Day 226: Finally, a No-Spend Day

Just yes­ter­day I was lament­ing how long it had been since I’d had a no-spend day.  I fully expected to spend today so I was sur­prised when I sat down tonight and real­ized I hadn’t spent a penny.

There are a cou­ple of items we need from the gro­cery store and I really should have gone but it didn’t happen.

Also, The Daugh­ter and I had a date to go work­out at the local rec cen­ter after school today.  I fig­ured I’d have to refill a punch card — either hers or mine or maybe both.  Sure enough, the front desk clerk con­firmed that I was all out of pre­paid vis­its but then offered to take two vis­its off The Daughter’s record.  I gave no argu­ment — espe­cially because she qual­i­fies for the stu­dent prices whereas I have to pay adult prices.  In effect, I got in for the stu­dent rate.

The last expense I expected today was the back deck which I’m hav­ing repaired and refin­ished.  If the job had been fin­ished today, I would have had to pay the remain­ing bal­ance on the con­tract.  But the job’s going to take an extra day because he had to replace the bal­lis­ters on one whole side of the deck — where we took out a shed last year and the bal­lis­ters were all cut short to sit on top of the shed roof.  Any­way, the con­trac­tor was work­ing alone so I ended up spend­ing 4–1/2 hours out there help­ing out (and mak­ing sure he did the job right).  Even with my help, he’ll need a third day to fin­ish the job.

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On the sub­ject of no-spend days, I feel quite silly for mak­ing a big deal about no-spends days — or the lack of them.  I don’t know about you but I don’t spend any more or less money over­all in a month just because I had more or less no-spend days.  The money I didn’t spend today will cer­tainly get spent tomor­row — or the day after.

What do you think?  Do you see a direct cor­re­la­tion between the num­ber of no-spend days and your monthly spend­ing?  Or is a no-spend day just a delay of the inevitable?

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