Obama for America -- $10.00
What is this, my third or fourth donation? I've been meaning to donate again for the last few months but never seem to get around to it. I know it will never happen, but I threw my $10 into Obama's pot so I'd have a chance at his latest "dinner with Obama" event. How cool would that be?
Vitamin Cottage -- $5.28
A gallon of Horizon organic 2% milk. We needed other groceries but The Daughter wanted to do the shopping so I ran out and bought the milk I needed for breakfast.
Kroger -- $56.42 (on a Gift Card)
- Meadow Gold buttermilk -- $1.99
- Horizon chocolate milk -- $3.19 (saved $0.50)
- Kroger medium cheddar -- $4.50 (saved $0.19)
- Hillshire Farms sliced smoked ham -- $3.50 (saved $0.49)
- Hillshire Farms sliced turkey -- $3.50 (saved $0.49)
- tomatoes -- $4.59
- strawberries -- $3.99
- organic lettuce -- $3.99
- organic spinach -- $2.50 (saved $1.49)
- 7 Pria energy bars -- $0.89/ea. (saved $0.10/ea.)
- Gillette satin saving cream -- $2.29 (saved $0.07) [for The Daughter]
- Keebler Club crackers -- $3.99 (saved $0.50)
- Hidden Valley cereal -- $4.29
- Mission frozen burrito -- $2.79
- package of colored paper -- $3.99 [for The Daughter]
I'm really digging this "newly licensed teen" thing. Right now we're keeping her to errands on this side of town. Today she ventured to the public library and the grocery store. I could get used to having someone eager to run errands leaving me at home to do laundry or read or ... just not having to leave.
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I am in two mnds as to whether I am looking forward to my children being able to help me out. It will be great to have the help…but they will probably want paying for it!
Pardon me for being so blunt, Rachel, but if your kids expect you to pay them to help you out, you’re doing something wrong. In my Allowance — Yes? No? and Why? post, I address my thoughts on paying children to do chores (I’m against it) and I think your point highlights perfectly my reasons why.
My kids have been raised to believe that they help me because that is what is expected of them. It’s simply what family does. They do not help me as a personal favor or because they expect a favor in return.
Last week when The Daughter got her license, there was no question in anyone’s mind that she’s just earned a huge new priviledge. And with priviledges come responsibilities. Right now, The Daughter considers running errands fun. I intend to prolong that way of thinking as long as possible. But when it stops being fun and starts being a chore? Well, too darned bad. She’ll be expected to do it anyway. I say, suck it up and live up to your responsiblities. After all, I paid for the driver’s ed class. I bought the car. I pay the insurance and the gas and the maintenance on the car. Heck, I even paid the fees for her permit and her license.
Sorry to pick on you, Rachel, but thanks for the opportunity to emphasize what I think is a very important point — as parents of young children it’s important to consider future implications of our actions and parenting decisions. It might be cute to pay a 2yo a penny or two for performing a task but will it be so cute when that 2yo becomes a 12yo and pennies are no longer acceptable tender?