Day 200: Groceries
Posted on | March 19, 2008 |
The Daughter invited some classmates over for a movie/pizza/sleepover. They arrived starving and fell on the small amount of lasagna leftovers like a plague of locusts. At the same time, they called Dominos and ordered their 5 for $5 deal. The Husband went to pick up the pizzas (he never orders for delivery) and I made a quick run to the grocery store for meal “supplements”. Neither The Husband nor I had pizza but between the five girls, The Son, and The Nephew, they managed to devour all but two or three slices. Since The Husband did the pizza pick-up I don’t know exactly what he spent ($25 and change, I’d assume). In my YNAB budget*, it will be reflected in his monthly cash allowance/withdrawals.
Kroger — $43.49
- bartlett pears — $3.78
- gala apples — $4.02
- navel oranges — $2.40
- organic green pepper — $2.99
- red pepper — $1.99
- loose carrots — $0.86
- green onions — $1.00
- organic spinach — $3.99
- organic baby greens — $3.99
- organic cherry tomatoes — $2.50
- Breyer’s Snickers ice cream — $5.19 (saved $0.50)
- 2 cartons Horizon chocolate milk — $3.19/ea. (saved $0.50/ea.)
- Dole orange/peach/mango juice — $3.34 (saved $0.35)
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March 20th, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
growing up my parent’s always hosted tons of sleepovers. They greatly enjoyed doing so & I’m sure it gave them a piece of mind knowing I was under their roof & rules & not another parent’s. But w/ two teens how do you figure how much gets spent on sleepovers, pizza, movies, per a month. Do you set a budget for it? My daughter is only 4 yrs, but we attend a ton of bday parties. And sleepovers are just a few years away. Any tips on how much to spend on kids parites? Gifts? And the cost of entertaining kids in your home?
March 22nd, 2008 @ 8:19 am
Kristine,
To be perfectly honest, this kind of sleepover/pizza party was a first for us. At least in a very long time. I’d always envisioned having the house that everyone else came to to hang out but for several varied and complicated reasons, life hasn’t worked out that way. I’m hoping that we can host more school-friend get-togethers like this in the future now that kids are getting older and will be able to drive themselves out here to the ‘burbs and not have to depend on parents for rides.
The pizza was “expensive” and I wouldn’t want to do it with too much regularity but I know that most of the time The Daughter hangs out at friends’ houses, they offer home-cooked meals. As much as even that would add to my budget, it’s a price I’d be willing to pay (and gladly) if our house were to become a more regular teen hangout.
Now that The Daughter is 16 and a sophmore, I’m acutely aware of the fact that her time at home is quickly winding down. In two short years, she’ll be packing up and going off to college somewhere — far, far away if she has anything to say about it
Feeding her friends seems like a small price to pay if it buys me the peace of mind of knowing where she is and what she’s doing.
As for gifts, we’ve handled that in different ways over the years. When the kids were younger, I kept a storage bin of appropriate gifts I picked up on sale here and there throughout the year. When a party invitation was received, my kids would go “shopping” in the gift bucket. Later, at about age 10, we gave The Daughter a raise in her allowance and also gave her the responsibility of buying her own gifts for friends.