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 for my weekly offering.
Talk about the "latte factor." I don't even drink coffee (or anything, for that matter, other than water) but I still managed to go to Starbucks twice today and spend a total of $13.36! My mom won't drink anything but designer coffee. The Husband drinks nothing but instant. Thus, mom needed to find a Starbucks before church this morning but we were running late so we went to church first, dropped off The Son, and, being who I am, I asked around at church if anyone wanted me to pick up a designer coffee for them while I was out. I got two orders; with my mom's that came to three "shorts" for $4.54.
Then, on the way home, she needed the vente latte she'd passed up earlier because of our tight schedule. Her latte and two chocolate milks for the kids set me back another $8.82. I hate Starbucks!
After church but before Starbucks, we made our weekly stop at Einstein Bros. Bagels for a dozen bucket deal (baker's dozen bagels and 2 tubs of schmear) plus a root beer for The Son -- $14.42.
This afternoon my mom and I ran out to Whole Foods for the ingredients needed for tomorrow's potluck dishes (our annual New Year's Eve evening at the church) plus a few staples we needed to stock up on. I spent $73.89 on:
- quart of buttermilk -- $2.99
- 3 boxes of organic Le Boles lasagna pasta -- $2.49/ea.
- Muir organic tomato sauce -- $1.99
- Muir no salt added organic tomato sauce -- $1.69
- Ah! Laska chocolate sauce -- $4.99
- organic sliced turkey breast -- $5.99
- organic sliced roast beef -- $4.99
- ground beef -- $3.12 (on sale for $1.99/lb!)
- grated parmesean cheese -- $3.49
- mozzarella cheese -- $7.99
- ricotta cheese --$3.99
- green leaf lettuce -- $2.49
- designer "fingerling" tiny potatoes -- $2.99
- scallions -- $0.99
- cucumber -- $1.47
- pears -- $1.77
- granny smith apples -- $6.67
- measuring spoons -- $5.99
- bag credit -- ($0.30)
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Cripes! That better be a lot of apples!
I have a love hate thing for Starbucks. I give them about 25.00 a week… ugh… $100 a month… ARGH… 1200 a year.
It’s pretty sad when you look it like that
Based on your comment, I looked at my post expecting to find a typo. But no, I did spend $6.67 on 5 organic Grannie Smith apples
You’re right, $1,200 per year is a pretty amazing (and depressing figure). But one doesn’t have to have a Starbucks habit to learn something from the “latte factor” concept. I don’t drink coffee but I easily fritter away $1,200 a year on other small, annoyingly unnecessary purchases.