category Monday $50.05 Gas Car Wednesday $111.32 Safeway Groceries $91.08 CostCo Groceries $37.10 Target Allowance Friday $15.00 Safeway Chinese Eating Out Saturday $113.84 Home Depot House $33.41 Tukwila Trading Groceries $17.63 Amazon House Sunday ~$3.50 McDonalds Allowance ~$2.50 Starbucks Allowance $50.33 Target Allowance   Spending this week ran just under $520 On Wednesday night, C said to me, “We’re going to destroy your blogging reputation.” I explained that no, it was  the weekread more…

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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), soread more…