Monthly Archives: October 2008

$$: Surrogate Spending & Lessons Learned by a 16-yo

By Suburban Wife | Published: October 27, 2008
It being a Mon­day and me not hav­ing a car at my dis­posal today, I stayed at home and didn’t spend a dime.  At least not directly. The Daugh­ter did a fine job of spend­ing money for me.  To be sure, it was her money to spend in that she has about $350 saved up in [...]
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$$: The Day’s Expenses plus Swim Meet Tips

By Suburban Wife | Published: October 26, 2008
Today The Daugh­ter attended her first swim meet since rejoin­ing a com­pet­i­tive swim team.  She took a 2–1/2 year break from com­pet­i­tive swim­ming and in that time I’d man­aged to for­get both how much I hate swim meets and every­thing I’d learned about what to take with me. As a reminder to myself and per­haps to help [...]
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$$: Groceries, an Odwalla, & “Harvey”

By Suburban Wife | Published: October 25, 2008
The painter showed up with her crew at 7:30 this morn­ing.  Must have been 7 or 8 guys.  We con­firmed the col­ors and where they would all go.  Then she took off, they got to work, and I was stuck home all day answer­ing lit­tle ques­tions here and there and basi­cally just hold­ing down the [...]
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$$: Allowance, Fuel, Dining, & Hot Date!

By Suburban Wife | Published: October 24, 2008
A busy, busy day with but with noth­ing more than the reg­u­lar, expected expen­di­tures of a nor­mal day. Had an appoint­ment with a roofer, logged a cou­ple of vol­un­teer hours at The Son’s home­school co-op pro­gram,  took The Son to a corn-maze out­ing with some friends, and attended the bal­let with The Son.  Lots of dri­ving mixed [...]
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$$: Health & Clothing

By Suburban Wife | Published: October 23, 2008
Com­puter Les­son — $0.00 Another fab­u­lously pro­duc­tive One-to-One com­puter les­son on my iMac at the Apple store.   The $79 (usu­ally $99 but as a home­schooler I get their educator’s dis­count) I spent on that year of One-to-One instruc­tion is unques­tion­ably one of the best val­ues and wis­est pur­chases I’ve ever made. Panda Express — $0.00 For a while The [...]
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