Day 149: Liquid Gold & Groceries

I only made three pur­chases today.  Two were for liq­uid gold — or, rather, liq­uids that cost a fortune.

Safe­way Gas — $54.72
Most after­noons The Daugh­ter gets a ride straight from school to prac­tice.  Then The Hus­band picks her up and brings her home.  Most of my chauf­feur­ing duties these days involve The Son.  But every once in a while I am called upon to pick up The Daugh­ter from school.  Today was one of those days.

But before I could go very far, I had to tank up because The Tank was empty!  I pumped 20.199 gal­lons @ $2.709/gal.  The odome­ter read 119,478.

Star­bucks — $7.16
On the way home, The Daugh­ter very humbly and sweetly requested a stop at Star­bucks.  Hav­ing no good rea­son to say no, I said yes.  When we got there, I called The Son and asked if he wanted any­thing.  Well, naturally.

So we walked out with one caramel frap­pachino and one vanilla bean frap­pachino.  Liq­uid gold.  The kids assured me they were deli­cious.  And they both remem­bered (with­out any prompts and quite independently) to say “thank you.”

Treats for the kids:  $7.16.  Know­ing they have a good chance of grow­ing up civ­i­lized:  priceless.

Daughter’s School — $200.00
I ran out of Kroger gift cards weeks ago but kept for­get­ting to buy more.  Since I was respon­si­ble for today’s pick-up, I stopped in the office and pur­chased some.  If I remem­ber cor­rectly, the school gets 5% of all gro­cery gift card pur­chases — that would mean $10.00 for the school.  Easy money for an excel­lent cause.

Related posts:

1. $$: Gas, Juice, & Small Loan
2. Day 165: Lunch, Din­ner, Gas, & Music Lessons
3. Day 55
4. $$: Gas in the Tank
5. Day 30