Woot -- $19.99
My first-ever Woot purchase. I usually start out my on-line day by checking out the daily Woot deal but I've never seriously been tempted to buy anything until today. This morning's deal was a Tuesday 2-fer pack of Black & Decker CP120B Backup Batteries. The purchase price was $14.99 with $5 shipping.
These battery packs look really cool -- you plug them in at home to charge them. Then, carry one with you if you're traveling or out and about. The packs can then be used to power and recharge any of your small electronic widgets -- cell phone, digital camera, iPod, etc. In effect, it's a pocket-sized, free-standing electrical outlet where you can power and/or recharge electronic equipment.
Safeway Gas -- $49.59
My mom's car is still in town. She's gone but her car is still here. We're in the process of making plans for driving it out East -- probably sometime in May. Until then, I'm enjoying driving it around town on my errands. It doesn't get great gas mileage but it gets about twice the mpg that The Tank gets. I pumped 16.053 gallons at $3.089 per gallon.
Costco -- $16.36
A hardback copy of John Grisham's latest novel, The Appeal. This is a book that The Son had expressed an interest in. We put a hold request on it from the library but he's number 532 of 609 holds so we've been thinking he wouldn't get a copy of it anytime soon.
On the way home from taking The Son to class this morning, I stopped by Costco quickly to talk to the guy at the Verizon kiosk. On my way out of the store, my eye landed on the book and it occured to me to pick up a copy. I'd just finished making a lavage (colonic) appointment for him and I knew he was going to hate it. I figured the book would give him something to look forward to this evening.
Lavage session -- $170.87
The Son's lavage session. Unfortunately, he inherited my digestive weaknesses. He's always had chronic constipation issues. Interestingly, I've read that Asperger's people very commonly have gut problems. The Son doesn't qualify as Asperger's but he does have many Asperger's-like symptoms. He's a quirky kid. Make that a quirky kid with gut troubles.
Along with the lavage session, I also bought some supplements that hopefully will help alleviate some or even most of his chronic gut troubles. One of the supplements is a supplement I also take but was starting to get a little low on. The others are things that will help him that I can't or don't take myself.
The session was predictably awful for The Son but it did give him some relief. He's not feeling too fabulous right now but I hope he'll feel better tomorrow. He needs to go back next week for another session. He informed me today, after leaving the office, that it was going to take a bigger bribe to get him back in that office than the one I offered today (the book, above, and the Starbucks, below).
Starbucks -- $3.55
A medium vanilla bean frappachino for The Son as part of his bribe (see above).
And now for the bad news....
The insurance agent's office called today with the quote for adding The Daughter on to our auto insurance policy as a new driver -- almost $1,000 every 6 months!! Apparently that does not reflect her good student discount because they have to write the policy before they can discount it. Me thinks perhaps it's time to do a little insurance comparison shopping. Those of you with teen drivers, is that in line with what you're paying?
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I’m not a teen driver (technically, anymore) but one of my best friends is — and she only pays $89/month for her insurance. Well, she did when she started, it’s down to $54/month I think.
I had no idea it was so expense to add a child onto your motor insurance. Perhaps I should buy mine a car and let them pay for the insurance — it might work out cheaper!