Daily Archives: November 25, 2007

Day 85: A Wall, Kitchen Utensils, Soap, and Pizza

Our new retain­ing wall has been poured and is cur­ing as we speak — com­plete with hand­prints of The Daugh­ter, The Son, and myself.  Today’s labor cost me $100 plus a few slices of pie and two glasses of milk ;-) After all the cement was mixed and the wall poured, we ended up with three extra bags of [...]
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Why the Cook Quit or A Modern Jack Sprat Tale

In the past two months that I’ve been blog­ging, I’ve also been read­ing a lot of PF blogs.  I’ve noticed that the gro­cery bill is almost uni­ver­sally the first bud­get cat­e­gory tar­geted by peo­ple want­ing to tighten the bud­get belt.  The Hus­band and I have dis­cussed this obser­va­tion and his take is that in sit­u­a­tions of deep con­sumer debt, the gro­cery [...]
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Sales on Wagglepop

Wow, things are pop­ping at Wag­gle­pop!  I’ve had 6 sales in Novem­ber alone — two of them were for mul­ti­ple items.  I have no idea of why things have picked up in my Wag­gle­pop store but I’m cer­tainly not going to com­plain.  Of course, this month’s $300 worth of sales can’t even begin to com­pare to [...]
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