Suburban Wife’s Daily Dollar Diary

a financial voyeur’s dream come true: all the intimate details of how, where, and why I spend money

Counting My Blessings: #8

If you’ve missed any of the first six posts (seven blessings) in this theme, you can check them out here:

Blessing #1 — Connection to Nature and Universal Truths
Blessing #2 — The Husband
Blessing #3 — My Health
Blessings #4 and 5 — My Children
Blessing #6 — My Circumstances
Blessing #7 — The Husband’s Health

Today’s blessing is my mom.  [...]

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$$: Gas in the Tank

Total Spent Today: $27.44

Safeway — $27.44
On the way home from church today, the kids and I stopped to tank up The Tank.  I pumped 16.639 gallons at an amazing $1.649 per gallon.  The odometer read 135,584.
I didn’t write a weekly offering check at church this morning because I forgot my checkbook.

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Upcoming Carnival of Family Life

Hi readers!  I am so pleased (and equally terrified) to be hosting the upcoming Carnival of Family Life.
Please be sure to check back in tomorrow to read all of the excellent submissions.
If you’re not familiar with this particular carnival, the Carnival of Family Life is a large, well-established weekly carnival featuring articles about family-related issues.  [...]

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Counting My Blessings: #7

I didn’t post a “Counting My Blessings” post yesterday — I guess because Thanksgiving was over and everyone else had moved on to Black Friday and the big build-up to Christmas.  But it isn’t sitting well with me — leaving off without counting all of my blessings.  So, please bear with me as I continue [...]

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$$: No Spend Day

Total Spent Today: $0.00

Ah, an honest-to-goodness no-spend day 

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$$: Black Friday Edition

Total Spent Today: $100.00

Department of State — $75.00
Postmaster — $25.00
Both of these checks were written at the Post Office this morning where The Daughter and I were filing her application for a passport.

Two things of note in respect to this process:
One, the clerk took The Daughter’s birth certificate and stapled it, along with the second passport photo, together [...]

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$$: Allowances

Total Spent Today: $48.00

Technically today was a no-spend day because allowances were actually doled out earlier this week.  As The Husband is the man with the money, however, I wasn’t party to the allowance payouts.  I learned that both kids had collected their allowances when I reminded them that the month was coming to a close and any [...]

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