Monthly Archives: January 2008

Day 147: Food, Food, and More Food

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 26, 2008
Bas­ket­ball.  Most of the day today was ded­i­cated to bas­ket­ball.  And food. ~ o o o O o o o ~ First I had to “bribe” The Son to come to the game and work concessions/admissions.  I promised him lunch. Good Times — $7.10 Did you know that Good Times uses Cole­man all-natural beef?  Did you know that they’re much more expen­sive [...]
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Day 146: A No-Spend Day — or Was It?

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 25, 2008
Ah.  An honest-to-goodness no-spend day.  In other words, this wasn’t a delayed-spending no-spend day.  I had no press­ing errands and no impend­ing expenses that were sim­ply put off for another day. ~ o o O o o ~ But is it really pos­si­ble to have a no-spend day?  A day on which you don’t spend a sin­gle penny?  I would [...]
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Day 145: more Health Care

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 24, 2008
Alter­na­tive Care & Sup­ple­ments — $140.46 Another Lavage ses­sion (aka colon hydrother­apy, aka colonic).  My IBS is flar­ing; I’m in a bad insom­nia cycle; my fibro pain is increas­ing.  I’m try­ing to take care of myself, as best I can.  I’m hop­ing that these addi­tional sup­ple­ments will pro­duce some good results. Speech Ther­apy — $60.00 Another speech ther­apy [...]
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Day 144: Wendy’s, Lessons, & Clothes

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 23, 2008
Cello Teacher — $105.00 Paid for four 45-minute lessons.  This will take us into the first week of February.  Wendy’s — $4.08 Din­ner for The Son con­sisted of two burg­ers and a medium root beer.  Kohl’s — $32.27 While I was busy with A Boy and His Cello duty, The Hus­band had to pick up The Daugh­ter.  She has a [...]
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Kids & Money: A 15-yo’s Financials

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 23, 2008
To my reg­u­lar read­ers or those read­ing through my posts in a chrono­log­i­cal man­ner, I apol­o­gize for not fol­low­ing a more lin­ear path when dis­cussing how I’ve han­dled my approach to chil­dren and finances.  Events hap­pened recently to bring our cur­rent finan­cial poli­cies for The Daugh­ter to the fore­front of my think­ing.  I thought, too, [...]
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