Monthly Archives: May 2008

Day 265: Utilities, Groceries, and New Tunes

By Suburban Wife | Published: May 23, 2008
The only out-of-the-house shop­ping I did today was a quick trip to the gro­cery store because we were all out of milk.  The Hus­band paid a cou­ple of util­ity bills today and gave me the receipts so I’ve included them as well.  My final spend­ing of the day was in the form of a late-night iTunes [...]
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Day 264: Returns, T-Shirts, and N2O Cream Charger Cartridges

By Suburban Wife | Published: May 22, 2008
The Con­tainer Store — ($35.31) I returned four items from my shop­ping spree last week: First, the plas­tic lid to stor­age box on coast­ers.  Come on, let’s be real­is­tic here — it will be a mir­a­cle if I can get The Son to actu­ally con­tain his socks and misc stuff in these con­tain­ers to begin with; [...]
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Day 263: Crocs, Lemonade, a Book & Gasoline (ouch!)

By Suburban Wife | Published: May 21, 2008
Total Spent Today: $184.09  I spent nearly the entire day dri­ving.  Ugh.  For as much dri­ving as I did, I actu­ally did very lit­tle shop­ping.  With 4 peo­ple with busy sched­ules, three dri­vers, and two cars, our coor­di­na­tion of vehi­cles and sched­ules is some­times quite complicated. Safe­way — $70.06 After drop­ping The Hus­band off at his office so I [...]
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Day 262: Sushi, Sandals, and Supplies

By Suburban Wife | Published: May 20, 2008
Total Spent Today:  $107.73  Wild Oats — $9.29 The Son needed to go san­dal shop­ping (see below) but after a full, hot morn­ing of run­ning around and play­ing games on the last day of school, he needed a lit­tle refresh­ment before brav­ing the shoe store.  tray of avo­cado roll sushi — $4.75 can of house soda pop — $.79 an Odwalla Straw­berry C Mon­ster [...]
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Day 261: Car Stereo, Nalgene Bottle, & Skirt Hangers (plus incoming $)

By Suburban Wife | Published: May 19, 2008
Total Spent Today: $298.31 Net Spent Today: $243.33 REI — ($50.13) As I men­tioned in yesterday’s post, I col­lected all of our old Nal­gene bot­tles (well, all the ones the kids could find — one of The Daughter’s is still miss­ing) to return for a refund/store credit.  The return process took a cou­ple of min­utes but over­all went very [...]
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