Monthly Archives: December 2007

Day 121: Clothing

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 31, 2007
I actu­ally didn’t spend a penny today.  But The Daugh­ter went shop­ping with my mom and she ended up find­ing a num­ber of items she’d been want­ing to find — and some good bar­gains to boot.  Since her cloth­ing allowance comes in the form of a bud­get cat­e­gory instead of cold hard cash, I did [...]
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Plans and Goals for 2008

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 31, 2007
Tomor­row is the first day of a new year and I’m excited about some of my finan­cial and bud­get­ing goals and resolutions. Goals: YNAB Bud­get Decem­ber marks the third full month of using my YNAB Pro Bud­get­ing Soft­ware* and I’m excited to get a fresh new start tomor­row.  Instead of rolling over my 2007 data into 2008, The Hus­band [...]
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Maintenance Monday: Your Couch and Spare Change

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 31, 2007
Sorry for the late post­ing today — I’d meant to post my Main­te­nance Mon­day arti­cle ear­lier in the day but I got tied with with my lasagna and iced apple cake. If you’re new to my blog, Main­te­nance Mon­day is a reg­u­lar “col­umn” of sorts in which I share a main­te­nance tip.  I am of the “qual­ity, [...]
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Day 120: Food and Charity

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 30, 2007
My mom’s here for a week-long visit.  It’s going to take a ton of self-discipline on my part to keep from spend­ing money I wouldn’t oth­er­wise spend.  My mom’s a shop-a-holic and a bad influ­ence — even more so on The Daugh­ter than on me.  I wrote a check to my Church — $15.00 [...]
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Day 119: Fourth No-Spend Day This Week

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 29, 2007
I spent the whole day (well, on and off) clean­ing the house get­ting ready for my mom to come for a visit.  I had meant to get out and pick up another pack­age of mouse-traps but just couldn’t bring myself to ven­ture out into the frozen, snowy world   So I ended up hav­ing [...]
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