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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]