Monthly Archives: April 2008

Day 237: Auto Floor Mat Insanity

By Suburban Wife | Published: April 25, 2008
Total Amount Spent: $50.35  Yesterday’s trip to the car wash, fairly expen­sive in it’s own right, got a lit­tle more expen­sive today. This morn­ing, while dri­ving home with my from the clos­est drive-thru Star­bucks win­dow (her cof­fee habit, she paid), I looked down for some rea­son and real­ized that I’d left her passenger-side floor mat at the car wash.  [...]
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Day 236: Lavage, Food, Parking, & Auto

By Suburban Wife | Published: April 24, 2008
Total Spent Today: $211.57  Lavage appoint­ment — $70.00 Kroger — $10.00 I picked up my monthly syn­throid pre­scrip­tion at the pharmacy. Kroger — $32.28 Ban deoder­ant — $2.39 (saved $0.60) 2 car­tons Hori­zon choco­late milk — $3.19/ea. (saved $0.50/ea.) Tos­ti­tos “scoops” corn chips — $3.49 2.33 lbs. Rus­set pota­toes — $2.31 .48 lbs. Toma­toes — $1.44 mini car­rots — $1.99 organic baby romaine let­tuce — $3.00 (saved $0.99) Breyer’s french vanilla [...]
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8 Things I Don’t Buy (a new meme maybe?)

By Suburban Wife | Published: April 24, 2008
I spend a lot of time on this blog enu­mer­at­ing the things I spend money on.  In fact, that’s its main intent and pur­pose of this blog — a daily account­ing of my expenditures. I think you can learn a lot about a per­son and a fam­ily sim­ply by look­ing at how they spend their money. In the same [...]
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Day 235: Dinner & The Theater, etc

By Suburban Wife | Published: April 23, 2008
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

By Suburban Wife | Published: April 23, 2008
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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