Monthly Archives: December 2007

Day 118: Groceries

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 28, 2007
Today I fig­ured that as long as I’d done all that work to dig out The Tank last night, I might as well run to Kroger and replen­ish our milk sup­ply  This pur­chase wiped out the very last of my $200. worth of Kroger gift cards I bought from The Daughter’s school just before [...]
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Day 117: Another No-Spend Day

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 27, 2007
It snowed and snowed and snowed.  All day long.  We’ve run out of milk, choco­late milk, and tor­tillas — but none of those were worth going out into the snow and cold for. Well, I really wanted milk and might have been will­ing to brave the snow and cold to go get some.  But I def­i­nitely didn’t [...]
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Day 116: Another No Spend Day

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 26, 2007
I didn’t leave the house and I didn’t spend a dime!     The per­fect day, in my book.
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Day 115: Christmas Day charity donation

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 25, 2007
Merry Christ­mas, everyone! Last night was the first time since hav­ing chil­dren that I fin­ished my Santa chores early enough, and with enough energy to spare, to attend the mid­night ser­vice at church.  It was beau­ti­ful and worth every minute of lost sleep.  I got home at about 1:30am and the roads were clear and the [...]
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Day 114: Groceries Galore!

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 24, 2007
Christ­mas eve and The Daugh­ter and I ran to the library and then went gro­cery shop­ping.  We took only one trip to the gro­cery store but we ended up going through the check­out line a full three times! Does any­one else spend weeks shop­ping and feel like they’ve got­ten way more than enough only to look at it [...]
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