Day 30

Knit Shop — $58.37
Yarn for a new vest! I really need a new vest and really wanted a new knit­ting project. I bought 6 skeins of Brown Sheep Lamb’s Pride bulky in a heathered green called Pine Shad­ows and 1 skein of Brown Sheep Lamb’s Pride worsted weight in a heathered brown called Sable.

I was afraid it might take me a cou­ple of years to find my old pat­tern and my cir­cu­lar nee­dles from the last time I made one of these vests but believe it or not I found them right away! And I got started right away; I’m well on my way to a new vest.

School — $100.00
I bought two $50 gro­cery cards today — one for Kroger’s and one for Vit­a­min Cot­tage. I’ve always wanted to help sup­port the school through the pur­chase of gro­cery cer­tifi­cates — a great way to ben­e­fit the school with­out spend­ing any extra money that I wouldn’t nor­mally spend. The problem’s always been, how­ever, that I buy every­thing with a credit card. Orga­ni­za­tions usu­ally require a check as pay­ment for the cer­tifi­cates. But The Daughter’s school lets me use a credit card. It’s a beau­ti­ful solution.

Toy­ota — $647.78
Front and rear brakes on The Tank. Ugh. About two weeks ago the Brake, VSC Off, and VSC Trac lights all came on. I don’t usu­ally ignore idiot lights but I’ve had this prob­lem before. It’s worst when it’s cold and often the lights go off when the weather warms up. As I said, I don’t like to ignore idiot lights, but since they weren’t always on and our schedule’s been so hec­tic, I put off mak­ing an appoint­ment for ser­vice. Really, the only day we can even con­sider being able to func­tion with only one car is on Mon­day. I’d meant to call last week but for­got so we did a late-night drop-off on Sun­day hop­ing that they’d be able to fit it into the sched­ule. They did. The Tank has new brakes. And we’ll be get­ting an Amer­i­can Express bill later this month. Always something.…

Related posts:

1. Day 231: A No-Spend Day
2. Day 27
3. $$: New Jeans
4. Apple­gate Farms “Rock the Box” Lunch Box Contest
5. Day 86: DIY Auto Repair and Santa’s Helper