$$: Food, Tuition, and Cell Phones

Posted on | November 20, 2008 |

Total Spent Today: $3,146.52

I enjoyed a nice quiet morning.  The Son and I both slept in and then watched disc 6 of X-Files, Season 4 (ah, the joys of homeschooling).  I did laundry, did some work, and some paperwork.  The Son cleaned the kitchen.

This afternoon The Husband came home and together he and I drove into town for parent/teacher conferences at The Daughter’s high school.  I really don’t know why we bother going.  All of her teachers love her.  Her grades are excellent.  And she’s become as much or more a part of the class as some of the kids who’ve been together since kindergarten.  I probably go to remind her teachers of her diverse and humble (that would be me) background.

This block her class is studying Medieval History (main lesson) and Immunology (track) — plus art and chorus and PE, of course.  They just finished a Quantum Chemistry (main lesson) and Complex Numbers (track) block.  And last weekend she took the PLAN (that’s the preliminary ACT test).  I think the ACT and SAT themselves are taken this Spring.

Which reminds me, The Husband wrote a couple of checks last night that I logged into my YNAB program this morning.

The Daughter’s School — $2,920.00
Our final tuition payment for this calendar year.  I was proud of myself because I already had the necessary funds tucked away in my Daughter: Tuition budget category.  Of course, the actual funds would have been available whether or not I’d gotten the budgeting thing right because The Husband’s in charge of the actual money and he’s always on top of that type of thing.  Thank goodness.

Verizon — $128.96
Another month’s worth of 700 shared minutes between three phones with unlimited text messaging.

On the way home from the conferences, The Husband and I stopped for groceries.

Kroger — $97.56

• Cascadian Farms Purely O’s cereal — $4.99
• Kashi Cinnamon Harvest cereal — $3.79
• Kashi Autumn Wheat cereal — $3.79
• 2 cans of Santa Barbara green olives — $3.99/ea.
• large brick of Kroger medium cheddar — $4.49 (saved $0.50)
• large brick of Kroger colby jack — $4.49 (saved $0.50)
• Best Foods mayonnaise — $3.29
• Hain canola mayonnaise — $5.99
• 1/2 gallon of Horizon chocolate milk — $3.69
• gallon of Horizon 2% milk — $5.19
• Kroger hamburger dill pickles — $3.49 (saved $0.50)
• 2 different Hungry Man frozen dinners — $2.61/ea.
• Rudi’s 100% whole wheat bread — $4.39
• .82# tomatoes — $2.45
• 1.75# Gala apples — $4.01
• Driscol blackberries — $2.50 (saved $2.49)
• Driscol blueberries — $2.50 (saved $2.49)
• Breyer’s chocolate ice cream — $4.99 (saved $0.70)
• Breyer’s vanilla ice cream — $4.99 (saved $0.70)
• Kroger deluxe ice cream — $2.99 (saved $0.50)
• Kroger toilet paper — $7.89

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