Day 124: Gifts and Office/School Supplies

Posted on | January 3, 2008 |

Today involved a ton of running around — many, many miles on the car and mucho time spent sitting on my ever-expanding rear-end.  Days like these leave me feeling exhausted and frustrated.

After practice at noon, we (my mom, The Daughter, and I) stopped by Office Depot where I spent $24.29.  I needed an expandable check file for the 2007 receipts I need to keep ($5.99).  The Daughter needed a new 5-subject notebook before school starts again on Monday ($7.99).  She also picked up a pack of glue pens ($3.29), and a fun ballpoint pen ($0.99).  Then I added a small purse-sized bottle of Advil ($2.29) and two tins of Danish Butter cookies on sale for $1.00 per tin to the pile.  I can’t eat the cookies but the family will and I can serve them tomorrow night to my study group.

My other two purchases were rather whimsical.  At this morning’s practice, I was joking around with the team captain.  She always hits The Daughter up for water during practice.  Turns out she doesn’t have her own water bottle.  She could, undoubtedly, afford her own.  But she’s been so generous with her time and spirit with the whole team, I thought it would be fun to give her one — stuffed with candies, naturally, as a little “thank you.”  So, after practice and after dropping The Daughter at the house, my mom and I ran down to REI and picked up a red nalgene water bottle — $9.18.

Then we stopped at Walgreens where I spent $6.49 on a bag of Hersey’s almond Kisses ($2.00), a bag of Hersey’s Hugs ($2.99), and a bag of red, pink, and white M&M’s ($3.29).  The Hersey’s were on sale so I saved $0.99 plus there were two manufacturer’s coupons for $1.00 each so I saved a total of $2.99.  I poured all of the candy into the bottle – it held all of the Hersey’s candies plus nearly all of the M&M’s.  I dropped the bottle off, with The Daughter (more driving), at a team-mate’s house — they decided to have a team sleep-over/party before school starts again and the rigors of trigonometry (for the sophmores, at least) and research start demanding all of their extra time and energy.

edited 1/5/08:  I forgot to log the $2.50 I spent on parking on campus during The Daughter’s 2-hour practice.

Related Posts for Further Reading

• Day 244: More Gifts from NYC
• Day 243: Gift Shopping in The Big Apple
• Day 218: Food, Parking, and a Shaving Kit
• Day 203: Duct Tape, Parking, Food, Easter, Clothes
• Day 161: Gifts, Gas, Groceries, Art Supplies & A Clean Car
• Addendum to November 11 Spending

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