Daily Archives: December 3, 2007

Day 93: No Spend Day*

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 3, 2007
For me, today was a no spend day.  I stayed at home all day clean­ing, fold­ing laun­dry, talk­ing to my mom, blog­ging, and doing frac­tions with The Son. This evening I got all show­ered up and The Hus­band and I went out to din­ner.  That’s what the aster­isk (*) is about. Althought I didn’t spend any money, The Hus­band [...]
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Monday Maintenance: The Golden Rule of Cleaning

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 3, 2007
I know that today’s main­te­nance tip will seem ridicu­lously sim­ple to some.  It’s so sim­ple, in fact, that each time I’ve thought about post­ing it I’ve man­aged to talk myself out of it. But today it occurred to me – to some peo­ple the con­cept of spend­ing less than you earn is so patently obvi­ous they’d never think to include it in the [...]
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Ivory or Gold? Maybe Not. Our Super-Frugal Anniversary Plans

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 3, 2007
Today is our 14th wed­ding anniver­sary.  Accord­ing to var­i­ous web­sites, the tra­di­tional anniver­sary gift for the 14th year is ivory.  The mod­ern or con­tem­po­rary gift is gold. The Hus­band and I are break­ing from tra­di­tion this year — and, no, I’m not talk­ing about gold instead of ivory.  This year we’re break­ing away from our tra­di­tional meth­ods of cel­e­brat­ing [...]
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