The Dog Ate My Wallet

The Dog Ate My Wallet

Personal Finance in a World of Excuses

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Sunday Evening Post #75

Day Amount Place Category Monday $4.00 safeway groceries Tuesday $8.00 lunch allowance $140.25 christmas shopping allowance Wednesday $19.37 CostCo groceries $6.50 parking car $19.50 tax & tip eating out Thursday $55.00 christmas gifts allowance Friday $77.00 saffron eating out Saturday $39.25 christmas gifts allowance $16.25 trading post groceries $8.00 trader joes groceries $23.75 CostCo groceries Sunday $39.50 safeway groceries It was a busy week. Besides shopping for Christmas at home, I had the Christmas party atread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #73

Day Amount Place Category Wednesday $49.25 Old Spaghetti Factory Eating Out Thursday $142.75 Condo Water Heater Rental $104.00 CostCo Groceries Friday $83.25 Flogging Molly Allowance Sunday $45.75 Safeway Groceries It has not been an exciting week, and that’s fine with me. At work, we’re all adapting to our new world and just moving along. At home, we’re enjoying some quiet time before my birthday/the end of the world and Christmas. We don’t really do Christmas gifts,read more…

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Sunday Evening Post #71

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $80.75 CostCo Groceries $12.00 Safeway Groceries Wednesday $23.00 Safeway Groceries $15.75 Qdoba Eating Out Saturday $61.00 Gas Car It was a quiet week, mostly because I was sick and didn’t have the energy to do much this week. Thanksgiving at our house on Thursday went quite well, and Saturkeyday at my friend EB’s house was a lot of fun. C made a creole cornbread stuffing for that (because I volunteered usread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #69

Day Amount Place Category Thursday $28.00 CostCo groceries Friday $100.00 Clothes allowance $46.00 shoes allowance $5.50 safeway groceries Saturday $96.00 safeway groceries $21.00 supercuts allowance Over half of what we spent this week, I spent on a new blazer, earrings, and boots. Then I got my hair cut (happens about once every 6 months). And would you believe, I’ll spend more on this coming Thursday for a manicure. Yes, it’s a lot of money for “oneread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #67 (Monday Evening Edition)

Day Amount Place Category Monday $24.00 movie allowance Tuesday $12.00 petsmart pets Friday $10.00 safeway groceries $46.00 gas car Saturday $33.50 trader joe’s groceries $16.50 WoW allowance Sunday $5.50 Left4Dead2 allowance So having a 4 day weekend meant that I forgot about this post last night, and then almost forgot about it tonight because today is Monday. As the week went, there was not a whole lot of spending, which is good. My weekend has beenread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #65

Day Amount Place Category Monday $23.00 safeway groceries Tuesday $54.75 steam allowance Wednesday $25.00 SODA pets Thursday $32.25 olive garden eating out Saturday $15.00 contest entry allowance Not a whole lot of spending this week. This is our first weekend getting back to the every other week CostCo run, and while there are things we’re low on, we’re definitely fine not having gone. I will be going to Safeway every Monday for the little things thatread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #64

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $19.81 safeway Groceries Wednesday $52.00 safeway Groceries Friday $39.50 costco Groceries So I have to say, I was happily surprised when putting together this week’s spending report. I felt like we were spending more because I was at the grocery store last Sunday, and again on Tuesday and Wednesday, but aside from grocery shopping, we didn’t actually spend any money this week. The trip Wednesday was also not because we forgotread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #61

Day Amount Place Category Monday $31.75 Mud Bay Pets $53.75 Safeway Groceries $90.00 CostCo Groceries Tuesday $348.50 VW Service Car Thursday $30.00 Medical Copays Medical $14.75 Safeway Groceries Friday $15.00 Medical Copays Medical $31.50 Pet License Pets Saturday $16.50 WoW Allowance $69.00 Shoes Allowance $96.75 CostCo Groceries $17.50 Safeway Groceries It has been a crazy week here. I was very glad to have Monday off to recover from FinCon12 and get some of our needed shoppingread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #58

Day Amount Place Category Monday $52.00 CostCo Groceries Tuesday $212.50 Vet Pets $30.50 Half Price Books Allowance Wednesday $13.00 Papa Murphys Groceries Saturday $174.75 CostCo Groceries $154.00 Concert Tickets Allowance Sunday $4.00 Starbucks Allowance $34.00 Gas Car With the exception of the concert tickets, spending this week was really reasonable. Next week’s will be out of whack because of getting the car serviced, but for now, things look good. For those of you who like toread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #56

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $10.00 PetsMart Dogs Friday $15.00 Copay Medical $820.00 Car Service Car $97.00 Gas Car $46.50 Mojitos Eating Out Saturday $15.00 Target Allowance $50.00 CostCo Allowance Sunday $60.00 Faire Allowance $20.00 Fred Meyer Groceries The home inspection went well. We are now in phase 1 of “sit and wait”- which is the finishing up paperwork phase. It feels good. We still do need to get our birth parent booklet printed up, thoughread more…