Monthly Archives: October 2007

Day 57

By Suburban Wife | Published: October 28, 2007
Church — $15.00 Weekly offering. Ein­stein Bagels — $17.10 I knew The Son’s Super­size Me–induced soda mora­to­rium would be short lived After all, he’s 13 and skinny as a bean pole. It doesn’t bother me any since I con­sider it my job to limit his soda intake. We ordered our usual Dozen Bucket Deal (13 bagels [...]
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Day 56

By Suburban Wife | Published: October 27, 2007
Kroger — $70.48 This should be the last big gro­cery trip of the month. I for­got to pick up plas­tic wrap (don’t you just hate it when you for­get the same item 4 or 5 times in a row?). After this trip, I still have $22.15 left on my last Kroger gro­cery card. gal­lon of Hori­zon 2% milk [...]
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Black Sheep PF Blogger

By Suburban Wife | Published: October 27, 2007
Since start­ing this blog almost 2 months ago, I’ve spent quite a bit of time read­ing other Per­sonal Finance blogs. It’s been fun; it’s been infor­ma­tive; and it’s been an eye-opening experience. After this morning’s visit to my Google Reader, I’m come to the con­clu­sion that I’m def­i­nitely a black sheep among the more pop­u­lar per­sonal [...]
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Day 55

By Suburban Wife | Published: October 26, 2007
School — $28.50 One month’s worth of catered hot meals (organic veg­e­tar­ian) for The Daugh­ter at school (2 meals per week for three weeks). Includes main dish, side of fruit, and juice or milk. Costco — $2.75 The Son had pizza and a soda for lunch while I shopped. Costco — $58.09 Today I splurged and indulged The Son’s request for [...]
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Allowance — Yes? No? and Why?

By Suburban Wife | Published: October 25, 2007
[This is a big sub­ject and I have much to say — more than I can orga­nize into a sin­gle blog post. Below is the first of what I intend to be at least a 2-part series on the sub­ject of allowance. This first post is an out­line and expla­na­tion of my the­o­ries and thoughts [...]
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