Daily Archives: April 23, 2008

Day 235: Dinner & The Theater, etc

Total Spent Today:  $223.60 Costco — $3.87 Lunch for The Son. He dined on a soda and a Chicken Bake thing while I dealt with the cell phone kiosk per­son and shopped. Costco — $83.97 Capri Sun 100% juice boxes — $7.55 3 boxes of Kashi organic Cin­na­mon Har­vest cereal — $6.49/ea. box of Gold­fish crack­ers — $6.23 house brand choco­late chip cook­ies — $6.49 Taster’s [...]
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Kashi Cereal at Costco — A Cost and Savings Analysis

The sit­u­a­tion:  It always hap­pens this way — just when I’m ready to throw in the towel and can­cel my mem­ber­ship to Costco, they go and add some­thing to their inven­tory that makes me change my mind.  This time it was Kashi cereal.  Kashi Cin­na­mon Har­vest cereal to be exact.  I love this stuff.  And I’m [...]
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Because Some Things Are More Important Than Money

Last night I got all snarky with The Daugh­ter.  She’d com­mit­ted the griev­ous sin of los­ing two gro­cery receipts for shop­ping she’d done at my request and for which she needed reimbursement. Even while I was being the Wicked Witch, I knew I was blow­ing things out of pro­por­tion.  I had a mil­lion excuses — I was [...]
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