The Dog Ate My Wallet

The Dog Ate My Wallet

Personal Finance in a World of Excuses

Tag Archive: weekly spending

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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 #59

Day Amount Place Category Monday $38.00 FinCon Allowance $2,233.00 Car Service Car $45.50 CostCo Groceries $4.75 Safeway Groceries Tuesday $100.00 Charity Misc Wednesday $25.00 FinCon Allowance Thursday $33.45 Outback Eating Out $6.50 Half Price Books Allowance Saturday $71.00 CostCo Groceries Well, if you ignore the ridiculous amount we spent on the 80k miles service on our car, spending this week wasn’t bad at all. And we do plan for the car costs. We knew what thisread 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…

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Sunday Evening Post #55

Day Amount Place Category Thursday $10.00 Farmers Market Groceries Friday $8.00 car wash car $85.00 CostCo Groceries $15.00 Safeway Groceries Saturday $5.00 Target House $45.00 Office Depot House $5.00 Safeway Groceries $25.00 text books School Sunday $15.00 Home Depot House $32.00 Old Spaghetti Factory Eating Out Tuesday is the home inspection for the foster license/to complete the home study process for adoption. This weekend has been pretty much fully taken up with getting the house ready.read more…

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Sunday Evening Post #50

Day Amount Place Category Thursday $15.00 PT Copay Medical $7.00 Qdoba Eating Out Saturday $32.00 Safeway Groceries Sunday $50.00 CostCo Groceries   Okay, so spending this week is a little disingenuous because I kept cash out from the money my brother paid us this month to cover a lot of little things. We went to the Farmers’ Market on Thursday and spent at around $20. Also, on Thursday morning, I spent around $20 on office snacks,read more…

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Sunday Evening Post #49

Day Amount Place Category Monday $40.00 Cash Allowance Tuesday $40.00 Urgent Care/RX Medical $11.00 Pizza Groceries Wednesday $45.00 C’s Birthday Eating Out Thursday $15.00 PT Medical Friday $50.00 Gas Car Saturday $123.00 CostCo Groceries $42.00 Safeway Groceries Sunday $15.00 Safeway Groceries $50.00 Gas Car Spent every day this week, partly because of my shoulder injury and C’s birthday. We filled both cars up this weekend. Also, Safeway is having a buy 2 get 3 free saleread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #48

Day Amount Place Category Thursday $95.25 Target House/Medical Friday $24.00 Office Depot House $30.00 Consumer Reports House Saturday $35.75 Red Robin Eating Out Sunday $32.25 Safeway Groceries $180.00 CostCo Groceries Again, not a lot of spending this week. We did spend money on filing supplies (yay for an organized filing cabinet) and Consumer Reports so that we could look at cribs. We have to have one in the house for the home inspection. It is annoyingread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #47

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $29.00 Olive Garden Allowance Thursday $21.00 Safeway Groceries Friday $21.50 Safeway Groceries $265.50 CostCo Groceries $58.00 Gas Car $0.66 Parking Car Less than $400 in spending this week. I’m not really sure how that happened. Probably because we’ve spent the whole weekend going to graduation parties and not shopping. I did take books to Half Price Books on Monday and got another $40 in cash. C & J took all sortsread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #44: Memorial Day Weekend

Day Amount Place Category Wednesday $14.50 Safeway Groceries Thrusday $28.00 Rx Dog Food Pets Friday $45.00 Gas Car Saturday $212.25 CostCo Groceries $94.50 Safeway Groceries It was a good week and good weekend. We had one of C’s college friends over for a ribs on Sunday, and that was the extent of our excitement. Oh- and my hockey team, the New Jersey Devils, beat the New York Rangers in the Eastern Conference series and will startread more…